- Warm partnership
- Goal focused work
- Trauma informed care
About Paige
Paige Smart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people navigating depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, and major life changes. She writes in a warm, straightforward style and aims to make therapy feel like a real partnership. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical steps that fit daily life.
She draws on six years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns. Those include mood disorders such as bipolar symptoms, panic attacks, grief, addiction, relationship and family challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses more specific issues like abandonment, intimacy and commitment worries, and concerns tied to alternative sex culture and kink.
Paige describes her stance as welcoming and nonjudgmental. Early work focuses on learning how biological, psychological, and social factors have shaped the person in front of her. From there she and the person in therapy set goals and choose strategies together.
Therapeutic tools include client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, EMDR approaches for trauma, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. These are used flexibly to meet each person's needs rather than follow a fixed recipe.
Her Missouri licensure and Washington credential reflect her professional standing. Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are not accepted. To begin, people use the platform Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
She draws on six years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns. Those include mood disorders such as bipolar symptoms, panic attacks, grief, addiction, relationship and family challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses more specific issues like abandonment, intimacy and commitment worries, and concerns tied to alternative sex culture and kink.
Paige describes her stance as welcoming and nonjudgmental. Early work focuses on learning how biological, psychological, and social factors have shaped the person in front of her. From there she and the person in therapy set goals and choose strategies together.
Therapeutic tools include client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, EMDR approaches for trauma, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. These are used flexibly to meet each person's needs rather than follow a fixed recipe.
Her Missouri licensure and Washington credential reflect her professional standing. Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are not accepted. To begin, people use the platform Start Therapy flow and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.