- Client-centered care
- Goal focused methods
- Adoption and foster care
About Katina
Katina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, trauma, and parenting challenges. She also supports those dealing with grief, relationship and family problems, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and issues connected to adoption and foster care. She works with teens and adults and uses straightforward, practical strategies in sessions.
Katina draws on six years as an LPC and a longer history of social services work. Her background includes experience with children, juveniles, older adults, and people with disabilities, plus work related to adoption and foster care and substance abuse. She has provided crisis intervention and support to survivors of domestic violence.
Her style is client-centered. She focuses on building rapport quickly and offering tools people can use between sessions. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing coping skills, and setting small, doable goals to improve daily life.
She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing when meeting with teens and adults. Mindfulness practices are also part of her approach when helpful for stress and emotional regulation.
Katina aims to strengthen thinking patterns and instill hope for change. She encourages clear, practical steps rather than long talks with no direction. People who prefer a caring, goal-oriented counselor may find her approach helpful.
How certain approaches work in online counseling
Katina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small parts so someone can try different actions and see what helps, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past harm. This approach helps people process traumatic memories and learn coping skills to reduce the ways trauma shapes everyday reactions. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to support people who want to change behaviors like substance use by strengthening their own reasons for change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and decide together which methods to use. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually fits the person's life.
The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove the commute from appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, trauma-focused work, and motivational interviewing to remote sessions so people can keep progress moving even when meeting from different locations.
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Experience
6+ years
Credentials
Louisiana
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and issues related to adoption and foster care.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and practical. She focuses on building rapport, setting small goals, and teaching tools to use between sessions.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has six years as an LPC and earlier work across social services, including time supporting children, older adults, people with disabilities, and those involved in adoption and foster care.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Louisiana.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule based on the therapist's availability.