Psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression, suicidal thoughts, trauma and PTSD, OCD, chronic pain, and ketamine therapy.
Practiced with care, collaboration, and... well, humanity.
Christian Smith, LMSW
Telehealth psychotherapy throughout Michigan~ BCBS accepted, Aetna, BCN, Priority Health in process
With ketamine treatment at Michigan Progressive Health and other clinics
Human being has always been a practice.
Human being.
Human doing.
Human suffering.
Human happiness.
Psychotherapy helps you practice.
Even if sometimes the practice is simply staying alive,
day by day,
until life feels worth living.
Areas of Focus
Treatment-Resistant Depression
Depression that has persisted despite previous treatments, perhaps a host of other psychotherapists, psychiatric medications, residential care or hospitalization, or major interventions like TMS, ECT.
Treatment resistant doesn't mean you have failed. It means you are still trying.
Suicidal Thoughts and Chronic Suicidality
Wanting to die is understandable when you are in intense suffering.
I have come to understand that the suicidal thoughts often come from a compassionate place within you: the part of you that wants the pain to stop and doesn't know any other way.
But you are here because a part of you knows it can stop:
Maybe you've felt better in the past.
Maybe it was just for a moment
Maybe you know others like you who have found relief.
You might not feel hopeful, but being here, reading these words is an act of hope. I'm here to help steward that small ember into a warmer, gentler life.
Or a fire in your belly.
Trauma and PTSD
Therapy for processing your traumatic memories, facing your triggers, heart-racing, eye-darting hypervigilance and anxiety, self-blaming shame, emotional disconnection, numbness and isolation.
OCD and Intrusive Thoughts
Evidence-based treatment for obsessive ruminations that keep you up at night, distract you from your life, compulsions that keep you repeating the same thing even though you desparately want to stop, disturbing intrusive thoughts, and terrifying uncertainty that no amount of checking, reassurance, or analysis seems to resolve.
Chronic Pain
Psychotherapy for the emotional and practical costs of living in persistent pain, and for building a more mindful, values-aligned life that's worth it.
Ketamine Therapy
Psychotherapy before, during, and after ketamine treatment, including preparation, therapeutic support during sessions at your home virtually or at collaborating clinics, and integration afterward.
I’m Christian Smith, a psychotherapist with experience in Community Mental Health and Ketamine Treatment settings. Much of my work has been with people whose symptoms are severe, persistent, complex or difficult to treat.
I am comfortable speaking directly about suicide, obsessions, trauma, despair, altered states, and experiences people fear will be “too much” for others.
My style is warm, candid, curious, science-y & philosophical... and I like to think I'm pretty funny.
