Beverly Smith, LCSW

Beverly Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience guiding people through stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She centers conversations on thoughts and everyday habits to help clients notice patterns and try small, manageable changes. Beverly aims to be caring, honest, and straightforward in sessions.

Her background includes work in hospitals, clinics, adoption and foster care agencies, and assisted living facilities. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at local junior colleges. Those roles shaped a practical approach that mixes talking, problem solving, and simple skills practice.

Beverly uses client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals and pace. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Mindfulness-based work is part of her toolbox for managing stress and staying present.

She has experience offering support around parenting, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, relationship wounds, and identity concerns for LGBTQ people. Beverly also helps with anger, body image, eating concerns, and career-related stress. She pays attention to how past losses and trauma shape current choices.

In sessions she focuses on practical steps clients can try between meetings. She encourages collaboration about goals and methods, and she adjusts plans as needs change. Prospective clients are invited to match with her thoughtfully and begin by describing what they hope to change.

How her approaches map to online therapy

Beverly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change thoughts and everyday habits. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s goals, which helps shape what is worked on in each session. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tests small experiments to try different outcomes.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Beverly collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She reviews options together and adjusts the plan as progress and priorities shift.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the specific session formats offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and support regular check-ins between appointments. It can also allow for shorter check-ins at work breaks or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. Beverly will talk through what scheduling and session styles will work best for your routine.