Derrick Smith Counseling
Hello There
Tennessee
Passionate About People
Therapy is an exceptional tool to help people reach their potential. I love counseling because it touches all the most beautiful and also most tender parts of our story. Healing is beautiful. Growth is beautiful. It's my desire for myself and others that we may always be graciously growing. Therapy has played a role in helping me be at peace in life. I'm honored to have the opportunity to help others build or repair the foundation of who they are. There are a few things I'm passionate about addressing in this world: loneliness, isolation, old wounds, and stagnation.
I help people to address their wants and needs in productive ways. I will help you identify the parts of you that might be neglected. Being at peace and confident in who you are is a gift.
Derrick Smith Counseling
My Goals For Your Life
My aim is to offer the best therapeutic relationship that empowers you to navigate life's challenges, be safe and healthy inside yourself, and take every step in life from a solid foundation that you've built. As you share your story with me, I am committed to listening empathically and taking an active role in helping you reach your goals. By focusing on deep self-awareness and loving yourself well, I help people shed stagnation, grow to new levels, and to show up in life how they want to. Together, we'll graciously address things that are holding you back, while also not permitting them to hold you back any longer. My goal is to guide those who want to live freely and intentionally, rather than bound by old wounds or passively stagnant.
Where Are You At?
"I'm building my base."
As treacherous as this work sometimes feels, it's also immensely exciting to work on yourself in this way. To discover and define who you are and who you will be is a gift to yourself. You love yourself well when you do this work. You're better able to show up in life for yourself and others the way that you want to.
"I've got a foundation. I'm addressing specific challenges."
Often times life throws us a curveball that we don't feel ready for. Even with a foundation of knowing yourself, it's helpful to overcome these challenges with a trusted therapist. When you're feeling challenged, it's empowering to know you are addressing the challenge head on, with strength and also grace for yourself. You're not ignoring it, you're bringing your best self to it.
"I'm doing fine-tuned work on my inner self."
Even after years of deep personal work, we can find ourselves wanting to fine-tune how we operate. This is not the same as building-blocks kind of work. This is with precision tools. We feel confident and secure, but we're pursuing that next-level growth.
Derrick Smith
Licensed professional counselor - mental health service provider
When you choose to work with me, you can expect to feel refreshed and confident as you notice yourself gaining traction on your challenges and goals. In session together we'll go deep and explore your wants, needs, behaviors, and thoughts in a way that makes sense of your story. It's my goal to walk alongside you as you do the work and at times point out paths that would be insightful to explore. I feel so honored to be trusted with stories of pain, challenge, and heartbreak. And I feel so privileged to build counseling relationships and see clients step into more peace, hope, and confidence in life.
I have experienced heartbreak and the sorrow of stagnation. I have felt the sinking feeling of not being invested in my own life. The power of a secure bond and the power of 'doing the work,' rather than ignoring it, is truly transformational.
I'm an Enneagram 9. I've worked in youth ministry for over a decade. I'm the oldest of four brothers and love our relationships.