Dr. Albert Smith
Therapist focused on family and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Albert
Dr. Albert Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people find hope during hard times. He brings 25 years of experience to sessions and aims to make the choice to reach out feel respected and practical.
He uses a range of therapy styles and works with individuals on stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, bipolar concerns, and relationship problems. Parenting and family-related issues are a frequent focus, including blended family challenges and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
He also addresses intimacy, sexual culture matters such as BDSM and kink, and issues tied to attachment and abandonment. Dr. Smith favors straightforward conversations that get to what matters most.
He helps people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and set small, manageable goals. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and testing clearer ways to respond. His background includes a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and a doctorate in psychology.
He holds an LMFT license in Texas and has spent many years working with individuals, couples, and families in clinical settings. People who choose his help typically want practical steps as well as space to talk about hard feelings. He works collaboratively to choose approaches that fit each person’s goals and life situation.
How his approaches guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions. This style is helpful for building trust and exploring parenting or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses straightforward steps to test new behaviors and reduce patterns that increase anxiety, depression, or addictive behavior. CBT can be useful for goal-focused work like managing stress or mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Dr. Smith will talk with clients about goals and preferences and will recommend methods that fit those needs. That choice happens together, and plans can change as progress gets underway.
Because session formats are not listed here, confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy life easier - it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins between commitments, and let people join from different locations when needed. Licensed professionals often use this flexibility to keep continuity during big life changes and to help people follow through on short-term goals.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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