Jeffrey Smart
Compassionate counseling focused on real-life challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Smart is a licensed professional clinical counselor with six years of practice in Ohio. He focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, grief, anger, and life transitions. Jeffrey emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth style that centers on each person’s goals and values.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative, with clear next steps for coping and change. He draws on client-centered and existential ideas to keep the work personal and meaningful.
Background and approach
That means conversations are guided by what matters to the client rather than a strict checklist. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used when patterns of thinking or behavior are getting in the way. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people tolerate hard feelings while committing to values-based action.
Jeffrey also has experience addressing relationship issues, addictions, bipolar disorder, and caregiver stress. He works with a wide range of life challenges including career shifts, illness, blended family dynamics, and grief. His background includes a focus on communication, commitment concerns, and coping with major life events.
He provides online options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Sessions are conducted in English and follow the Ohio LPCC credential E.1800894-SUPV. People who prefer a conversational, goal-oriented approach often find his style a practical fit.
He frames problems as opportunities to clarify values and take small, manageable steps toward change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Jeffrey uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings while still taking steps that match their values. This approach can be useful for stress, anxiety, and navigating major life changes. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to practice small, concrete changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Jeffrey will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then tailor techniques from different approaches as needed. The work is collaborative - the therapist suggests options and the client helps decide what feels right.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. These formats make it easier to attend from home or during busy weeks, and they allow continuity of care when in-person meetings are difficult. For many people the practical flexibility of online therapy helps keep momentum between sessions while they work toward their goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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