About Tahaji
Tahaji Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, addiction, and major life changes. She focuses on practical support for coping with relationship struggles, trauma, intimacy concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at making the first step feel manageable for worried parents reading on a phone.
Tahaji draws on everyday conversations and hands-on strategies rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to center on identifying what matters to each person and finding small, doable changes. She encourages clients to name feelings, notice patterns, and try new ways of handling hard moments. Before becoming a clinician Tahaji spent many years in public service, including long experience as an emergency dispatcher.
That background shaped her calm approach to crisis and stress. She completed a Master of Social Work and holds a Florida LCSW license (FL LCSW SW24154). In therapy she blends several approaches to fit the person in front of her.
That can include cognitive-behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based ideas to build flexibility, and emotion-focused work to improve connection and communication. She keeps explanations plain and focused on what a person can try between sessions. Tahaji offers video, phone, chat, and messaging formats to fit busy lives.
She aims to support people through practical steps toward more satisfying days, whether the work is around grief, addiction, body image, codependency, or daily overwhelm.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes values and small actions. It helps people move toward what matters even when strong emotions are present, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and purpose-related concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers tools to change unhelpful patterns, useful for stress, low mood, and some addiction-related problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses to improve connection and communication in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try strategies collaboratively, adjusting methods to match priorities and how a person responds. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools and focus feel most helpful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when video is not needed, and chat or messaging works for quick check-ins or written reflections. These options support flexible pacing, letting people choose shorter check-ins or longer sessions as life allows, and help keep continuity when travel or work demands change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English