Timi Smart, LCSW
Licensed in Tennessee · 14 years in practice
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care.
License and registration
- LCSW, Tennessee
- 0007605 · expires May 2026
- NPI
- 1679298616 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
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About Timi
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses a straightforward style and listens for what matters most to each person. Timi helps people deal with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes.
She also supports those facing relationship and parenting strains, sleep trouble, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges linked to ADHD or bipolar mood concerns. With 14 years as a practicing therapist and a long history in social work, Timi draws on wide experience with caregivers, cancer, dementia, and adoption and foster care matters.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in hospitals, hospice, and long-term care settings, which shaped how she approaches complex needs and layered health or caregiving stress. In sessions she follows a client-centered approach, meaning the conversation stays focused on each person's goals and strengths.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and mindfulness strategies to build calm and tolerance for difficult moments. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used when people want clear, achievable change. Timi aims to make the process feel manageable.
She helps people break problems into small steps, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress. Her manner is described as warm and nonjudgmental, and she encourages realistic, steady movement toward better daily functioning. People who contact Timi can expect plain language, concrete tools, and collaborative goal-setting.
She works from Tennessee and conducts sessions in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Timi lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and strengths. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people choose what to work on next. This approach is helpful for those facing grief, caregiver stress, or major life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger.
Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build tolerance for difficult emotions. These skills are useful alongside CBT when people want tools for managing intense moments.
Timi treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and preferences, then suggest a blend of methods to try. Adjustments are made as needed so the plan fits the person’s pace and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or texting can suit brief updates, coaching-style support, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the methods described above.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
Timi works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, sleep problems, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career issues, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and related challenges.
What is the therapy style like?
Her approach is client-centered and practical. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused steps to help people make changes that fit their lives.
What experience does she bring?
She has 14 years of experience as a therapist and decades of social work practice, including work with cancer, dementia, hospice, hospitals, long-term care, and adoption and foster care matters.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She is licensed as an LCSW in Tennessee. Sessions are provided from Tennessee and follow the scope of that licensure.
In which languages are sessions available?
Sessions are offered in English only.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
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