About Deliciah
Deliciah Smith-Blanks welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She offers a calm, straightforward approach and helps people develop practical coping skills. Deliciah is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida - LCSW - and she draws on that background to guide conversations and planning.
She focuses on everyday problems that can feel heavy, such as low self-esteem, family conflict, and major transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions are about clear steps people can try between meetings, and about learning to notice thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress. Deliciah uses a mix of approaches depending on the person.
She works from a client-centered stance to make sure goals match a person's values. She also uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help change unhelpful thinking and to build tolerance for difficult emotions. Her work includes helping people facing chronic illness, cancer, chronic pain, and aging-related concerns.
She also addresses relationship patterns like codependency, commitment worries, and communication problems. Sessions move at a pace the client can manage, with concrete tools to try at home. People who meet with Deliciah can expect a respectful, down-to-earth conversation focused on what they want to change.
She aims to help people find small, doable steps that lead to better day-to-day functioning and a clearer sense of direction.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy centers the conversation on the person's goals and values, giving space to talk through what matters most and to build a plan that fits daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying specific tools to change those patterns, which can help with anxiety, stress, and self-esteem. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase tolerance for difficult emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then suggest where to begin. That plan can change over time as needs shift, and decisions about methods happen collaboratively.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports shorter exchanges or ongoing questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose a format that feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English