Dennis Patrick Smith, LPC
Therapist in Texas
Dennis Patrick Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, relationship concerns, and trauma.
- Licensed inTexas
- License91127
- NPI 1265075139
- Experience7+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Dennis
Dennis Patrick Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, relationship concerns, and trauma. He focuses on practical steps that people can use each week. He aims to offer respectful, compassionate support while tailoring sessions to each person's needs.
He blends attachment-based ideas with acceptance and commitment work and client-centered listening. Sessions often include straightforward talk about patterns, values, and small behavior changes to try between meetings.
Background and approach
The goal is to build clearer choices and better emotional coping. Dennis draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. He also uses existential questions to help people clarify what matters in their life when big choices or losses appear.
That mix helps with depression, grief, career uncertainty, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. People who come to him for addiction, anger, intimacy, or abandonment issues get a plan that aims for steady progress. He attends to compassion fatigue and first responder stress with practical self-care steps and boundaries.
Sessions work on communication problems, commitment concerns, and rebuilding trust after domestic or other trauma. With seven years of experience as an LPC, he keeps the work straightforward and collaborative. He helps people set small goals, try new skills between sessions, and adjust the plan as life changes.
Credentials
- LPC (Texas)
- License 91127 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1265075139 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dennis lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dennis names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people understand patterns that show up in close connections and offers ways to build safer, more reliable interactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters most and take small actions that align with those values while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to weigh goals, symptoms, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and shifting methods if something isn’t working well for the client’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video lets people read facial cues and try exercises together, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can support shorter updates or between-session contact. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to keep progress moving forward.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does he help with?
Dennis works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes among other areas.
How would he describe his therapeutic style?
He uses a respectful, compassionate, and collaborative style that focuses on practical steps. Sessions combine listening with exercises people can try between meetings.
What is his professional background?
He has seven years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor and has worked with a wide range of concerns including addiction, trauma, and caregiver stress.
Where is he based and licensed?
He is licensed in Texas as an LPC and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling a session based on therapist availability.
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