Dr. LaShaunda Smith, LPC

Dr. LaShaunda Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday pressures like stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, and coping with major life changes. Her approach centers on helping people use their own strengths to move forward.

She combines practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with work that looks at internal parts and how they interact. That means sessions often include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and learning ways to respond differently. It also means talking about the different feelings or parts inside someone that influence behavior and choices.

Dr. Smith supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, anger, and issues around self-esteem and identity. She also addresses concerns such as jealousy, abandonment, blended family challenges, and multicultural or discrimination-related stress. Sessions aim to help people manage symptoms and make clearer decisions about next steps.

Her style is respectful and collaborative. She treats people as the experts on their lives and helps them build on what already works. The goal is to develop practical coping strategies that fit day-to-day life.

To begin, a person selects the continue button on this profile, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to the therapist's availability. Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How CBT and Parts Work Fit into Online Therapy

Many people find Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helpful because it focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new responses. CBT teaches concrete skills for anxiety, stress, eating concerns, and mood shifts that can be practiced between sessions.

Internal Family Systems is about noticing the different parts inside a person and how they relate to each other. That approach helps when strong emotions, self-criticism, or conflicted impulses get in the way of daily functioning or relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare, and travel. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or phone-based conversations when bandwidth is limited. Ask about available formats when scheduling to find what fits your routine.