About Dennis
Dennis Patrick Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people handle stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and relationship strain. He approaches each person with respect and compassion. He focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier.
He adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. Sessions emphasize clear goals and skills people can practice between meetings. He uses straightforward feedback and keeps the work focused on what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
His background includes seven years of clinical work across mood, grief, anger, and intimacy-related concerns. He also supports people managing career changes, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. ADHD is listed among his focus areas and may be part of the topics brought to sessions.
Therapeutic methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Existential Therapy. These approaches guide how he helps people identify values, change unhelpful thoughts, and build stronger relationships. People who come for therapy often want practical tools and clear next steps.
He encourages collaboration on goals and respects each person's pace. The work tends to be direct, supportive, and aimed at real-life changes.
Approaches in online therapy and what to expect
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take actions that matter to them, even when emotions feel difficult. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It is practical and goal oriented. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, and it can help people improve intimacy and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and make collaborative choices about which methods to use. Adjustments happen over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations and deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and they allow checking in without video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs a flexible option between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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