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Rhett Smith, Marriage and Family Therapist

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Rhett Smith, Marriage and Family Therapist

Face your anxiety with courage, and experience meaningful connection to self and others.

I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in working with individuals and couples around a wide variety of issues...most people these days are coming to see me with their anxiety issues. I'm the author of The Anxious Christian: Can God Use Your Anxiety for Good? (Moody Publishers), What it Means to be a Man: God's Design for Us in a World Full of Extremes (Moody Publishers), and 4 Reminders for Men Who Love God (Moody Publishers)

You can read more of my writing at my blog at www.rhettsmith.com

09/03/2025

We recently moved our daughter into college almost 2000 miles away. And I have done a lot of reflecting over the last year on this transition. And how the understanding of transition is critical for a change to “take” — in the words of author William Bridges.

“Our society confuses them constantly, leading us to imagine that transition is just another word for change. But it isn’t. Change is your move to a new city or your shift to a new job. It is the birth if your new baby or the death of your father. It is the switch from the old health plan at work to a new one, or the replacement of your manager by a new one, or it is the acquisition that your company just made.

In other words, change is situational. Transition on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation and self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t ‘take’. Whatever word we use, our society talks a lot about change; but it seldom deals with transition. Unfortunately for us, it is the transition that blind-sides us and is often the source of our troubles”. (Transitions by William Bridges)

It’s been a beautifully disorienting season and I cherish this journey we are all on, and I hope my latest post on my Substack is helpful and hopeful to you.

All links in the bio above.

08/10/2025

“Practice is the only pathway to change.” — Dr Terry Hargrave | Founder of Restoration Therapy

It has been a very busy season, but we are carrying on each week with new episodes of the RT Dialogue.

and I are so thankful to have Terry Hargrave not only as a mentor — but to be able to call him friend…is such a gift.

In this episode we cover a lot of topics, and a lot of focus is on the nature of therapy itself, and the importance of moving insight into practice…otherwise, nothing changes.

I encourage you to check all the episodes in our first season so far of RT Dialogue. You can find us on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube and Substack. All the links are in the bio above.

We hope you find these conversations insightful and inspiring, and that the practice we encourage leads to change in your life and others.

07/19/2025

“Being dependent on your partner to regulate your emotions or meet your needs is called emotional coregulation…But as we grow, maturity demands that we learn to self-sooth and emotionally stabilize ourselves…You see, emotional coregulation, while totally appropriate for children, is not a great strategy for married adults…This kind of emotional dependency and connection is much more like parenting that it is partnering.” (The Mindful Marriage: Create Your Best Relationship Through Understanding and Managing Yourself)

This morning I spoke at Preston Trail Community Church’s marriage conference, and I had the opportunity to encourage them to think on how they approach marriage — from a coregulating/parenting dynamic, or from an emotionally self-regulating/partnering dynamic?

Many of the popular relationship books we read, the podcasts we listen to, the sermons we hear, the advice our friends give (especially in Christian communities) often promote coregulation.

In the Restoration Therapy community we believe there is a better, more empowering way to show up in your marriage, and so it was fun to help couples this morning identify their pain and peace cycles and put them into practice in the audience and on stage.

I am so grateful to be a part of the Restoration Therapy community who has taught me so much about love and trust and restoration, and has imparted the importance of ongoing practice in our personal lives and the work we do professionally.

05/31/2025

In the Fall a few guys and I started a “book club”.

We’ve been working our way through books (all kinds of topics) and meeting once a month over coffee to discuss.

To discuss the book and how it impacted us. What we learned. What was challenging. How it informed our work. Our relationships. All kinds of things.

This book left a huge impact on us, and stirred up a lot of things in our life and how we want to move forward. Not a surprise since I read book Endure three times over a 4-5 year period. Each time learning new things that shaped my life.

So I picked his new book for our “book club” and it didn’t disappoint. And beyond my “book club” I’m in an ongoing discussion with and about this book.

Thanks Alex for your work and your contribution to helping us live a more meaningful life.

05/20/2025

It was a big joy this last Sunday to read a passage of scripture for my daughter’s high school baccalaureate.

I got to read from a bible (and share the story) that my college ministry leaders from UCLA, USC and Loyola Marymount gave me back in 2008. They were in the process of graduating and we were moving from Los Angeles to Dallas, and transitioning from being a minister to being a therapist.

In the bible my students highlighted their favorite passages that helped them navigate through that season of college, and it’s beautiful these days to talk to them (some in their late 30’s and early 40’s) and see how that journey shaped them into the people they are today.

So excited for my daughter and all the high school graduates who are about to embark on this exciting new transition in life.

04/17/2025

If you are a Christian woman, struggling with anxiety — this retreat is for you!

