Carol's Background:

Carol Smith, M.Div., LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and ACPE Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy Trainer. She serves as Director of Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy Training at Insight Counseling Centers, where she practices in Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee.  Carol is currently the Chair of the Psychotherapy Commission of ACPE.

With over 18 years at Insight Counseling Centers, Carol provides individual, couple, and family counseling while supervising master’s level students and post-master’s practitioners. Her professional background includes service as Minister of Childhood Education at Forest Hills Baptist Church. She holds EMDR Level II certification and specializes in spiritually-integrated psychotherapy.

Carol earned her Master of Marriage & Family Therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University and her Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her clinical expertise addresses aging, couples counseling, intimacy, grief, depression, divorce, trauma, spirituality, religion, and pre-marital counseling.

Carol’s therapeutic approach is rooted in meeting clients where they are and walking with them toward wholeness. She offers acceptance, encouragement, exhortation, and faith as gifts in the process, helping individuals move toward integration, engage self and others with courage and grace, and share their uniqueness in life-giving ways.


Content & Course Format:

The SIP training program is a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It serves licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals (i.e., counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction specialists, and more), as well as graduate students in any of those disciplines who seek to explore the ways spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning influence their own lives and the lives of their clients.



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