Floyd Smith
Evidence-informed trauma and mood support
LCSW Missouri
- Experience
- 39 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Trauma and abuse, Grief, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Floyd
Floyd Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 39 years of clinical experience helping people work through complex emotional challenges. He focuses on trauma recovery, grief processing, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, and building stronger self-esteem.
Background and approach
Floyd blends practical, evidence-informed techniques with a client-centered stance to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. His practice emphasizes trauma-informed care and communication skills, addressing issues like post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, anger, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles.
He also works with concerns including anxiety, stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and multicultural issues. Floyd draws on long-standing clinical experience to help clients explore shame and guilt, improve coping during life transitions, and develop strategies for emotional regulation.
People who seek his help can expect a respectful, culturally aware approach that honors individual background and lived experience. Floyd aims to create a collaborative space where clients and therapist work together to identify goals, practice skills, and support sustainable change over time.
Online approaches for trauma and mood work
Floyd incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods into online work, using CBT to help people identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or mood instability. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used to address the impact of traumatic experiences, helping clients process memories and develop coping strategies to reduce trauma-related symptoms.He also follows client-centered principles that prioritize the person’s own perspective and goals, creating space for clients to lead the pace and focus of therapy. Finding the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process and he works with each client to tailor methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not practical, while allowing therapists to adapt techniques for effective remote work.
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Experience
39+ years
Licensed
Missouri
Languages
English