Katina Smith, LPC

Katina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with six years listed experience as an LPC and a longer history in social services. She works with adults on common concerns that show up at home and in daily life, including stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, grief, self-esteem, relationship and family issues, and ADHD.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness approaches. In sessions she helps people identify patterns of thinking, name the practical problems that cause strain, and try different ways of responding. She offers straightforward tools for managing strong emotions, coping with loss, and reducing substance-related harms.

Her background includes many years in social services and work with adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, intellectual disability, and survivors of domestic violence. That experience informs how she notices safety and practical needs when life becomes overwhelming.

Katina uses brief, concrete practices alongside conversation. That can mean looking at automatic thoughts, practicing a grounding skill, or using motivational interviewing to clarify readiness for change. Sessions focus on what is useful in day-to-day life rather than abstract theory.

She works with individual adults and with parenting concerns that affect household relationships. People who want to address communication problems, codependency, impulse control, or the stress of caregiving often seek out this style of work.

How her approaches translate to online sessions