Willow Smith, LPC

Biography

Willow Smith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 15 years of experience providing care to individuals, couples, and families. She is licensed in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Arizona, and brings a broad clinical background that includes residential treatment, holistic care settings, and work with children, adolescents, and adults. Willow has extensive experience supporting clients with anxiety, trauma and PTSD, self-esteem concerns, eating disorders, depression, substance use recovery, and family or relationship challenges.

Her approach is integrative and evidence-based, grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused CBT. She is certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), an image-replacement trauma treatment, and incorporates Family Systems Theory, The Gottman Method for couples, mindfulness practices, and creative arts techniques to support healing at both the individual and relational levels. Willow is committed to measurement-based care and regularly utilizes tools such as the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 to monitor progress and ensure treatment remains effective and goal-oriented.

Willow believes therapy is about more than symptom management—it is about meaningful personal growth. She strives to create a collaborative, empathetic, and safe therapeutic space where clients feel understood and empowered to move forward at their own pace. Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys spending time in nature, working out, baking, and playing with her dog, Blue.

Brightside offerings

Therapy Teen Therapy

Clinical Focus Areas

Anxiety Disorders Self Esteem Trauma and PTSD

Approach

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Family Systems Therapy

Languages

English

Identity

Female She/Her/Hers

Culture & faith

African American Asian and Pacific Islander Diasporic Cultures Catholicism Central African Cultures Central American Cultures Central Asian Cultures Christianity Diasporic or Black Culture Eastern European Cultures Indigenous Cultures Indigenous Spiritualities Jewish Culture Latin American Cultures North African Cultures North Asian Cultures South Asia Cultures Southeast Asian Cultures Southern European Cultures

Community & allyship

Chronic Illness Immigrants LGBTQ+ Men's Mental Health Neurodiversity People with Disabilities Single Mothers Survivors of Trauma and Abuse Veterans Women

Credentials

LPCMH

States served

Arizona California Massachusetts Virginia

Insurances accepted

Aetna All Savers Allegiance Benefit Plan Management Allied Benefit Systems Ambetter AmeriHealth Administrators (non-Medicaid plans) Anthem Blue Cross California Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Blue Shield of California Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Cigna GEHA Healthscopes Independence Blue Cross (IBX) Magellan Medica Meritain Health Nebraska Total Care New York City Employees Plan Oscar