Shaina Smith, Ph.D.

Dr. Smith is a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in clinical psychology from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, and a Masters of Christian Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has worked in numerous settings, including the VA, university counseling centers, community mental health, and private practice. Currently, Dr. Smith has owned and operated Smith Psychological Services in Cheyenne, Wyoming, serving clients in Wyoming, Colorado, Alaska, Montana, and Nebraska.

Dr. Smith specializes in police and public safety psychology. She conducts pre-employment evaluations, and fitness evaluations, as well as crisis management, consultation for agencies as well as therapists, annual wellness checks, peer support trainings, therapy, and agency wellness trainings. She finds purpose in bringing professionalism and efficiency to evaluations and providing a space comfortable for first responders. Dr. Smith has an expertise in trauma treatment, and is trained in Brainspotting, Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). She utilizes neuroscience to inform treatment, and incorporates psychoeducation, as well as a psychodynamic Object-Relations framework and interpersonal process theory to help her clients create change in their daily experience.

In addition to her work with first responders and veterans, Dr. Smith has extensive experience working with individuals who have physical, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities, and strives to create an office environment conducive to all needs. Dr. Smith also completes other psychodiagnostic evaluations including ADHD evaluations, Autism evaluations, diagnostic evaluations, evaluations for the department of vocational rehabilitation, ABI and DD waiver evaluations, and social security psychological evaluations, and strives to make everyone feel at home in a safe and peaceful environment.