About Eloris
Eloris Smith is a licensed social worker in Louisiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem struggles, career challenges, and depression. She presents a calm, practical presence and focuses on what a person wants to change. Eloris treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them build on strengths they already have.
She uses straightforward conversation and targeted skills to address daily pressures and recurring patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include setting small goals, trying new coping strategies, and noticing what gets in the way of progress. Eloris encourages realistic steps that fit into a busy life. Eloris draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to shape her work.
She explains tools in simple terms and practices them alongside clients in session. The focus is on concrete skills people can use between meetings. With seven years of experience, Eloris blends practical techniques with a supportive stance.
She helps clients name patterns like control issues, abandonment concerns, or workplace stress, and then maps clear ways to change them. Her work includes support around divorce and separation, communication problems, forgiveness, and self-love. Eloris holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW and works from Louisiana.
She offers sessions in English and seeks to make therapy an achievable step for people juggling family, work, and other demands.
Evidence-informed approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions aligned with their values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and when someone wants clearer direction in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical behavioral changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and improving everyday coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process, and techniques can be adjusted if something is not fitting well.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging are useful for brief updates and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats let people fit regular therapy into workdays, parenting routines, and other commitments while working with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English