Dr. Marie Smith, LMHC, LPC

Dr. Marie Smith is an LMHC and an LPC licensed in Florida and Louisiana with 25 years of clinical experience. She has worked in schools, hospitals, clinics, and correctional settings and focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, relationship strain, grief, career matters, and coaching.

Marie draws on long experience in education and administration to help people trace how earlier life stages affect current routines and relationships. She often listens for patterns that started in childhood and reappear in parenting, work, or intimate partnerships. Sessions move at a steady pace and focus on practical steps people can take between meetings.

Her approach brings together client-centered conversations, cognitive behavioral strategies, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and trauma-focused work. That combination is used to build coping skills, manage strong emotions, and address the effects of adverse childhood experiences. She also incorporates mindfulness tools to reduce reactivity and improve attention.

Marie has experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, intellectual disability, and caregiver stress. She helps people cope with divorce and separation, family problems, and transitions such as college or career changes.

People who choose her typically want clear, structured guidance and practical skills they can use at home. To begin, readers should confirm current session options and then follow the practice's steps to schedule a first appointment.

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