Timi Smart , LCSW

Timi Smart is a licensed clinical social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people through hard moments. She brings 14 years of therapy experience and a long career in social work to each session. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use right away.

Timi often helps with stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She guides people coping with life changes, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and career concerns. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Her background includes extensive social work in settings that serve people facing illness and caregiving demands. That experience informs how she helps clients manage chronic pain, cancer-related stress, caregiver burnout, and aging or geriatric concerns. She has also worked with adoption and foster care issues and blended family situations.

Timi blends client-centered work with practical tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions aim to build on what a person already does well while testing small changes that can improve daily life. She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that feels manageable.

People who choose her can expect clear goals, steady encouragement, and tools to practice between sessions. Timi aims to make the process understandable and useful, whether someone is dealing with a recent loss or a long-standing problem.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person telling their story and identifying their own goals. In online sessions this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set realistic steps to try between meetings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. Online CBT sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or lift mood.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity to stress. These practices can be guided during a video call or supported through short text check-ins between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when fuller interaction helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, try quick coping strategies, or check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health schedules.