Yiasha Smith, LPC

Yiasha Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults who are facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and major life transitions. Yiasha aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear.

She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts that affect daily life. She also uses client-centered listening to make sessions feel respectful and collaborative. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on practical steps people can try between sessions.

Yiasha often works with people coping with relationship stress, grief, parenting strain, or career shifts. She also supports those dealing with anger, addictions, body image concerns, and low self-esteem. Sessions emphasize decision-making, coping skills, and small behavioral changes that add up over time.

In sessions she brings a calm, energetic approach and keeps the focus on what matters most to the client. She aims to help people feel less alone while developing tools to handle triggers and setbacks. Conversation is straightforward, and goals are revisited as progress is made.

Yiasha offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How Yiasha Uses Different Approaches Online

Yiasha commonly uses cognitive behavioral strategies and client-centered methods when working online. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Client-centered therapy emphasizes careful listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace to clarify values and goals.

She may also draw on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when strong emotions or impulsivity are concerns. DBT skills teach concrete ways to manage intense feelings, improve relationships, and tolerate distress without making things worse.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Yiasha works with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Initial sessions are used to learn what feels helpful and to shape the plan moving forward.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when a camera is not desired. Live chat and text messaging can support ongoing coaching, quick updates, or reaching out between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity of care.