Craig Smith

Primary Specialties

• Anxiety
• Men's Issues
• Depression
• Trauma

Also Experienced With

• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
• ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Adjustment Issues
• Aging
• Communication Issues
• Existential Approach
• Grief/Loss
• Humanistic Approach
• PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder)
• Parenting
• Relationships
• Solution Focused
• Strength-Based Therapy
• Stress
• Substance Use/Abuse
• Suicidal Ideation

Overview

I practice a combination of Existential, Solution Focus, and Person-Centered Therapy. Modalities that assume the control of your life, lies within you. Practicing in that way allows me to listen and hear a person without trying to take responsibility or shape their life. Hear what you’re good at, what worked before, or what's really important to you. The things about you that can be confidence and momentum building in times of doubt.

I’ve been doing clinical work for over twenty years. For eight of those years I was working in or around the Foster Care system. For the next nine, I was consulting for others doing similar work. I’ve been in private practice for the past three years. All of which, grounds me in the work of being a therapist.

I grew up in a very small town. The sense of community I grew up with is still a big part of who I am. I live now in the city of Olympia with my wife and two children. Much of my off time is spent coaching youth sports, and being a dad.

Insurances Accepted

• Aetna
• Cigna
• Cigna EAP
• Kaiser Permanente
• Kaiser Permanente Northwest
• Premera Blue Cross
• Regence
• United Healthcare
• United Healthcare EAP