Full Living: A Psychotherapy Practice

Offices through-out Philadelphia and Greater Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Full Living: A Psychotherapy Practice, guided by founder/director Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW, specializes in making meaningful matches between clients and therapists in Phiadelphia and the Greater Philadelphia area. Full Living works exclusively with seasoned, talented clincians. Full Living matches clients with therapists based on the clients' stated needs, as well as personality and style. As a team, Full Living offers psychotherapists who have a wide range of training, education, specialties, and approaches so we can find the right therapist for you.

Full Living prioritizesquality clincians, racial and ethnic cultural competence and support gender and sexuality diversity, and provide a safe environment for transgender, non-binary, kink, and polyamorous clients. LGBTQI sensitivities and cultural competencies can’t be taught. They’re built on an open mind and compassion for all people, a quality that defines every clinician at Full Living.

Full Living offers individual, couples, and family therapies for adults and teens. The clinicians have offices at dozens of locations throughout Philadelphia and the Greater Philadelphia area. The customize each client’s care, including helping them connect to other needed services such as psychiatry, psychological testing, and nutritional counseling.

There are a multitude of issues that bring people into psychotherapy. Sometimes it’s a mood or diagnostic issue, like depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, or eating disorders, but it can just as frequently be issues like low self-esteem, an existential crisis, or a life circumstance you need help thinking through.

Below are examples of the types of issues you might bring to therapy which our therapists offer as specialties:

Challenges and opportunities of young adulthood
Cultural, religious, racial, economic, and ethnicity-based themes
Early intervention for the new family
Mood and behavior management
Parenting issues and education
Sexual and gender diversity
Emotional growth
Life transitions
Trauma, addictions, and recovering

Each prospective client receives a free initial consultation with Full Living’s director/founder, who leverages her decades in this field and intimate knowledge of each Full Living clinician to personally select a well-matched therapist. To schedule a free intake appointment, please email us, call the office.

Full Living: A Psychotherapy Practice has offices throughout Philadelphia and The Greater Philadelphia Area including multiple offices in Center City 19109, Chestnut Hill 19118, Northern Liberties 19123, Old City 19106, Rittenhouse Square 19146, Roxborough 19106, South Philly 19107, University City 19104, West Philly 19143, and surrounding neighborhoods including Glenside 19038, Haverford 19041, and Narberth 19072.

Full Living: Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

Offices in Philadelphia and Glenside

Psychedelics have a long history of being used to facilitate emotional, spiritual and relational transformations. The psychotherapy world began its documented efforts to explore ways psychedelics might be used in clinical settings to help folx do important psychological work atarting in the 60's. While a lot of that work got shut down by federal laws and regulations, some of the research continued, both underground and with the Federal Drug Administration. Now the FDA and top research facilities across the country have been engaged in clinical trials to see how the power of various psychedelics might be harnessed to leverage against classic mental health diagnosis, including Depression, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Drug and Alcohol Addictions.

Psychedelics provide a novel tool for accessing unconscious material while in a conscious, lucid state, allowing us to connect with our own inner healing wisdom. We can find answers from our core, have opportunities to see ourselves, our relationships and our lives from totally different perspectives, and derail our default mode processing.

With the help and support of a psychotherapist specifically trained in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, you will set plans and intentions for your medicine sessions, get guidance and containment from a therapist sitting right at your side, and learn tools for integrating what you learned in your session.

Each prospective client receives a free initial consultation with Full Living’s director/founder to help determine if you are a good candidate for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, to walk you through the process of obtaining a prescription, and to help access the best modality for your work. To schedule a free intake appointment, please email us, call the office.

Full Living: Psychedelic Psychotherapy Retreats offers retreats for individuals, couples and small groups in Glenside and Center City Philadelphia.