Mattie Smith

Accepting Clients

Hi, I'm Mattie

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Arizona

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples

About My Clients

I am wholeheartedly committed to psychotherapy not only as an avenue for individual growth and healing, but also, as a way of empowering individuals to work towards social transformation and collective liberation.

My Background and Approach

I look forward to working collaboratively with clients, providing an authentic, non-judgmental, and empathic space in which we deepen levels of insight and explore new, more adaptive modes of being in the world. Centering a queer, feminist, and decolonial lens in my own practice means that I aim to examine and attend to the operation of power and privilege in our lives. My approach is psychoanalytically based, and is rooted in relational, attachment, and trauma-informed theories and practices, with a special interest in somatics, affective neuroscience, and mindfulness.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

While attentive to the ways in which we are all shaped by our early relationships, environment, and experiences, I believe in the healing power that comes from exploring how relational patterns emerge in the here-and-now. Through this work one can find greater agency and freedom by expanding our capacities for connection, flexibility, and nuance.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Attachment Theory Psychodynamic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Attachment Theory
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Attachment Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Other Issues
  • Addiction
  • Aging Concerns
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Men's Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Personality Disorders
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Sexual Problems
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 5 years of practice
  • Rate: $150/session

Reach out to Mattie