
Jeremy L. Smith
Psychotherapist & neuroscientist
After a successful twenty-year career as an academic researcher in neuroscience, STEM educator, and scientific consultant, my personal experiences have motivated me to transition to a career in psychotherapy. I will be practicing in the Bellingham, Washington area in Spring 2025. I'm also continuing my collaborations in clinical and cognitive neuroscience as a scientist-practitioner.
As this site is intended for colleagues, researchers, and other professionals in clinical and research fields, it offers some background information about me, a professional weblog, and my curriculum vitae. You're also welcome to visit my client/patient-facing site here.
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The image to the left represents my personal, holistic approach to therapy, which includes hope and motivation (fire, the sun), the mind-body connection (earth, the fern), cognition and rationality (wind), emotion and personal symbology (water), and personal spirituality (spirit, the oval encompassing the rest).
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Areas of Expertise
Clinical neuroscience and medical family therapy/integrated behavioral health
Jeremy L. Smith, Clinical Neuroscientist and Student in Medical Family Therapy.
As a psychotherapist, I specialize in working with patients and families who are coping with:
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Complex presentations, such as comorbid schizoaffective disorder and autism
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Chronic and terminal illnesses, grief, and pre-bereavement
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Familial and caregiver issues, especially in the areas of late-life care and the dementias
I take an integrative approach to psychotherapy based on evidence-based research and client needs and preferences. Because I believe that clients and their families have the strength and resources to overcome most problems in life if they have the guidance and support they need, an existential and humanistic perspective is foundational to my approach. However, I am careful to consider the whole person, and will often incorporate techniques from cognitive-behavioral family therapy (CBFT), somatic therapy and mindfulness, and internal family systems (IFS) to support and nurture my client's rational, physical, and deep emotional needs, respectively. Being a systemic-relational therapist, I believe that many issues are best resolved at the level of couples and families, but am happy to see individuals (children, adolescents, and adults) as well.
I also offer contracted data analytics consulting in human and animal neuroscience (neural data science), including:
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Functional MRI processing and analysis using connectivity and graph-theoretic techniques
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Voxel- and surface-based morphometry and volumetrics processing and analysis
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Single- and surface-electrode signal processing and analysis
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MR spectroscopy processing and analysis
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Psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analysis
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Please see my CV and Areas of Expertise for more information.

Would you like to set up a meeting?
I use Calendly for scheduling. You can book a meeting with me on my Calendly booking page.