Helen Smith, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in forensic issues and men’s issues in Knoxville, Tennessee. She holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee and master’s degrees from The New School for Social Research and the City University of New York.   She has worked with men, women and children in her private practice for more than twenty years.  She is now available at the Regenerative Complete office for counseling or consultation for  diagnosis and/or  treatment of anxiety, depression, anger issues, or mood disorders. She has written The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill, and was writer and executive producer of Six,  a documentary about the murder of a family in Tennessee by teens from Kentucky. The film highlights the inadequacies of the school, mental health and criminal justice systems in preventive treatment of troubled teens. More recently, Smith wrote Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters. 

Regenerative Complete is excited to welcome Dr. Helen Smith to our Staff. She will  be offering

three to four sessions as short term mental health counseling and consultation. The goals of the sessions will be to address the client's major concerns about their emotional health and how to learn to make changes that will improve their quality of life and reduce negative symptoms. Her treatment protocols are aligned with our Wavi Scan assessments and can provide a greater understanding of the results of our EEG.

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Kayla is our enthusiastic and caring provider who recently joined us from the University of Tennessee Medical Center. She grew up in Bristol, VA and obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from King University. She worked as a Registered Nurse in two different Comprehensive Stroke Centers in East Tennessee before going back to school to be a Family Nurse Practitioner.

Kayla is a graduate of Tusculum University where she earned her Master’s of Science in Nursing, and is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Nursing Credentialing Center.

She was introduced to Functional Medicine during her clinical hours in graduate school and believes that taking a natural approach to treatment provides the best outcomes for patients. In her spare time, Kayla enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, and boating on the lake.