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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

04/30/2026

A couple of weeks back we had the privilege of interviewing on the RT Dialogue podcast.

Dr. Taylor is a theologian, author, professor, priest, artist — a polymath who I have longed to have on the podcast.

He is well known for his vision behind the famous Eugene Peterson and Bono short film The Psalms, as well as the author behind beautiful books like Open and Unafraid, Body of Praise, Prayers for the Pilgrimage and many more.

Dr. Taylor is a favorite of mine on Instagram, and after some recent posts, I was really interested in conversing around the idea of how we embody truth. How we prevent faith from just being an intellectual, head knowledge, and move it into a lived, heart experience. His work with Psalms and emotions has intrigued me the most lately.

He’s also a Texan living here south of me, so I was eager to connect online, and hope to connect in person someday. His work and the work we do in Restoration Therapy are beautiful conversation partners.

I hope you check out this episode (Episode 70) — all links are in the bio in my profile. And give him a follow on Instagram.

04/08/2026

A few months back, reached out to me to see if I would be interested in writing an article to address some of the things happening in our community.

I realize (like many of you), that the ongoing incendiary rhetoric coming out of the leadership in Washington and many of our local voices — negatively impacts many of our neighbors, and it dehumanizes all of us in the process.

So I try to address the roots of people’s emotional dysregulation in times like these. And speak to the root of the meaning of politics (polis), which is about how we conduct or communal life together, and the love for one another.

The apostle Paul in Philippians 1:27 uses the word to communicate that of the utmost importance is that we conduct our life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.

I ask you…are the politics you preach, the leaders you stand behind, and the way you talk about and conduct yourself with all neighbors, reflective of this virtue?

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.“ Dietrich Bonhoeffer/Life Together

03/31/2026

Was thankful for the opportunity to speak at ReGen tonight — ReGen has been a part of my restoration, and I’m super thankful for the friendship of Broc Jahnke and the community he has helped foster.

Spoke on Mark 2:1-5 tonight (story of the paralyzed man being carried by his friends to Jesus for healing) as it’s a powerful reminder in our journey towards restoration.

1) that we are powerless in engineering our own restoration and healing. God initiates our healing and we must choose to respond to it.

2) all restoration is communal, and its community that aids in the healing process.

The 12 steps lay out this journey beautifully.

P.S. photo of Broc reading the lyrics to The Banjo Song — resonate with healing and restoration. Here’s a snippet of lyrics.

[Verse 1]
On the dark side of the Earth
Where the creatures are out
I’m a man on the moon
And midnight ‘round my neck
And sunrise on my breath
I still wait for you

[Pre-Chorus]
Will you lay down all the things you’ve done?
Don’t turn your face around
You can come undone

[Chorus]
Well, hey, did you call? Did you fall?
Do you need someone? Do you need someone?
And hey, I’m a mess myself, but I think
I could be someone if you need someone
When I was alone, it was fine, I could deny all I like
I could just push back and make believe and it was alright
But, hey, did you call? Did you fall?
Do you need someone? I could be someone for you

03/18/2026

We were so honored a couple of weeks ago to have on our RT Dialogue podcast.

Brad is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Way of Excellence — which is a phenomenal read that resonates deeply with the kind of masters of our craft we aim to be in the Restoration Therapy community.

Brad’s books sit on the shelves in my therapy office, and not only have they transformed me and the type of person I aim to be, but I’m continually pulling them off the shelves and referencing passages in them to clients.

One thing I have always appreciated about Brad’s work is that he reads all the important authors and ideas, and then has the gift of synthesizing and distilling the information into easy to access concepts that one can practice in their daily lives.

Thanks Brad for taking the time to join us. and I really enjoyed it.

Links to Episode 65 can be found in the bio above (Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Substack)

03/12/2026

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. ” (Henri Nouwen)

Was back ReEngage ministry tonight to speak on the forgiveness journey.

Love the work they do there to transform marriages, and anytime I can talk about the model of forgiveness using the Restoration Therapy model — I’m all in!

02/05/2026

Just some brief comments on some of the books I’ve read the last few months…

Against The Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by the brilliant English writer, prophet and poet, Paul Kingsnorth | This is the most disturbing book I’ve read in a long time as he explores the all enveloping technological matrix we live and participate in, and the impact on our humanness. It’s a book that once you read, you can’t unsee things. His work reminds me a lot of the French philosopher and theologian Jacques Ellul. So don’t read if you like your naïveté.

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life by Helen Whybrow, who lives on a farm in Vermont. | This may be the most beautifully written book I’ve read in a long time. This piece in particular reminded me a lot of Annie Dillard’s 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Just such beautiful and descriptive prose.

Byung-Chul Han | I am late to the party reading this South Korean born, German philosopher. He has written a ton — and nowhere to be found online — and his thinking is profound on a lot of different topics. Very hard to read. But The Burnout Society got me started and I worked my way through The Scent of Time and The Crisis of Narration. Will keep on reading his work.

Table for Two by the American novelist Amor Towles | This was a beautiful piece of fiction, across multiple stories and time periods. He’s one of those fiction writers that makes every word count. It explores themes around relationships and identity (which I love as a therapist)…and much more. I still think his book A Gentleman in Moscow is one of the best pieces of fiction I have read.

So if you are looking for beautiful writing that challenges your thoughts and life. I highly recommend.

01/21/2026

I am pretty excited to announce that last week I received my license to practice therapy in the beautiful state of Colorado. I spent a lot of time there growing up in Arizona, and even more time there since moving to Texas in 2008.

Though I won’t have a physical office there (at least not yet), I can work with people via Telehealth. And some colleagues and I are currently exploring and working on bringing some intensives/retreats to Colorado. So awesome things on the way.

