- DBT skills
- Hypnotherapy techniques
- Solution-focused goals
About Taylor
Taylor Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 10 years of clinical experience. He works with adults on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, parenting concerns, mood issues, and family-of-origin patterns. He also addresses grief, anger, career questions, and problems tied to life changes.
Taylor draws on a mix of brief, solution-focused work and depth-oriented approaches. Sessions often focus on clear, practical tools that people can use between meetings. He has experience with substance-use work from practicum and internship settings and applies that experience when addiction or misuse is part of the picture.
His approach can include dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. He also uses hypnotherapy techniques influenced by Milton Erickson, and he incorporates Jungian ideas when looking at deeper patterns and symbols. Solution-focused methods are used to set short-term, measurable goals.
Taylor often frames sessions around concrete goals - reducing anxiety, improving communication, handling parenting strain, or working through family-of-origin issues that repeat across relationships. He will adjust pacing to match how much work someone wants to do and how quickly they want results.
Outside clinical work he is a husband, father, and business owner, and he aims to bring practical perspective to clinical problems. People who prefer direct, tool-based work that still addresses deeper patterns may find his style fits their needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online work
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing reactive behaviors. It can help with anxiety, anger, and patterns that get in the way of relationships by focusing on regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness.Hypnotherapy draws on guided relaxation and focused attention to help access thoughts and associations that are hard to reach in ordinary conversation. It can be used to support habit change, motivation, and reducing symptom intensity when combined with other methods.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Taylor treats approach selection as a collaborative process that looks at a person’s goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. He may emphasize skills, short-term solutions, or deeper exploration depending on what feels useful.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online work can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time, which helps fit sessions into a busy day. Different formats also let people choose quieter check-ins, turn-to tactics for coping between sessions, or focused goal-setting meetings without needing long commutes.
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Experience
10+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does he help with?
He focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, depression, grief, and family of origin issues among other concerns.
What is his therapeutic style?
Work is practical and goal-oriented. He combines brief, solution-focused methods with skills-based DBT and depth work when useful.
How much clinical experience does he bring?
He has 10 years of experience working with adults on a range of issues, including substance-use work gained during practicums and an internship.
What are his credentials and where is he based?
He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, CA LMFT, and practices in California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does he work with international clients?
He is not currently accepting international clients.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
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