A bit about Catherine Smithmyer, Director of Chesapeake Bay Psychological Services:

A longtime resident of Queen Anne's County, Dr. Smithmyer is a licensed psychologist who has been providing outpatient psychological services on Maryland's Eastern Shore for more than eight years. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Psychologists in Independent Practice, and the Maryland Psychological Association. Before opening Chesapeake Bay Psychological Services, Dr. Smithmyer:

• trained in the Philadelphia Child Guidance model of family therapy
• earned her Ph.D. from the APA-accredited clinical psychology program at the University of Delaware
• completed the Devereux Foundation's APA-accredited internship in child/adolescent psychology
• taught undergraduate Psychology at the University of Delaware and Anne Arundel Community College
• collaborated in the development of Kennedy Krieger Institute's ADHD Clinic
• provided therapy and evaluation services at Chester River Behavioral Health in Chestertown
• taught graduate Neuropsychology at Washington College

When Dr. Smithmyer is not in the office, she enjoys gathering with the Smithmyer clan, hiking mountains and canyons with her husband and children, biking and skating on Kent Island's trails, and attempting to write fiction.