Simone Smith
Calm, practical support for life’s transitions
LPC New Jersey
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Simone
Simone Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports individuals facing parenting challenges, career transitions, addiction struggles, and trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
Simone pays attention to how prejudice and racial trauma can affect wellbeing and addresses postpartum depression and issues many women face. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
Sessions are collaborative and respectful. She avoids stigmatizing labels and listens closely to each person’s story before suggesting steps forward.
Simone draws on several evidence-informed approaches. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered listening and emotion-focused work to help people notice patterns, name feelings, and try new behaviors.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy strategies to help people clarify values and take steps that matter to them. In practical terms Simone focuses on small, doable changes.
She helps clients build coping skills for daily stress and creates plans for handling life transitions. When relationships or parenting concerns come up, she focuses on communication patterns and concrete skills people can practice between sessions.
With six years of experience across school settings and independent practice, she brings a balance of practical skill and empathy. Simone works with each person to shape goals that fit their life and pace.
If someone wants steady, collaborative support through a difficult season, she aims to offer that kind of partnership.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
The Gottman Method focuses on practical communication skills and patterns that affect relationships. It helps people notice interaction cycles and practice small changes to improve connection and reduce conflict.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Simone will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will try approaches that fit. The work often combines methods so the plan matches practical needs and personal values.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when scheduling needs a quick option. These formats help therapy fit work, family life, or other commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress and practical skills.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed in
New Jersey
Languages
English