Samantha Smith, PsyD

Dr. Samantha Smith (Psy.D., IMH-E®) is a clinical psychologist specializing in infant and early childhood mental health. She works with young children and their families when emotions and behaviors become difficult to understand or manage, particularly when these challenges affect relationships and functioning across home, school, and social settings. Her clinical focus includes trauma, anxiety, ADHD, and behavioral concerns in children from infancy through early elementary years.

Samantha provides comprehensive, developmentally sensitive, trauma-informed differential diagnosis assessments for concerns related to Autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental and emotional conditions. These evidence-based evaluations offer families clarity, direction, and actionable recommendations, conducted with warmth and respect for each child's strengths, identity, and developmental profile. Her assessment experience spans the ADOS, cognitive and developmental measures (WPPSI, SB, WISC, WJ, Leiter), the Beery VMI, NEPSY, projective measures, and standardized questionnaires, including the BASC, Conners, BRIEF, ABAS, Spence, ASRS, and TSCYC.

She brings over a decade of specialized training in attachment-informed, culturally responsive, evidence-based treatments for young children. She is certified in TF-CBT, Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), and Attachment, Regulation, and Competence (ARC), and is an endorsed Infant Mental Health Specialist and Reflective Supervisor through the National Alliance of Infant Mental Health - one of the few clinicians in New York and New Jersey with certification in these specific attachment-based interventions.

Samantha earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Marywood University and her bachelor's in Psychology from Rutgers University. She completed her doctoral internship and postdoctoral residency at The Children's Center Utah, specializing in therapeutic and assessment services for young children, and previously served as Psychology Training Director for a nationally accredited internship program and President of the Utah Association for Infant Mental Health.

Outside of clinical work, Samantha enjoys watching her child grow, taking her dogs for runs, and hiking with her family.