Rodney "Rod" Smith
Recovery-focused counselor with practical skills
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Rodney
Rodney "Rod" Smith offers a direct, experience-informed approach for people facing addictions, relationship strain, trauma, depression, and major life transitions. With 15 years as a licensed professional counselor, he blends clinical training and personal insight to support clients through recovery and change.
Background and approach
Rod draws on his own long-term healing journey to inform an authentic, empathetic style that values honesty and practical progress. He uses evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and dialectical strategies to help clients identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and address underlying emotional wounds.
His work includes interventions for process and sex addictions, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, phobias, and issues like guilt, shame, infidelity, and isolation. Rod practices in Missouri as an LPC and offers services that emphasize collaboration, accountability, and gradual skill-building to restore a greater sense of purpose and functioning.
Clients can expect a therapist who balances professional experience with a grounded, relational manner, aiming to create a space where practical steps toward recovery and personal meaning are prioritized.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online recovery and growth
Rod uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and change thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, and addictive cycles; CBT emphasizes concrete skills and experiments to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. He also incorporates Client-Centered Therapy, offering empathic listening and a nonjudgmental stance that helps people feel heard and supported as they explore meaning, values, and personal goals. When helpful, elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy are added to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful for managing intense emotions and relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Rod partners with each client to assess needs, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what meets the client's goals and preferences. This flexibility helps tailor work to issues such as trauma recovery, process addictions, or transitions in life purpose.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, sustain momentum in skill practice, and access care from home or other convenient locations.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed
Missouri, Idaho
Languages
English