Dr. Stephanie Smith, CSAT, CAADC

Currently Dr. Stephanie Smith is working full time at Smith Psychotherapy and can be reached at 601-549-2300 or Dr.ssmith32@gmail.com. She has extensive training in trauma and ways it manifest in Depression and Anxiety, Sex and Chemical addiction as well as process disorders such as Eating Disorders, shopping, and compulsive numbing. Additionally, she works helping those surviving from ritual abuse and human trafficking. Dr. Smith treats the whole person, not just some parts of them. She believes people are capable of change that results in post traumatic growth and sees the clinician as a guide or navigator toward that change. Prior to returning full time to her practice, she was the Clinical Director of the Women’s Center treatment program at Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, MS. Dr. Smith earned her Doctor of Social Work (DSW) in Clinical Practice and Leadership from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Mississippi since 2009. Dr. Smith has specialized training in TF-CBT, child-parent psychotherapy, integrative treatment for complex trauma and did forensic interviewing. Her areas of expertise include treating substance use disorders with co-occurring eating disorders, sex and love addiction, emerging adult depression, adult and child complex trauma, child welfare, mothers with borderline personality disorder, and couples engaged in high conflict divorce.