About Terriee
Terriee Smith is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges around eating and substance use. She listens closely and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Her goal is to help clients build strength and clearer routines one step at a time.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to combine mindfulness with everyday action. Terriee also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and aimed at small, measurable changes that fit real life. With eleven years of experience, Terriee brings work with complex concerns such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, grief, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring conditions. She also addresses issues tied to aging, caregiver stress, body image, and challenges tied to first responder or veteran experiences.
Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Counseling. In sessions she combines direct skill teaching with listening and reflection. People leave with coping tools, clearer goals, and strategies for sleep, anger, and relationship strain.
Terriee keeps approaches practical so skills can be used right away. Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She practices as a Florida LMHC and works with individuals seeking help for these concerns and life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors through practical exercises, which can help with sleeping problems, mood, and anger.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adjust methods and try tools until the best mix of strategies is clear and useful for day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face while live chat or text can fit quick check-ins and shorter updates. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and apply skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English