Lauren Smith

Lauren D. Smith, MPS, LCAT, LPAT, ATR-BC, ATCS is a psychotherapist, artist, educator and author with over twenty years of experience. Smith has provided clinical services and consultation for a broad range of populations and settings including medical/surgical, inpatient and outpatient, outpatient psychiatric, community-based programs, education and residential rehabilitation. She has worked at Mount Sinai Hospital, serving as a Senior Psychotherapist and Child Life Specialist with the renowned Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and the Lillian and Benjamin Hertzberg Institute for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York. She also practiced as Senior Art Psychotherapist/ Child Life Specialist and KidZone TV Producer (KZTV) in the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai in New York where she developed therapeutic television programming for children and families in the hospital. Smith currently owns and operates a private psychotherapy practice and is licensed in New York and New Mexico. She teaches in the graduate Creative Arts Therapy department at Pratt Institute, where she has held a number of leadership positions including Internship Coordinator, Thesis Coordinator and Art Therapy Accreditation Coordinator. Smith’s curriculum focus includes Advanced Practice in Art Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Clinical Assessment and Treatment Planning, Ethics and Thesis/Research. She has also taught Ethics for Art Therapy and Counseling, Theories of Art Therapy, Clinical Practicum, and Advanced Seminars in Professional Practice. Smith’s work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. Smith has also published and presented within the fields of psychotherapy, art therapy, traumatology, pediatrics and palliative medicine. Smith is a Co-Founder of the Taos Abstract Artist Collective.

Smith’s art practice analyzes and deconstructs consciousness, collective experience and existential presence using an arts-based research practice that centers video and sound composition, large-scale sculpture and alt-narrative development. Smith’s current research project, V.I.S.T.A.: Transmutationist Field Journal references themes of natural selection, naturalism, evolution, colonialism, Darwinism and altered human consciousness through the socially-activated collective; a creative, anti-racist and non-binary approach to the Origin of Species narrative.

MPS, Creative Arts Therapy and Creativity Development, Pratt Institute

BA, English Literature, Skidmore College

On becoming whole: Paul’s journey through heart transplant. Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth: A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents. New York: Routledge. Smith, L. & Yazdian Rubin, S. (Dec. 2019). In Berberian, M. & Davis, B. (Eds).

Can you help me say goodbye? Sibling loss and bereavement in the healthcare environment. Complicated grief, attachment & art therapy: theory, treatment and 14 ready-to-use protocols. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Smith, L. & Yazdian Rubin, S. (2017). In MacWilliam, B. (Ed).

Vicarious Trauma: Supporting Bereavement and Self-Care Practice through Art Therapy for Healthcare Providers. Complicated grief, attachment & art therapy: theory, treatment and 14 ready-to-use protocols. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Smith, L. & Yazdian Rubin, S. (2017). In MacWilliam, B. (Ed).

Concepts in Treatment. Complicated grief, attachment & art therapy: theory, treatment and 14 ready-to-use protocols. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Macwilliam, B., Klingensmith, D., Smith, L., Meade, M., Day, J., Mukherjee, R., Gibbons, K. (2017). In MacWilliam, B. (Ed).

Taos Abstract Artist Collective 

Integrative Arts Psychotherapy

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