She is the current Journal Editor of the Wisconsin Counseling Journal and board member of the Wisconsin Counseling Association. Dr. Kraemer Smothers presents on counseling ethics, attachment, trauma, supervision and gender dynamics within the counseling relationship. As a licensed psychologist, she supervises LPC’s in training and maintains a limited private practice in which she sees individuals and couples for counseling. She presents on a regular basis at local, state and national conferences. She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her master’s degree in Community Counseling from Boston College. She completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Wisconsin Counseling and Consultation Services and a postgraduate fellowship at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA.