Satara Marie Smith, LPC

Satara Marie Smith is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas who brings a trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach to therapy. With three years of clinical experience, she supports young adults, men, and women who are working through trauma, relationship challenges, anxiety, and major life transitions. As an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - she focuses on helping clients untangle the stories that keep them stuck so they can reclaim a more balanced present.

Using Narrative Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Satara creates space for clients to explore how past experiences shaped their current patterns and to develop practical skills for managing worry, stress, and difficult emotions. Her work emphasizes compassion, resilience, and gradual progress, allowing clients to move at a pace that feels manageable while building tools for daily life. She also addresses issues such as caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, postpartum concerns, and forgiveness work within a culturally sensitive framework.

Whether clients are healing from past abuse, navigating infidelity or communication struggles, or facing the uncertainty of life changes, Satara partners with them to build coping strategies, strengthen self-compassion, and foster authentic growth. Her practice centers on collaboration and respectful support aimed at helping each person create a life that feels more grounded and true to who they are.

Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care

Narrative Therapy helps clients separate themselves from the stories they tell about their lives. By examining and re-authoring personal narratives, this approach supports healing from past trauma and shifting unhelpful relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, stress, and mood struggles, offering practical skills for coping with daily challenges. Satara also practices from a trauma-informed perspective that emphasizes safety, pacing, and respect for each person’s lived experience.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Satara works alongside clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time so therapy fits each individual’s pace and priorities. Together the therapist and client choose methods that feel most helpful for the issues at hand.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, over the phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging - making it easier to access care around work, family, and other commitments. For many people, remote sessions reduce logistical barriers and allow consistent work on skills and healing with licensed professionals and therapists who are attuned to their goals.