Rena Smith, LCSW

Rena Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Louisiana with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, and anger. She frames clients as experts in their own lives and focuses on practical change rather than labels.

She begins sessions by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. She uses straightforward conversation to identify patterns that keep problems repeating. Then she helps people try small, concrete changes and notice what works in daily life.

Rena uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values. She also uses Client-Centered methods to keep the work grounded in the client’s perspective, and Motivational Interviewing to support people who are ambivalent about change. Solution-Focused techniques are used when people want clear short-term goals to test new approaches.

In practice this looks like tracking triggers, experimenting with alternative reactions, and setting simple behavioral steps between sessions. She helps people manage anger that shows up at work, at home, or after loss, and supports those coping with addiction or major life transitions. The tone in sessions is practical and direct, focused on what can be changed now.

Rena works in English and draws on broad experience with multicultural concerns, grief, codependency, and family of origin issues. Her approach aims to help people reduce the hold of old patterns and build clearer ways of responding when stress or resentment rises.

How Rena’s approaches translate to online work