Jamie Smiertelny

Warmth, curiosity, and a deep respect for where each person actually is — these are the foundations of Jamie Smiertelny’s work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Loveland, Colorado. Rather than fitting clients into a fixed framework, she adapts her approach to meet them at their starting point and builds from there, drawing on a strengths-based perspective that emphasizes what people already carry into the room. She works with children, teenagers, adults, and older adults navigating anxiety, depression, mood disorders, personality disorders, trauma, burnout, and the particular pressures of career transitions and family conflict.

Jamie holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Social Work from the University of Wyoming, with a minor in Family and Consumer Science emphasizing Child Development. Her background includes mental health collaboration at Albany Community Health Clinic and work with families facing homelessness through Family Promise. That range of experience informs her ability to connect genuinely across ages and circumstances. She also recognizes that chronic overstimulation — the habit of reaching for a device the moment stillness arrives — can keep the nervous system in a state that makes healing harder, and she brings that awareness into her work with clients on stress, anxiety, and self-care.

Online sessions are available. Outside the office, Jamie hikes, paints, crochets, and travels — most recently through fourteen European cities in 35 days alongside strangers who became companions.