Alba Perez Smith, LICSW

Alba Perez Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) in Rhode Island who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She works with concerns such as trauma, LGBT-related issues, low self-esteem, grief, and mood challenges. Alba speaks English and Spanish and aims to support people taking first steps toward change.

Alba approaches therapy as a partnership. She treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps, clear goals, and steady progress rather than jargon or long explanations.

Her background includes work with caregivers and people facing adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, and the stress that comes from caregiving roles. She also has experience addressing anger, sleep problems, addiction-related concerns, and emotional overwhelm like emptiness or guilt.

With three years of practice as an LICSW, Alba blends practical techniques with attentive listening. She helps people sort priorities, try small experiments between sessions, and learn new habits that fit daily life. The aim is to make therapy useful and doable.

Clients can expect clear communication about goals and ongoing adjustments to what is working. Alba supports people through career strain, immigration-related stress, gender dysphoria issues, and the challenges of disruptive mood patterns. Her work centers on helping people find manageable ways to cope and move forward.

How Alba’s approaches guide online therapy

Alba uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach she uses involves problem-focused strategies that help people break large stressors into small steps and test new behaviors between sessions. This approach can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and day-to-day coping challenges.

She also integrates trauma-informed listening and care that helps people name difficult experiences and build safety with pacing that feels manageable. That kind of work aims to reduce overwhelm and strengthen emotion regulation when trauma or abuse are part of someone’s history.

Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Alba will work with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they check what helps and adapt the plan over time so sessions remain relevant and useful.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, allow a quieter check-in during a break, or reduce the need to be on camera for every visit. These practical benefits often make it easier to keep progress steady while balancing daily responsibilities.