Evalee Smith, LISW, LCSW, CSW

Evalee Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years in mental health and social services. She holds a Master of Social Work from Savannah State University and has practiced in Georgia and South Carolina. Evalee draws on long experience helping people manage depression, anxiety, bipolar mood concerns, and the stress that comes with life transitions.

She uses a warm, interactive style in sessions. Evalee emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels. She focuses on each person's strengths and builds individualized plans to match specific needs.

Her background includes work with ADHD, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, parenting concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges related to identity and gender. Evalee also lists aging and geriatric issues among her additional focus areas and supports people navigating later-life changes.

In sessions she blends practical skills with deeper exploration. That can mean learning emotion regulation and coping strategies, practicing communication and boundary-setting, or examining patterns from attachment and life history. She draws from cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior, attachment-based, emotionally-focused, and client-centered ideas.

Evalee aims to help people gain tools they can use day to day. She invites clients to set goals and works collaboratively to meet them. The emphasis is on clear, doable steps rather than jargon or labels.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how past connections affect present reactions; it can help with trust, intimacy, and recurring relationship concerns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and choices, offering a nonjudgmental space where goals and pacing come from the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Evalee works together with each person to decide which methods fit best. That might mean starting with skills-driven CBT for symptom relief, then shifting to attachment or client-centered work to deepen understanding and repair relationship patterns.

Confirm available session formats before booking to know which online options are supported. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and letting people meet from a familiar setting. They can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or let someone choose an audio session if video is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to work through practical problems and longer-term patterns in remote sessions.