Liz Smith, LMHC, LCPC

Liz Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with ten years of practice. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and related concerns such as grief, relationship strain, and sleep problems. Sessions are conducted in English and Spanish and she practices from Florida.

Her style centers on client-centered therapy - she listens first and helps people make their own decisions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and mindfulness approaches as tools when they fit a person’s needs. Treatment can be solution-focused when a client prefers practical steps.

Liz often works with people coping with attachment or abandonment concerns, body image and eating issues, chronic illness or pain, and co-occurring substance use. She addresses control and communication problems, codependency, and the aftermath of separation or domestic violence. Anger and impulse-related patterns are included in her list of clinical concerns.

In sessions she draws on moment-to-moment exploration alongside concrete skills training. For example, DBT techniques can teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation, while CBT helps reframe unhelpful thinking that fuels reactive behavior. EMDR is used for resolving traumatic memories when appropriate.

Her training includes a Master of Science in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. Liz emphasizes practical strategies, short skills practice between meetings, and collaborative planning so clients have clear steps to try between sessions.

Therapy approaches and online sessions