About Paige
Paige Smart is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, mood changes, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps parents and individuals can use right away. Paige aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental place where people can talk through what is hard and find clearer ways forward.
Paige draws on a mix of conversation and skills work to address problems like depression, panic attacks, bipolar symptoms, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how health, emotions, and life circumstances interact to shape daily struggles. That helps her and the person she’s supporting set goals that fit real life. Her sessions often include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to build emotion regulation and mindfulness to support stress management. For trauma-related concerns she may include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing approaches alongside other strategies. Paige has six years of clinical experience and holds licenses in Missouri and Washington - LPC and LMHC.
She has worked with people facing grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, and issues connected to alternative sex culture such as kink and BDSM. She also supports those coping with financial stress, isolation, or life transitions. Conversations are collaborative and practical.
Paige works with each person to craft a plan that fits their schedule, needs, and priorities. She invites people to start small, try concrete tools, and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person in the room and focuses on understanding their goals and values. That approach helps guide which tools to try and keeps sessions focused on what matters to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, panic, and depressive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. This partnership makes it easier to combine talk, skills practice, and mindfulness in ways that fit daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversation and teaching exercises, phone can be simpler when camera time is difficult, and text or chat works well for quick check-ins or brief progress notes. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, school, and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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