My great friends and colleagues and .mayer are leading a 3 day anxiety intensive with 6 women, in the beautiful mountainous town of Julian, CA.

I believe in the power of Restoration Therapy to change lives, and the anxiety intensive model we developed and have honed over the last few years has helped individuals experience huge breakthroughs with their anxiety.

I’ve been leading intensives for 15 years and I honestly don’t know any therapeutic context that shifts one’s life as quickly and powerfully. So I hope you can join my friends for this great opportunity to transform your anxiety.

Link for registration: meghaneakentherapy.com/anxietyintensive

04/01/2025

Had the privilege to speak tonight at ReGen at my home church — it’s a ministry I’m intimately familiar with, and ultimately thankful for.

When life falls apart we are in a hurry to fix it as quickly as possible. But what we soon learn to our own dismay is that God is not in a hurry.

On this journey through life it will involve many stops along the way while in the wilderness (Exodus 17:1; Numbers 33, etc), and while we want to rush from captivity to promise, God is more concerned about the type of people we are being shaped into. And that’s a longer process than we would like. A lifetime really.

Or as Eugene Peterson says in his book of the same title…it’s “a long obedience in the same direction”.

The challenge is to hold in tension both our hope for the healing that awaits our restorative work, while being present to the hope around us each day.

Thanks for the beautiful worship tonight

03/25/2025

It is crazy that it was 10 years ago today that I launched my podcast. It has been a slow labor of love, often done in seasons.

Felt like I had a lot to say those first few years, but then found a more even pace for me, trying to not retread on the same topics.

It’s still up and running, but these days it’s reserved for the times when I have new things I want to explore with guests. And I am really loving co-hosting the RT Dialogue podcast with right now. So much synergy there, especially around a model of therapy we love — Restoration Therapy.

Special thanks to my great friend being my first guest back in 2015. He has been with me through a lot 💪

Cheers to new and engaging conversations in the years to come.

03/24/2025

If you haven’t had a chance to tune in yet — our new RT Dialogue podcast is up on Spotify and Apple (links in the bio). We are 6 episodes in with many to come.

My Restoration Therapy colleague and I are co-hosting the show, and engaging lots of Restoration Therapy therapists, as well as exploring a variety of topics.

It’s often an inside look into what happens in the therapy room and the different interventions and practices that help clients thrive.

We hope you check us out and if you have a particular topic you would like us to explore, let us know.

03/10/2025

We are 5 episodes into the newly launched RT Dialogue podcast.

But one of our favorites of course, was sitting down with Terry and Sharon Hargrave, the founders of Restoration Therapy.

In this episode we talk about the origin stories of RT, and Terry’s development of the model as he trained with some of the greats in the marriage and family therapy field, eventually breaking away from Contextual Family Therapy, and creating Restoration Therapy.

They have a ton of great stories, and I’m continually thankful to have been trained and mentored by Terry the last 15 years — and to be a part of such a great community of people.

Check out this episode, Season 1 | Episode 4 of the RT Dialogue.

Links to the podcast and video are in the bio above.

03/05/2025

New post today at my Substack, An Integrated Life.

Been reflecting a lot on Parker Palmer’s writing on vocation and calling from his powerful book, Let Your Life Speak.

That book has been a companion of mine for about 15 years. And I find myself in this season working on being still, calming the noise, and listening for that voice.

Would love for you to subscribe to my Substack if you haven’t. It’s free of course, and the link is in my bio above.

03/02/2025

About 27 months ago a handful of us were sitting around WinShape mate one night, dreaming about the future of Restoration Therapy, and the need to bring the community together again for another summit.

After lots of dreaming, and the last 14 months on the planning committee, it all came together better than we ever could have imagined.

We spent the last few days in Amarillo ( a nod to the founders Terry and Sharon Hargrave’s beginnings) learning, training, but most importantly…being in community with an amazing collection of people.

This community truly embodies the name of the model…restoration. And for that I am forever grateful.

We have big plans ahead for the next summit in 2027.

If you are a therapist, ministry leader, coach, educator, or just curious about RT. Join our community, train with us, and engage in the conversation.

All links in the bio above.

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I believe that it is my job to create an emotionally safe and open environment so you are free to be yourself. In this environment I hope to help you not only gain insight about your life, but help you develop and implement skills and tools you can practice. It is this insight + practice that leads to transformation.

I love working with a variety of issues and most often specialize in relational issues (i.e. marriage, dating, family, , etc.), anxiety and depression (identifying root causes, managing symptoms, and reframing as an opportunity for growth), issues around faith, grief, and personal development and wellness.

One of the things that makes my practice unique is that I'm not just a therapist, but I speak at conferences, teach workshops, lead marriage intensives, and record a weekly podcast. I'm also author of The Anxious Christian & What it Means to be a Man.