Luciana Smalls , LPC

Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor practicing in South Carolina, holding the LPC credential that indicates state licensure to provide mental health counseling. She brings over eight years of direct experience as a mental health professional and more than twenty years working across the human services field, offering a broad perspective on clinical care.

She has worked with a diverse range of clients facing challenges such as depression, anxiety, adoption and foster care issues, relationship and parenting concerns, life transitions, ADHD, oppositional defiant behaviors, and addiction. Her approach blends compassion with constructive challenge, focusing on practical skills and strategies that help people transform difficulties into strengths. She emphasizes respectful, culturally aware care that acknowledges differences in values, sexual orientation, and identity.

Her clinical practice integrates cognitive-behavioral and humanistic principles and incorporates techniques from motivational interviewing, mindfulness, narrative therapy, and creative modalities. Treatment plans are individualized - collaboratively developed to address each person’s specific challenges, needs, and goals. Luciana supports clients through the difficult work of change, helping them build tools to move toward the goals they set for themselves and to foster personal growth over time.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Luciana Smalls uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful, empathetic relationship where the client’s goals and experiences guide the work. This approach helps with a wide range of concerns by focusing on personal values, strengths, and self-directed growth.

She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical, skills-based method that helps clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT can be especially useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Luciana works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy with a licensed professional offers flexibility and accessibility, allowing sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and choose the format that feels most comfortable for engaging in meaningful, goal-focused work with a therapist.