Allison Smith, Ph.D.

Allison Smith, Ph.D., is an experienced therapist who currently serves as a post-doctoral fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Sean Ransom. Dr. Smith’s work focuses on anxiety and overcontrol, trauma, women’s issues, and personality disorders, as well as chronic medical illness such as hemophilia. She also developed a particular specialty working LGBT+ clients in therapy. 

Dr. Smith received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 2023. During graduate school, she trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and engaged in research that focused on gender, sexuality, and intimate partner violence. Her academic contributions have included peer-reviewed publications on victimization and resilience. She has presented her work at regional, national, and international conferences.

Dr. Smith conducted her pre-doctoral internship at James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, FL, where she specialized personality disorders and complex psychiatric illness. In addition to her work at CBT Hawaii, where she sees patients remotely, she is affiliated with the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of New Orleans and the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of Puget Sound.