Ileah-Mare Smith-Allen brings a client-centered way of working to help people navigate stress, relationships, and life transitions.
01About Ileah-Mare
Ileah-Mare Smith-Allen brings a client-centered way of working to help people navigate stress, relationships, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Michigan with over two decades of experience. Her approach emphasizes listening, practical steps, and building on each person’s strengths.
She focuses on concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues with intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people facing parenting strain, blended family challenges, and the emotional fallout of separation or infidelity.
Background and approach
Career struggles, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and sleep or eating difficulties are also within her practice focus. Ileah-Mare blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness techniques to help people find clearer thinking and calmer responses. She also uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy when clients want shorter-term, goal-oriented work.
Sessions emphasize attainable strategies and real-life changes rather than abstract theory. People meet her for help with communication problems, commitment worries, abandonment fears, and lingering family-of-origin issues. She aims to create a space where clients can name what matters and try small changes that add up over time.
Practical homework, skill building, and compassionate feedback are common parts of the work. Her practice includes a range of online formats so people can choose what fits their routine. Ileah-Mare frames therapy as a collaborative effort and helps each person tailor the pace and goals of their sessions.
02Credentials
- LPC (Michigan)
- License 6401009805 · expires January 2027
- LPC (Arizona)
- License LPC-22233 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1992946529 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ileah-Mare lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Ileah-Mare names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Ileah-Mare names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people identify their own goals and strengths. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying what a person wants to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating difficulties, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative planning helps shape whether sessions focus on skills practice, short-term problem solving, or deeper exploration.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a shorter, more flexible option is needed. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship and family issues, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and intimacy-related problems. Additional focuses include parenting stress, blended family issues, communication problems, and career concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is client-centered and practical. She combines listening with clear strategies from CBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods.
How much experience does she have?
She has 21 years of professional experience helping people with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and practices from Michigan with license credentials in AZ LPC and MI LPC noted.
Can people who speak other languages work with her?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist selection; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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