Beth Anne Smith , LPC

Beth Anne Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with eight years of experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked with individuals facing depression, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, identity and LGBT issues, career challenges, chronic pain, and eating disorders. In addition to these areas, she has extensive experience helping people who struggle with substance addictions, including heroin, prescription pain pills, cocaine, methamphetamines, benzodiazepines, and alcohol.

As someone who is hard of hearing, she brings both personal and professional insight to working with disability-related concerns, and she is attuned to the unique ways disability can affect daily life and coping. Her therapeutic style is approachable and interactive, grounded in collaboration so that the client and therapist work together to define goals and measure progress. She treats people with respect, care, and compassion and avoids stigmatizing labels.

Her work draws on a blend of counseling methods, including solution-focused techniques, client-centered (person-centered) principles, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practices. Sessions and treatment plans are tailored to each person so the structure, content, and pace reflect individual needs and goals. She welcomes those who are ready to take steps toward change and supports clients through the process of setting and achieving meaningful improvements.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Client-centered therapy, often called person-centered therapy, focuses on creating a collaborative relationship in which the therapist listens carefully and helps clients explore their values, goals, and strengths. This approach can be especially helpful for relationship concerns, identity questions, and building self-esteem.

Mindfulness therapy teaches practical ways to pay attention to present-moment experience without judgment, using exercises that can reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress, anxiety, and mood difficulties. Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people resolve ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change, which is often useful for addiction, lifestyle shifts, and goal-directed work.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust techniques and the pace of work as progress unfolds.

Online sessions with licensed professionals offer flexible ways to engage in therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, access care from different locations within the therapist's service area, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable for each individual.