Brian Smith

Brian Smith is a licensed clinical professional counselor with a telehealth practice serving clients throughout Idaho. Brian helps clients struggling with anxiety and depression, trauma, grief and loss, life transition, issues with anger, and other emotional difficulties. With couples and families, Brian focuses on enhancing connection within a safe and secure relationship, and learning how each person can seek, offer, and accept support. Brian's clients learn to manage painful emotions and respond to difficult situations, distressed relationships, and past trauma.

Brian works with individuals, couples, and families who believe personal change is possible and valuable in their lives. He uses an emotion focused approach, as put forth in the work of Dr. Les Greenberg, and has received formal training in Dr. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. Brian views the counseling relationship as the most important factor to a successful process, and clients who appreciate a more direct approach within a therapeutic relationship built on trust and safety will stand to benefit from working with Brian. He will focus on the emotional process throughout the session and highlight this experience, helping to connect it with situations, thoughts, and beliefs. Clients will gain insight and awareness, make new meaning from their painful emotions, and develop internal strengths and resources to use in their everyday lives.

Brian's practice is exclusively telehealth (via Simple Practice), and he is in-network with Blue Cross of Idaho or accepts cash-pay. Please visit his website for more information or to get set up in the client portal.