About Taylor
Taylor Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with ten years of clinical experience. He blends practical, goal-focused work with conversational therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Taylor writes in a straightforward way and aims to make sessions useful from the start.
He uses a mix of brief, solution-focused methods and deeper psychological approaches when needed. That means short-term strategies to solve pressing problems, plus exploration of patterns that keep problems returning.
Background and approach
He uses hypnotherapy techniques and ideas drawn from Jungian thinking to support insight and change. Taylor has worked with people facing trauma, grief, depression, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and life transitions. He also assists those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and addiction-related struggles.
His practice includes attention to attachment and family of origin issues that influence current behavior. Sessions are aimed at setting clear goals, teaching practical skills, and tracking progress. Taylor favors hands-on tools people can try between meetings, paired with conversations that clarify values and motivation.
He describes therapy as collaborative and focused on what the client wants to change. Based in California, Taylor draws on training in counseling psychology and work with substance misuse from internships and practicum placements. He balances fast, focused work when that fits a person’s needs with longer exploratory work for deeper change.
He presents himself as a committed partner who aims to respect clients’ time and resources.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on teaching concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. In online sessions these skills are taught, practiced, and reinforced with homework so people can use them in daily life.Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help people connect with motivation, reduce anxiety, or shift habits. Online hypnotherapy can include guided exercises and focused conversation to support behavior change and coping with stress or addiction cravings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Taylor will discuss different methods, try techniques, and adjust based on a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps determine whether brief solution-focused work, skills-based DBT, hypnotherapy, or exploration of deeper patterns will be most useful.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick coaching, tracking homework, or sending updates between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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