If you are curious in working with me, I am licensed as an LMFT in both TX and CO — so I can practice therapy from those states both in person and through Telehealth. And I am a Board Certified Executive/Leadership Coach (BCC) which allows me to coach people in person and online anywhere in the world.

Lots of things coalescing for me vocationally as I continue to hone in on the work I have been doing and love to do — while also traversing down new paths. 2026 is going to be an adventurous year.

01/15/2026

We did it!!!!

and I wrapped up 50 episodes of Season 1 of the RT Dialogue. When we started recording in January of 2025 we weren’t sure where we would take the podcast, but it has been a blast. And we already launched Season 2 last week.

The RT Dialogue is a conversation about the therapy model Restoration Therapy, developed by Dr Terry Hargrave. But it’s more than a model. For many decades, Terry and his wife Sharon (founder of Relate Strong) have fostered a deep community of practitioners (therapists, coaches, mental health leaders, pastors, lay leaders, etc) who are doing some of the best work out there. In a world that sells you quick fixes and cheap tricks, they’ve developed and honed theory and practice that transforms lives…that brings restoration.

We spent all of 2025 interviewing RT practitioners, sharing interventions, and connecting the community. We will continue that in 2026, but are also excited to bring on more and more practitioners outside of RT, looking for commonalities. And we are really excited about sharing more interventions you can practice in your daily life to create everlasting change.

If you are interested in the work we are doing (whether you are a practitioner or not), you can check us out on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and our RT Dialogue Substack. All links are in the bio above.

*one fun note: our podcast made the top 10% globally of all podcasts for videos viewed 💪

Here’s to Season 2 of the RT Dialogue 👏

12/12/2025

A few weeks back I was invited to spend the day with some CEO’s as part of their YPO Forum (Young President’s Organization). I was asked to prepare some things to discuss with these leaders that would be helpful. I spent a few weeks preparing a conversation around well-differentiated leadership, and building healthy relationships in the work place and at home.

After a couple of hours listening I decided to abandon my “presentation” and lean instead into what was becoming evident in the room regarding the challenges they were facing.

Years ago I probably would have let my anxiety get ahold of me in a moment of pivot. But all the personal work over the years on my own anxiety, and the increasing work around anxiety that shows up in the people I work with, helped prepare me for such a situation.

One of the best gifts we can offer ourselves and others, is a non-anxious presence. It’s in those moments that the beauty unfolds.

Thankful for the privilege to spend time with those men, and end the day at an amazing dinner.

10/19/2025

What a beautiful book that captures a life well lived. I have always admired the work of Dallas Willard and the way that he lived his life. This book only increases that admiration.

I first met Dallas Willard sometime around 2005-2007. I don’t remember the exact date, but I remember one of my college students from USC inviting him to come speak to the college group at Bel Air Presbyterian where I was the college pastor. I remember him showing up in his suit and tie and taking a seat on the front row, worshipping along with all the students from USC, UCLA, LMU, and those college aged kids pursuing acting and music in Los Angeles.

And when he got up and spoke, you could hear a pin drop.

He lived a deeply rooted spiritual life, and it oozed out of him in a way that made you want to know more about how you could experience that deep life. It was contagious.

This last Friday, our little book club sat around talking about how deeply the book impacted us personally, and how important the deeply formed spiritual life is needed in our frantic churches and communities and lives today.

To see one’s theological development and spiritual practice take place over a long period of time, has been a good reminder of that “long obedience in the same direction” that Eugene Peterson so eloquently wrote about.

Thanks for the reminder Dallas.

10/16/2025

As the recipient of deep forgiveness and restoration in my own life, I was excited to plumb the depths tonight with married couples ReEngage ministry. It’s a topic that is messy and I think really misunderstood in our culture, and especially in the Church.

We named and addressed the divine dynamics of justice, love and power (i.e. the work of theologian Paul Tillich) at work in relationships, and how they become complicated to navigate on a forgiveness journey. And why they all have to be addressed in a balance that brings peace. I utilized the model by my Restoration Therapy colleagues Lance and Jennifer Ahl to help couples identity where they are in this process.

And then we connected the messy interplay of these dynamics towards the pathway of forgiveness in the Restoration Therapy model.

It’s a very hard and difficult journey for couples to not bury, and sweep things under the rug in their relationship, but to instead bravely address justice, love and power in a way that couples can experience deep forgiveness. Deep in your bones forgiveness.

And I am reminded that in our marriage we must continually hold in tension the truth that our partners are created in God’s image, redeemed by Jesus, and have the power of the Spirit at work in their life. (i.e. I love the work of the pastors theologian Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger and her application to theologian Karl Barth’s Trinitarian theology).

Ultimately, I am thankful for the work of Dr. Terry Hargrave and his model of Restoration Therapy. There is no better model in my opinion, and his work on forgiveness is far and above any work that I have seen. Thankful for his mentorship and friendship over all these years, and helping me navigate some deep waters in the area of forgiveness, both personally and in my work professionally.

What a powerful evening together…

09/29/2025

It seems as if we are living in a cultural moment where reactivity is at an all time high, and people are struggling to emotionally self-regulate — leading to all kinds of issues personally and relationally.

We thought it was a good time to bring on the founders of the Restoration Therapy and Relate Strong models — Terry and Sharon Hargrave. They are dear friends and mentors and very wise in how to navigate the tension around us.

In this episode they discuss how people, when emotionally dysregulated, move from reactivity to polarization to eventually entitled extremism. You see this arc in online political discussions, cultural wars, and more.

It’s an important discussion — and it’s important to ask hard questions of one’s self and where along the continuum one currently is. It’s worth looking even at what you posted on social media in the last few weeks.

Check out our conversation on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc. All the links are 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.