Luciana Smalls, LPC

Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who uses practical, skills-based work to help people cope with stress and anxiety. She blends straightforward strategies with a warm, respectful manner. Her style aims to be both supportive and challenging so people can make clear changes.

She draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to notice thinking patterns and change unhelpful behaviors. Luciana also uses client-centered ideas to listen closely and adapt to each person's values and culture. Mindfulness and dialectical skills are woven into sessions to help manage strong emotions and improve day-to-day coping.

Clients come for many concerns including depression, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting and family stress, grief, addiction, career worries, and adapting to life changes. She also works with issues like ADHD, impulsivity, body image, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and adoption or foster care matters. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings.

Her approach is collaborative. Together with each person she shapes a clear plan that matches goals and pace. Sessions often include skill practice, small behavioral experiments, and guided reflection to build confidence over time.

Luciana brings nine years of clinical experience alongside a long history in human services. She emphasizes respect for different sexual orientations and identities and aims to create a space where people feel heard while they work on change.

How CBT, Client-Centered Work, and DBT Skills Translate Online

Luciana often uses cognitive behavioral techniques online to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT sessions may include simple experiments, thought records, and planning small changes that can be practiced between meetings. Client-centered methods focus on active listening and adapting to each person's values and goals, so online sessions prioritize what matters most to the individual.

She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills to help manage strong emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-informed exercises online commonly teach breathing and grounding, emotion regulation steps, and clear communication strategies that can be used immediately in daily life. Together these approaches aim to build practical tools for coping and connection.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Adjustments happen over time based on what works, so the plan changes as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and use the format that feels most practical for them.