Robert "Scotty" Smittle
Practical, person-focused counseling for families
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robert
Robert "Scotty" Smittle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arkansas. He has 15 years of experience working in counseling and approaches sessions with a straightforward, person-to-person style. Parents often look to him for practical guidance around family and parenting challenges as well as relationship and personal concerns.
Scotty favors a client-centered way of working that starts with listening and building trust. He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
In sessions he combines these approaches to tailor steps that suit each family's situation. His background includes experience with adults and children, and he has worked with individuals, couples, and families. He has supported people dealing with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, anxiety and stress, and issues around addiction and grief.
He also addresses parenting topics, intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, and adjustment to life changes. Additional areas Scotty has focused on include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family dynamics, and communication or control problems within relationships. He can work with concerns around eating, body image, codependency, and emotion regulation such as anger or dissociation.
Sessions are practical and conversational. He aims to help parents and partners identify clear steps to try at home, track how those steps go, and adjust the plan as needed. The emphasis is on steady, usable progress rather than abstract theory.
How his approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person first and creating a safe, respectful space to talk. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes listening, reflecting, and helping clients clarify what matters most to them so practical goals can follow.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online CBT sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments, and using homework to test what changes help with anxiety, low mood, or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person or parent to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. That shared decision helps shape session pacing and the types of exercises used between meetings.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family lives. These options allow regular check-ins, quick problem-solving messages between sessions, and flexible scheduling when in-person visits are difficult. The focus is on practical support that adapts to a family's routine and needs.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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