About Timi
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of direct therapy experience and a long background in social work. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and the strain that comes with big life changes.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she centers the person in front of her as the expert of their own story. She brings practical skills to sessions. Timi uses approaches like client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented rather than lecture-based. Timi's past work spans hospitals, hospice, long-term care, and social work roles related to cancer, dementia, and caregiver stress. That background gives her experience with health-related concerns, chronic illness, and the emotional work of caregiving and loss.
She also has experience with adoption and foster care matters and with issues that arise after trauma and abuse. People who come to Timi often want support with relationships, parenting stress, sleep trouble, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, or career questions. She also helps with more specific concerns such as abandonment, blended family issues, chronic pain, and coping after disasters or crises.
Timi works from Tennessee and conducts sessions in English. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and encourages small, manageable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier daily routines.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with respect and helping people name their goals and strengths. Online sessions let that conversation happen through video, phone, chat, or text so clients can explore feelings and priorities in a way that fits their day.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT often uses short exercises and homework between meetings to practice new skills for anxiety, depression, sleep, or stress management.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These techniques translate well to online formats and can be practiced during a video visit or reinforced through brief messages and check-ins.
Timi will work with each person to find the right mix of approaches. She treats the choice of method as a collaboration, adjusting techniques to match the client's goals, preferences, and pace. That shared decision-making helps set clear, manageable steps forward.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick check-ins or shorter exchanges between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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