Timi Smart
Practical, compassionate support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Timi
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on person-centered care to support people through hard moments. She uses straightforward talk, practical tools, and steady listening to address stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting questions, family tensions, and life changes. Timi keeps language plain and focuses on what matters to the person in front of her.
She has 14 years of direct therapy experience and many years working in social work settings.
Background and approach
Before becoming an LCSW Timi worked across health and community settings. Her background includes work with cancer care, dementia and older adults, hospice, long-term care, hospitals, and adoption and foster care situations. That variety shaped a practical approach to everyday problems and complex life transitions.
Timi blends client-centered work with evidence-based tools like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when helpful. In sessions she helps people name patterns, try small changes, and build coping skills that fit their daily life.
She is experienced supporting parenting concerns, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and relationship communication problems. Other clinical focuses include trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, chronic illness and pain, and bereavement. Timi practices in Tennessee as LCSW TN LCSW 0007605.
She speaks English and offers therapy using multiple online formats. If a parent or caregiver is unsure where to start, she aims to make the first steps simple and clear.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's priorities. The therapist follows each person's lead, offers empathy, and helps clarify goals; this approach supports issues like parenting stress, grief, and relationship communication.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleeping, and coping with life changes.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple awareness exercises. These short practices can reduce reactivity to stress and support emotional regulation in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps clients find tools that fit their routines and parenting roles.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people connect from home, fit short sessions around busy days, and use written tools between sessions. For many parents and caregivers, the variety of online options makes it easier to keep progress moving while managing family responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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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