Paige Smart
Compassionate, practical therapy for family stress
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Washington, Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Paige
Paige Smart is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional challenges. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for adults who are juggling relationships, work, and life changes. Sessions are designed to feel warm and nonjudgmental so people can speak honestly about what’s hard for them.
Paige brings six years of clinical experience and practical help to each conversation.
Background and approach
She uses plain talk and practical tools to reduce overwhelming feelings like anxiety, depression, panic, and mood swings. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction, and struggles around intimacy, self-esteem, and communication. Topics such as money stress, isolation, and forgiveness are also part of her work when they affect day-to-day functioning.
In sessions Paige blends several methods to meet each person where they are. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build trust, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change thinking and behavior patterns, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma work. Mindfulness techniques and Motivational Interviewing are used to increase awareness and momentum toward goals.
Her approach begins by looking at biological, psychological, and social factors that shape a person’s situation. From there she and the client create a short-term plan with clear steps to try between visits. Communication is collaborative; clients help shape priorities and methods.
Paige holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices from Missouri. She offers sessions in English and uses video, phone, live chat, and messaging to connect with people who prefer online care.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust, so the therapist offers a welcoming, nonjudgmental space where clients talk through their concerns and set goals together. This approach helps when people need support sorting priorities and feeling understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear, practical exercises to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that lead to anxiety or low mood. Online sessions can include homework and real-time coaching to apply these skills between visits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, brings skills for regulating intense emotions and improving communication. In an online format, a therapist can teach breathing, grounding, and interpersonal techniques and practice them during sessions.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend approaches to try. This is a collaborative process with adjustments over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, follow up between appointments, and access support from home or work. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, troubleshoot setbacks, and track progress without requiring travel.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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