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01About Marie
Dr. Marie Smith greets people with patience and plain language. She focuses on helping individuals who are under stress, facing anxiety or depression, managing addiction, grieving, or trying to sort out relationship and career concerns.
She has 25 years of counseling experience and uses practical, down-to-earth methods that people can use between sessions. She draws on a long history in schools, hospitals, clinics, and correctional settings. That experience shaped how she looks at life changes and milestones, from school and career shifts to major relationship transitions.
Background and approach
She says understanding past steps helps clarify what feels hard today. Her work includes attention to trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment concerns, and challenges related to adoption, foster care, or developmental differences such as autism. She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, discrimination, impulsivity, and intellectual disability issues.
Dr. Smith uses client-centered approaches alongside skills-based methods. Sessions often focus on concrete coping skills, problem solving, and ways to manage strong emotions.
She also offers trauma-focused care when people need help processing difficult events. She holds the credential LMHC, and is also an LPC in Louisiana, and brings a background as an educator and administrator to clinical work. That background informs how she helps people prepare for school, work, and life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online in several formats. People who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their timing.
02Credentials
- LPC (Louisiana)
- License 1642 · expires June 2026
- LMHC (Florida)
- License MH20341 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1295250272 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Marie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Marie names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Marie names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist offers empathic support and follows the client’s concerns so people feel heard and can decide what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving tolerance for distress, and strengthening relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences in early sessions and suggest methods that fit the concern and how the person likes to work. Plans can shift as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online sessions let people connect from different locations using video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, school, caregiving, and other obligations while still using the therapeutic approaches described above.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of struggles does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma and relationship or career concerns. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment issues, and caregiver stress.
What is her general therapy style?
She combines client-centered listening with practical skills training. Sessions often include coping tools, problem solving, and emotion regulation practice.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 25 years of counseling experience across schools, hospitals, clinics, and correctional settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed as an LMHC and an LPC and practices in Louisiana.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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