Luciana Smalls, LPC

Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with nine years of counseling experience and over two decades in human services. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and parenting concerns, adoption and foster care matters, addiction, ADHD, and grief. Sessions focus on practical skills and real strategies to handle daily pressures and interpersonal strain.

Her style combines direct support with challenge. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and build rapport. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness tools are offered to help regulate strong emotions and reduce reactivity.

Luciana also uses motivational interviewing and elements of Imago Relationship Therapy when relationship patterns are in focus. She works with people to set clear goals and build step-by-step plans. Progress often looks like fewer impulsive reactions, clearer communication, and better coping with triggers.

She has worked across a wide range of settings and with diverse backgrounds, including adoption and foster care contexts and clients managing caregiver stress. Luciana emphasizes practical techniques that can be practiced between sessions, such as grounding, thought records, and brief behavioral experiments.

If someone wants to address anger, she helps identify what sparks it and teaches skills to respond differently. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to review goals and a plan.

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