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Denisha Smith, LMHC

  • Experience11 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Denisha

Denisha Smith is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who blends evidence-based methods with a compassionate, person-centered stance.

Background and approach

With 11 years of clinical experience, she draws on Internal Family Systems alongside cognitive and experiential approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship patterns, trauma and related challenges. Her work emphasizes collaboration, honoring where a person is while encouraging practical steps toward change.

Denisha uses a flexible, integrative style that may include CBT techniques, mindfulness practices, and trauma-informed tools such as EMDR when appropriate. She frames therapy as a cooperative process that moves at each client’s pace, focusing on reducing distress, improving communication, and strengthening self-understanding.

Clients can expect a focus on real-world coping strategies alongside exploration of underlying patterns like attachment dynamics, guilt and shame, or feelings of emptiness. Across her practice she aims to empower clients to reclaim agency and discover lasting shifts in how they relate to themselves and others.

Her approach supports those coping with life transitions, workplace strain, parenting concerns, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and the ripple effects of past abuse or trauma.

Integrative approaches for online healing and growth

Denisha commonly blends Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and trauma-informed tools to support clients via online care. Internal Family Systems helps people explore the different parts of their inner experience, offering a way to understand conflicting feelings and self-protective patterns and to foster internal harmony. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises that can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. EMDR is sometimes used as a trauma-focused technique to help process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge when that approach fits a client’s needs.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to consider goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adjusting methods over time to best support progress. Clients are invited to be active participants in selecting tools that feel useful and sustainable.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options for engagement. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access care from different locations while working with a licensed professional who tailors methods to individual needs.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Denisha commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes, among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style and approach?
Her work is collaborative and person-centered, combining Internal Family Systems with CBT, mindfulness, existential ideas and other modalities to tailor care to each person’s needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience practicing as a mental health professional working with a wide range of concerns and therapeutic techniques.
What credentials and location information are provided?
She holds the credential LMHC and practices in Florida under license FL LMHC MH18937.
Does she provide services in multiple languages or internationally?
She offers services in English and does accept international clients.
Which session formats are available for remote work?
Available session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseParenting issues

Also works with

Anger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsControl issuesEmptinessFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMulticultural concernsPost-traumatic stressSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English