Timi Smart, LCSW
Supportive LCSW helping parents find practical solutions
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 14
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Depression
About Timi
Timi Smart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Tennessee who centers her work on practical support and listening. She draws on 14 years of direct therapy work and a long social work career to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting concerns, and major life transitions. She focuses on clear, hands-on strategies that people can use between sessions.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with an emphasis on building on strengths a person already has.
Background and approach
Timi helps people sort through relationship strain, sleep difficulties, anger, and self-esteem struggles in simple, direct ways. Her background includes extensive social work experience across health and caregiver settings. That history informs how she talks about illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and aging-related issues.
She also brings knowledge around trauma, abuse, and dissociation when those topics come up. Timi uses approaches that include client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. Those tools are used to address practical problems like coping skills, communication issues, and setting achievable goals.
She is familiar with complex situations such as chronic illness, cancer caregiving, blended family challenges, and codependency. Her practical orientation aims to help people make steady changes and feel more able to handle daily pressures. If a parent is feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about next steps, Timi offers straightforward collaboration to clarify priorities and build manageable plans for change.
What Timi works with
Everything Timi lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Timi helps people with.
- 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.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy starts with the person and their priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what matters, and shapes sessions around each person's goals; this is useful for sorting parenting stress, relationship challenges, or life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping skills for day-to-day parenting demands.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple exercises. These practices can reduce reactivity, improve focus, and support self-soothing during times of overwhelm or grief.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Techniques can be adjusted over time as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues matter for communication. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging provide quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy family schedules.
Questions people ask about Timi
What concerns does Timi commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar, and career or coaching needs.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are conversational and client-centered with practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when helpful.
How long has she practiced?
She has 14 years of experience as a therapist and many additional years in social work across healthcare and caregiving roles.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Tennessee and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; appointments use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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