Luciana Smalls, LPC

Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings nine years of counseling experience and long experience in human services to sessions. Her work emphasizes practical skills and steady support for everyday problems.

Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive-behavioral techniques. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, Imago relationship ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor sessions to each person. Luciana aims to help people build coping skills, change unhelpful thoughts, and improve communication.

She commonly addresses relationship and parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. Other areas she helps with include addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, anger, career shifts, ADHD, and body image. She respects different cultures, sexual orientations, and identities while creating treatment plans based on individual goals.

Sessions are described as nurturing yet challenging, with a focus on skills people can use outside of therapy. Luciana works with clients to set clear goals and practices tools such as mindfulness and behavioral strategies in session. The aim is steady, achievable change rather than quick fixes.

She encourages people facing fear or major life changes to take the next step toward their goals. New clients begin by sharing their main concerns and then building a plan that fits their needs and daily life.

How approaches like CBT and Client-Centered Care work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns. It emphasizes understanding the client's perspective and helping them set their own goals, which is useful for relationship and parenting issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance and can be helpful for strong anger, impulsivity, and intense emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and new challenges arise.

Confirm current session options before booking. When online sessions are available, they can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Online work also lets people practice skills in familiar routines and bring real-life examples to sessions. Ask about formats when you start the intake so the plan fits your schedule and needs.