Anastasia Smith-McEwen, LPC

Anastasia Smith-McEwen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Mississippi who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for common struggles like depression, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life changes. Her approach is practical and focused on everyday steps people can use right away.

She brings eleven years of work in community settings, including home-based foster care, a local mental health center crisis role, and an acute inpatient facility. Those roles shaped how she responds to urgent needs and ongoing challenges. She has experience leading groups and meeting with people one-on-one.

Sessions mix listening with practical tools. Anastasia uses client-centered methods that start with what matters to the person in the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and make small behavior changes over time.

Mindfulness strategies and solution-focused techniques are part of her toolkit when clients want skills for staying calm or moving toward a specific goal. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change and needs help building commitment and momentum.

She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, parenting stress, addictions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, intimacy questions, anger, career stress, and LGBT-related issues. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on available times.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person first and aims to build understanding through open listening and reflection. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk things through and identify what matters to them in their life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It offers hands-on tools for easing anxiety, improving mood, and changing small habits that get in the way of daily functioning.

Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention skills to reduce stress and interrupt automatic reactions. These skills can be practiced between sessions to help with staying calm during busy or difficult moments.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she may blend approaches as those needs change over time.

Session format details were not specified in the supplied biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins when life is busy. It can also allow people to practice skills in their daily routines and bring real situations into discussion during appointments.