About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Smart is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio with six years of experience. He focuses on everyday problems that get in the way of a person's goals and sense of meaning. Jeffrey frames challenges as opportunities and aims to help people move toward clearer purpose and practical change.
He uses a person-centered outlook that treats counseling as a collaborative conversation. That means clients set goals and the work centers on their values and priorities.
Background and approach
Jeffrey blends this with approaches that look at thoughts and behaviors and at how people live meaningful lives. Jeffrey helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and addictions. He also supports those facing trauma, relationship strain, career questions, bipolar disorder, and major life transitions.
Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, communication problems, codependency, and issues related to divorce or blended families. Sessions combine practical skills and reflective work. Clients can expect talk that names problems, tries new strategies, and links changes to what matters most to them.
The atmosphere is nonjudgmental and direct, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. Jeffrey offers a mix of tools from cognitive methods, acceptance-based practices, and existential thinking. He also incorporates relationship-focused techniques when couples or partners need clearer communication.
Online and phone options are available for many people seeking flexibility.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes because it emphasizes what matters and small steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior and testing new ways of responding. CBT often helps with anxiety, stress, and addictions by teaching concrete skills to change reactions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the person's goals guide the work and the therapist reflects and listens deeply.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative plan can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make sessions fit a person's life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a less visual check-in. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or times when typing is more convenient. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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