About Timi
Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker in Tennessee who centers sessions on each person's strengths. She brings 14 years of direct therapy experience and a long background in social work to her practice. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, and depression with clear tools and steady support. Grief and coping with life changes are also areas she addresses, along with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and parenting strain.
How Timi works
Trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue are among other focus areas. Her approach draws on client-centered work that follows a person's lead, plus cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness strategies and solution-focused planning are used to build coping skills and small achievable goals.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about making a change. Timi's earlier social work roles involved cancer care, hospice, dementia and long-term care settings, adoption and foster care, and caregiver stress. That background informs how she talks about chronic illness, caregiving burden, and aging-related issues.
It also shaped her work with communication, blended family concerns, and commitment or control struggles. Sessions are offered in English and delivered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules appointments according to therapist availability.
Timi lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Timi works with
The areas below are the ones Timi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Online approaches that fit your life
Timi uses client-centered work that follows the person's own goals and strengths, helping people feel heard while they decide what to change. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to make sense of their situation.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and small homework tasks. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by teaching skills people can apply between sessions.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help people notice stress reactions and stay grounded during difficult moments. These brief practices can reduce rumination and make it easier to try other coping tools.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then try strategies together and adjust based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for conversational therapy and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to schedule regular work without long travel times.
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