Timi Smart, LCSW
Compassionate, practical support for life’s hard moments
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How Timi works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Timi
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and life transitions. She brings 14 years of therapy experience and a long career in social work to her sessions. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental, and she encourages clients to use their own strengths in change.
She frames each conversation around practical steps a person can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in hospice, long-term care, hospitals, and adoption and foster care systems. That history informs how she talks about caregiving strain, chronic illness, and coping with loss. She has supported people dealing with parenting strains, relationship concerns, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
Timi integrates approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy to build straightforward plans. She helps people spot patterns that worsen mood or anger, then tries small behavior changes to test different ways of responding. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and checking what worked since the last meeting.
She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when people need clear steps and encouragement for change. These methods are practical and short-term focused when that fits the person's needs. She supports people navigating career stress, ADHD challenges, self-esteem difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
In session she listens first, then collaborates on realistic, doable steps. Timi asks clients what matters most and tailors recommendations to daily life in Tennessee and beyond.
What Timi works with
Everything Timi lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Timi's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Timi lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on what the person already knows about their life. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns, and helps set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific strategies to change them; it works well for anxiety, anger, and mood problems and often uses homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means techniques can shift over time as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different days and schedules. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone calls can be better when bandwidth is limited, chat or text work well for quick check-ins or brief coaching, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines.
Questions people ask about Timi
What concerns does Timi commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, anger, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include caregiving strain, chronic illness, parenting stresses, and trauma-related issues.
What is her approach in therapy sessions?
Sessions emphasize a person-centered style paired with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness techniques. She aims for practical steps people can try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of therapy experience and decades of social work practice in settings such as hospice, hospitals, and long-term care.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an LCSW credential and practices in Tennessee.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Work can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are costs structured?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.