About Taylor
Taylor Smith is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with ten years of clinical experience. He brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on clear, usable tools that fit into busy lives.
Background and approach
Taylor is a husband and father who draws on personal experience alongside professional training to support people through change. He uses approaches like Dialectical Behavior Therapy, hypnotherapy, Jungian ideas, and solution-focused work to match the problem at hand.
That means sessions can include skills for emotion regulation, brief goal-focused strategies, guided suggestion work, and attention to personal meaning and life themes. Taylor adapts his methods to each person’s goals and situation.
Taylor has spent time working in substance abuse practicums and an internship, giving him experience with addiction-related issues. He also has a background in brief therapy and the techniques of Milton Erickson, which influence how he structures sessions and interventions.
Over the years he has seen many common concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship and intimacy-related struggles. Expect direct communication and an emphasis on practical change.
Taylor values honest feedback and sets work that can be measured against your goals. He offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based options to fit different schedules and preferences.
Based in California, Taylor works in English and brings a focused, time-sensitive approach for people navigating life transitions, caregiving strain, chronic illness, parenting stresses, career dilemmas, and recovery from substance misuse.
How targeted approaches work online
Taylor uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT skills are practical and can help with intense emotions, anger, and relationship struggles. He also uses hypnotherapy techniques drawn from Erickson-influenced methods to support behavior change, habit work, and focused suggestion for motivation and coping.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Taylor will talk with each person about their goals and symptoms, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. Sessions mix skill practice, brief solution-focused tasks, and occasional guided suggestion when useful, so the method evolves with what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and skills practice, phone works well for shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat can support fast problem-solving during a break, and messaging is handy for ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or unpredictable days while keeping a steady connection with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English