About Athina
Athina Smalios is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and mood concerns. She offers clear, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She focuses on small, doable steps clients can use between sessions. In sessions she listens first and then helps people identify what’s most pressing. She uses familiar tools to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused so progress is measurable. Athina works to make strategies feel realistic for each person’s life. Her background includes long experience with trauma, anger, and self-esteem issues.
She also helps people facing workplace stress, caregiver strain, and the weariness that comes from repeated exposure to others’ suffering. She pays attention to how life changes and losses affect mood and behavior. Athina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions.
Those methods guide how she structures sessions and plans follow-up steps. She prefers approaches that lead to concrete changes clients can try between meetings. People who come to her can expect a calm, steady presence and practical homework assignments.
Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills and clear thinking. Over time she helps clients build routines and responses that reduce overwhelm and increase confidence.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Athina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on changing patterns that keep problems going, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. This approach helps clients clarify what they want and build motivation in small, manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaboration helps shape whether sessions lean more on CBT, motivational techniques, or solution-focused planning.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for on-the-go check-ins and brief supportive exchanges between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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