Cristina Smugala, MA, LPC, SEP

Education, Professional Trainings, and Affiliations

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • EMDRIA Approved Consultant
  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
  • Certified Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Clinician
  • MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
  • Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: Psychedelic Research and Training Institute
  • Advanced Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy Certification Program: ATMA
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: POLARIS Insight Center
  • Internal Family Systems Therapy Trained Clinician
  • Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Group Facilitator: POLARIS Insight Center
  • Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model Trained Clinician
  • Trauma Informed Care Trained Trainer and Clinician
  • The Neurophysiology of Addiction and Brain Based Relapse Prevention
  • Culturally Informed Substance Abuse Counseling
  • EMDR Treatment of Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors
  • Summit for Clinical Excellence: Insight and Innovations in Eating Disorder Treatment
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Trainings
  • Clinical Core Competency for Trauma, Grief, and Loss Trained Clinician
  • American Counseling Association
  • International Association of Trauma Professionals
  • Emotion Focused Couples Counseling
  • EMDR and Somatic Experiencing an Integrative Approach
  • Healing Attachment Wounds with EMDR Therapy
  • Family Education Facilitator McCallum Place Eating Disorders Treatment Center
  • Therapy St. Louis

I cultivated my professional clinical experience providing services at the following exceptional treatment facilities in the St. Louis Therapy Community:

McCallum Place
Queen of Peace Center
Center for Life Solutions
Washington University School of Medicine