Theresa Smith, LPC

Theresa Smith is an LPC with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and major life shifts like career changes and relationship loss. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand each person’s situation before guiding next steps.

Theresa began her work supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, then expanded to help men facing emotional challenges and people impacted by substance use. That long exposure to trauma and addiction shaped how she addresses anger, grief, shame, and attachment wounds. Much of her later work included drug court and private substance abuse counseling, where she supported recovery and relapse prevention.

Her approach centers on the person rather than a label. She uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral strategies and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name patterns and try different choices. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to help clients understand relationship difficulties and emotional distance.

Theresa includes spiritual preferences when clients request them. She is a Christian and will incorporate Biblical counseling and prayer at the client’s direction. Otherwise she keeps sessions focused on practical tools for managing mood, coping with life changes, and improving communication.

Theresa works in Oklahoma and speaks English. She has 20 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor and aims to help clients find clearer direction, healthier routines, and better emotional balance.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move a person toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses straightforward skills for changing unhelpful thinking and building new routines, which is useful for mood, anxiety, and relapse prevention.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect present patterns. It helps people make sense of intimacy problems, abandonment fears, and communication difficulties so they can try different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. This may mean combining techniques from different approaches and adjusting over time based on what helps.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm available session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online options can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can translate ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused work into conversation, exercises, and home practice that fit virtual sessions, while keeping the process collaborative and goal focused.