Jerra Smith
Compassionate counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jerra
Jerra Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Mississippi. She draws on three years of clinical experience and focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her tone is straightforward and respectful.
She aims to help clients make concrete changes in day-to-day life. Jerra meets people where they are and tailors each session to current needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness tools to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build regular coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be collaborative - she listens first, then suggests steps that feel doable. Clients can expect clear, goal-oriented conversations that turn into small experiments between sessions. That may mean trying new ways to handle stress at work, practicing short grounding exercises for anxiety, or setting limits in difficult relationships.
She also supports people working through grief, anger, and changes like pregnancy or shifts at home. Her background includes work with substance use concerns and co-occurring problems where addiction intersects with mood or family issues. She gives priority to communication skills and reducing isolation.
When needed, Jerra discusses forgiveness, guilt, and rebuilding trust in relationships in plain language and with practical next steps. Parents and caregivers looking for help with family-related stress will find a practical approach that focuses on problem-solving and small, sustainable shifts. She encourages people to bring specific situations to sessions so they can practice new responses and notice gradual progress.
Online approaches that build skills and calm
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice patterns of thinking that make problems worse and then replace them with more helpful responses. It is often used for anxiety, depression, workplace stress, and problems that involve unhelpful thinking patterns.Mindfulness Therapy focuses on simple present-moment practices to reduce reactivity and increase awareness of feelings and bodily signals. It can help with stress, anger, and coping during life changes by teaching short exercises to use during hard moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jerra will talk with clients about goals and preferences and adapt techniques from CBT and mindfulness as needed. That collaborative process helps decide which strategies to prioritize in sessions and in between meetings.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and let clients choose the format that feels most comfortable for practicing skills. Licensed professionals can use this variety of session types to support steady progress without requiring travel.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
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