Colleen Canfield-Smith, LMHC

Colleen Canfield-Smith offers a compassionate, supportive approach that helps people explore the issues and challenges they face and identify the strengths they already possess to create meaningful change. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative partnership, inviting clients to take an active role in determining goals and guiding the work while she provides professional skill and support.

Her background spans work in schools, hospitals, community service agencies, and primary care settings, and she draws on that broad experience to understand the practical stresses of daily life. As a mother of three and caregiver to two large dogs, she also brings real-world perspective on family dynamics and parenting to clinical work.

She holds a Master’s degree in counseling psychology from Boston College and certifications in integrated behavioral health for both pediatrics and primary care. She is an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - and integrates client-centered practices with cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, and strength-based approaches to address issues such as anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, job stress, grief, and life transitions.

Her work often incorporates mindfulness, relaxation training, and appropriate use of humor to ease the therapeutic process and build practical coping skills. Throughout treatment she treats clients as the experts on their own needs, collaborating to tailor interventions that support lasting progress.