Chinara Smith
As a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, I have been called to advocate in this field due to my natural and genuine ability to assist those with mental health challenges while providing peace and a solution to their pains, traumas, and confusion. I am from the South, Atlanta Georgia. I have southern hospitality roots, providing kindness and compassion within my clinical expertise with every client I encounter. I have an extensive educational background, along with ten years of psychiatric clinical training. I have provided services within the healthcare industry for over 16 years.
My greatest strength as a provider is I am an individual who is transparent and doesn’t mind relating on a personal level.
First session
Your very first session with me will be AMAZING! Yes, I said AMAZING! I believe all things are possible no matter how hard life may be for you right now. I will inform you that I am a very bubbly/positive provider. I will challenge you. I will not tell you what you want to hear. I promise to always be honest. I am ready!
Strengths
My greatest strength as a provider is I am an individual who is transparent and doesn’t mind relating on a personal level. I understand that at any given moment, life can change for any of us. Because of that, I take every individual's mental health challenge important
Ideal clients
I treat clients across the lifespan, children and adults, who suffer from mental illness, with the goal of reducing healthcare disparities. I believe in high quality of care, not quantity of care. An authentic approach is used, which is very important when it comes to individualized care, as every patient’s mental health challenge is different.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used as a talk therapy to help manage an individual's thought process by changing the way they think and or behave.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a type of talk therapy used with conditions associated with issues that result from unhealthy or problematic efforts to control/those who experience intense emotions.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps individuals identify their emotions, learn to explore and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them. Emotionally Focused Therapy embraces the idea that emotions can be changed.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive provides therapy that is culturally sensitive. I understand there are many from different backgrounds who have different values, practices, beliefs, and I am sensitive to those differences when working with individuals and or families.
Christian Counseling
Christian counseling is a treatment method used with those who identify as a Christian that combines their faith with principles to help improve their mental health and relationships. More specifically, this therapy approach identify behaviors that are inconsistent with one's belief to help manage life’s challenges.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- ColoradoLicense C-APN.0002987-C-NP
- GeorgiaLicense APRN-NP235121
- New MexicoLicense 72492