Dr. LaShaunda Smith, LPC

Dr. LaShaunda Smith offers a practical, skills-focused approach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eight years of experience and works from Mississippi. Her style is straightforward and aimed at helping people make small, useful changes that add up over time.

She helps with stress and anxiety by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking. For relationship and family concerns she listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients try different responses. She also supports people facing big life changes, grief, trauma, or challenges related to identity and discrimination.

Her background includes work with parenting concerns, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and other family of origin problems. She brings attention to cultural and multicultural concerns when they matter to the person she is meeting with.

Sessions center on clear goals and practical tools. Dr. Smith emphasizes the client’s own strengths and choices, and she helps people try small experiments between sessions. She aims to make therapy an active process that fits everyday life.

People can expect direct, compassionate conversation that points toward doable next steps. She encourages anyone taking the first step to get in touch and begin the matching process.

How CBT and Parts Work in Online Therapy

Dr. Smith often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different actions to change feelings and outcomes. CBT can help with anxiety, stress, mood challenges, and problems that interfere with daily life.

She also draws on Internal Family Systems, a way of noticing the different "parts" inside a person and listening to how they react to stress, shame, or fear. That approach helps with relationship patterns, self-esteem, and healing from trauma by giving language to inner experience.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to decide whether CBT, Internal Family Systems, or a combination makes sense based on goals, preferences, and the issue at hand. Sessions focus on practical steps and experiments the person can use between meetings.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing skills practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while still progressing toward clear goals.