About Selma
Selma Smith is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles and talks plainly about what can change. She aims to make conversations straightforward and useful for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She helps people address addictions, stress, anxiety, depression, and mood-related concerns including bipolar disorder. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
ADHD, career strain, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue are among other areas she regularly addresses. In sessions she listens carefully and adapts the plan to each person. Goals are set together and broken into manageable steps.
Expect clear feedback, coping skills you can try between meetings, and a focus on small, steady progress. Her background includes over a decade of clinical work in North Carolina, offering a mix of counseling and coaching-style guidance. She values respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation.
This creates room to acknowledge what’s hard while working toward change. Selma encourages people who feel ready to take a step toward a different life to reach out. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and will support clients as they try new skills and adjust plans over time.
Practical approaches for online care and ADHD-related concerns
Selma incorporates evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and behavior change. One common approach teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress management, such as breathing, activity scheduling, and sleep hygiene, which can help with everyday functioning and mood regulation. Another approach emphasizes step-by-step problem solving and goal setting to break larger challenges into manageable tasks, useful for motivation, procrastination, and ADHD-related organization issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients take an active role in deciding which strategies fit their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video lets people see visual cues and build rapport. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can support quick questions, ongoing coaching, or check-ins between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit care into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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