Kristen Smith, LMHC

Kristen Smith is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 27 years of professional experience. She focuses on issues such as addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem. Kristen also works with concerns related to ADHD, grief, parenting strain, and codependency.

Her style centers on listening and helping people name what is hard. She treats clients as the expert on their life and helps them use their strengths to address patterns that cause pain. Conversations are straightforward and practical, with attention to feelings and concrete steps people can try between sessions.

Kristen draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming or when people need tools for regulating intense reactions. Sessions often mix talking through situations with practicing small changes.

People turn to her for help setting limits, coping with the ups and downs of recovery, and managing burnout or compassion fatigue. She helps people who struggle with people-pleasing, boundary problems, or living around another person’s moods or substance use to see choices more clearly and try different responses.

Kristen aims to make the work doable alongside everyday life. She helps break big issues into small steps and checks in on what does and does not work. The focus is on skills that carry into daily routines and on recognizing progress even when change feels slow.

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