Simone Smith, LPC

Simone Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, and major life changes. She also supports those coping with trauma, addictions, career uncertainty, and issues tied to prejudice or postpartum depression. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at people seeking practical help and clearer next steps.

Simone draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside acceptance and client-centered ideas to shape sessions. She focuses on simple tools you can use between meetings, such as skill practice, values-based actions, and noticing unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with ideas tried and adjusted as needed.

Her background includes work in a school environment and in private practice, giving her experience with a wide range of concerns including young adult issues and parenting challenges. She has worked with people who have experienced racial trauma and brings sensitivity to prejudice and discrimination in therapy.

Simone aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She listens for what matters to each person, then builds a plan that fits their life and pace. The plan often mixes practical behavior changes, emotion-focused conversation, and relationship-focused strategies.

People come away with clearer choices and concrete next steps for daily life. Simone encourages steady progress and focuses on small changes that add up over time.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Simone uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and low mood. This approach focuses on practical steps and experiments that can be done between sessions.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. That work is useful for life transitions, stress, and building long-term motivation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Simone treats therapy as a collaborative process - she listens to goals and tries strategies, then adjusts based on what helps. Clients set priorities and she helps match methods to those goals and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can be lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule or to keep steady contact between meetings.