About Chloe
Chloe Smith-Ferguson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois who supports people managing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges like sleep disruption, anger, ADHD, parenting strains, and relationship or family problems.
Background and approach
She helps clients address life transitions, build coping skills, reframe unhelpful thinking, and take practical steps toward personal goals. Chloe integrates targeted strategies to address complex presentations including co-morbidity, mood disorders, panic, paranoia, and issues tied to prejudice or multicultural concerns.
Her practice emphasizes collaborative care in which the client’s priorities lead the work while she provides clinical guidance and skill-building. Trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing, Chloe draws from these methods to tailor interventions to each person’s needs.
She completed an interprofessional fellowship with the Veterans Health Administration where she provided individual and group therapy, and she holds an Illinois LCSW license (IL LCSW 149.021464). With eight years of clinical experience, Chloe aims to help people clarify values, reduce distress, and create actionable plans for meaningful change.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Chloe commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) alongside mindfulness-based techniques. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking committed actions toward those values while learning to accept difficult internal experiences, a helpful fit for life changes, chronic stress, and mood challenges. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness practices to build emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness when needed.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Chloe works with clients to explore which methods match their goals, preferences, and the nature of their concerns, and she adapts interventions over time based on what proves most helpful in session and daily life.
Online therapy with Chloe is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These options make it easier to access consistent care from licensed professionals, fit appointments into busy lives, and use therapeutic tools between sessions for ongoing progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English