Our Team

Rachael Tanner-Smith, LPC-MHSP, PMHNP-BC, serves as the psychiatric nurse practitioner at Milestones. As a dually licensed counselor and psychiatric nurse practitioner with nearly twenty years of clinical and leadership experience across levels of care and over a decade of teaching mindfulness and meditation, she is uniquely qualified to support clients in creating a life they love.

Before training as a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University, she served as both primary therapist and clinical director at outpatient substance use and trauma treatment centers. Rachael brings her love of experiential clinical work, such as EMDR, Brainspotting, sand tray, and contemplative approaches, into her work as a nurse practitioner.