Anita Gadhia-Smith

When someone finally decides to pick up the phone, Anita Gadhia-Smith understands exactly what it took to get there. A Washington, D.C. psychotherapist with three decades of continuous personal recovery, she brings something to the room that credentials alone cannot confer: the lived knowledge of what it means to rebuild from the ground up. That history, alongside her clinical training, is the foundation of how she works.

Gadhia-Smith helps adults, adolescents, and couples navigate addiction, relationship difficulties, trauma, mood disorders, and the professional pressures that quietly erode a person’s sense of self. She has consulted on federal substance abuse legislation and spoken nationally as an expert on psychological health, and she is also the author of several books on recovery and personal growth. Her practice draws on individual, couple, and family modalities, with online sessions available.

Her stated aim is direct: to meet each person where they are, help them move toward their goals, and support lasting, meaningful change. She describes the therapeutic process as one of finding an authentic self — not a fixed destination, but something recovered through honest, committed work.