Alba Perez Smith
Compassionate LICSW for life and identity challenges
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alba
Alba Perez Smith is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and mood concerns. She speaks English and Spanish and works with a wide range of life and identity issues, including LGBT matters, trauma, and self-esteem. Alba writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
She approaches sessions as a partnership. Alba treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on their strengths.
Background and approach
That can mean learning coping skills for sleep and anger, talking through career worries, or addressing compassion fatigue and burnout. Her practice also supports people dealing with family-related challenges and transitions. She has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, family of origin problems, and caregiver stress.
Alba offers straightforward strategies to improve communication and reduce conflict. Alba brings three years of clinical experience as an LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She combines practical techniques with steady emotional support to help people take small steps toward change.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be adapted to an individual's pace and needs. People interested in starting work with Alba are guided through a simple matching and scheduling process. She emphasizes collaboration and clear goals, aiming to make each session useful and relevant to daily life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Alba uses clear, evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and handle life changes. One common approach focuses on learning practical coping skills for anxiety, sleep problems, and anger. These are brief, teachable tools people can try between sessions to feel steadier day to day. Another approach targets trauma and identity-related stress by helping people tell their story at a safe pace and build skills to reduce reactivity and shame.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alba will work with each person to figure out what methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they set small, measurable goals and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other obligations. They also allow follow-up and support between meetings so tools learned in sessions can be applied in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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