Corporate and Healthcare Services

Dr. Smith provides tailored services for both corporate and healthcare audiences.

Corporate Workshops and Seminars

For corporate clients (especially in engineering, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or STEM industries), Dr. Smith delivers engaging workshops on a range of workplace mental health topics. These presentations can be formatted as brief "lunch and learns" or expanded into half-day or full-day seminars. Topics include:

• Controlling the Controllables: A workshop focusing on stress management, cognitive flexibility, and distinguishing between what is within one’s control versus what is not. Content empowers employees to stay grounded and effective during uncertainty, pressure to perform, and high-demand work.

• Stress Management in the Workplace: An evidence-based seminar exploring how stress shows up, and how to manage it, across cognitive, emotional, physical, behavioral, and social domains. Includes tools for emotional agility, boundary-setting, coping, and more. A model of time management, aimed to reduce stress and improve personal and professional efficacy, is also presented.

• Women in Engineering: Enhancing Career Sustainability: Based on Dr. Smith's published research on women who’ve remained in the engineering field long term, this presentation offers a strengths-based look at what supports retention and career fulfillment. It introduces themes including how women navigate bias, manage stress, maintain work-life balance, find supportive environments, and other engaging topics. Ideal for managers, leaders, and organizations aiming to retain and support women engineers at all career stages.

• Perfectionism and Thinking Traps in the Workplace: A practical talk that unpacks perfectionism in high-achieving environments, which commonly masquerades as high standards and contributes to burnout, stress, and indecision. Participants learn to identify common thinking traps; challenge unrealistic expectations; understand the potential utility of perfectionism (and the tipping point into problematic thinking); and build more flexible and sustainable approaches to achievement and self-worth at work.

• Boundaries in the Workplace: This interactive talk helps participants define and assert professional boundaries. Topics include setting limits around time and availability (e.g., time-boxing and work-life balance), navigating social boundaries with colleagues, and holding firm during role or scope creep. Participants will leave with strategies to clarify their own limits and uphold them with confidence and professionalism. 

• Managing Depression, Anxiety, or Grief in the Workplace: This seminar helps employees and leaders better understand how common mental health challenges, such as depression, anxiety, and grief, can show up at work. Includes guidance on recognizing symptoms, understanding treatment options, adjusting expectations during acute distress, and creating a supportive work culture.

Healthcare & Clinical Training

Dr. Smith also offers clinical training for mental health and healthcare professionals, covering a range of disorders and treatments. Her healthcare-focused seminars are aimed at clinicians and staff in hospitals, clinics, and mental health organizations. Topics include:

• Eating Disorders: This training covers identification, screening, and treatment of eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and/or avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder). Dr. Smith covers up-to-date assessment methods and therapeutic interventions. Additionally, Dr. Smith offers seminars in treating patients with commonly comorbid conditions including body dysmorphic disorder and/or PTSD.

• Body Image: Dr. Smith offers trainings on identifying body image concerns, discerning between subclinical body image distress and body dysmorphic disorder, and effective treatment interventions/modalities to reduce symptoms and help patients feel good in their bodies. 

• Insomnia: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a brief, evidence-based therapy shown to significantly improve sleep quality without using medication. Dr. Smith offers a seminar focusing on screening, diagnosing, and treating insomnia using CBT-I interventions.

• Grief & Loss: Therapeutic interventions from a number of clinical modalities are provided for supporting patients through grief and loss. Common (and less common) symptoms are also presented. Case examples illustrate various interventions.

• Trauma & PTSD: Given that Dr. Smith frequently treats PTSD using Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in her practice with both military-affiliated and civilian populations, she offers a seminar highlighting the process for diagnosing and screening for PTSD as well as how to effectively treat it using CPT interventions. Additionally, Dr. Smith offers a separate seminar in treating patients with both eating disorders and PTSD, a frequent comorbidity.

• Beyond Manuals: Integrating Humanism and Evidence in Clinical Work: Based on her unique professional trajectory from engineer to psychologist, Dr. Smith offers a reflective talk on the evolution of her clinical perspective. Drawing from her own experience in both industry and mental health settings, including the VA, this presentation examines the limitations of rigid, manualized approaches to therapy and highlights the value of process-oriented, humanistic work. Through compelling case material and grounded insights, Dr. Smith explores how therapist flexibility, emotional attunement, and deeper client engagement can lead to profound and sustainable change, especially for populations not always well-served by short-term evidence-based protocols. Ideal for clinicians, supervisors, academia, training programs, or healthcare leaders navigating the intersection of science, systemic pressures, and human healing.

In addition to the topics above, Lightlist offers custom training or seminar solutions to corporate or healthcare audiences. To schedule a workshop or learn more, contact Dr. Christine Smith at drsmith@lightlistpsych.com. 

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