Krista Smith-Hanke, MSS, LSW

Krista Smith-Hanke, MSS, LSW is a Social Worker at the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders. She works as a clinical interventionist on the STABLE research team and conducts psychological evaluations of patients seeking bariatric surgery through the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She received her BA in Biology with minors in Psychology and Education from Swarthmore College, and her Masters of Social Service with a clinical concentration from the Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social Research. 

She completed her clinical internship at the University of the Arts where she worked as a college counselor and received training in expressive arts and emotionally focused therapies. Her clinical practice is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment theories, and she incorporates elements of body focused mindfulness, CBT, and DBT into her work. Krista has experience working with children, adolescents and adults around a wide variety of topics, including trauma, body image, relationship challenges, identity development, anxiety, depression and family trauma. Her clinical interests include the manifestation of trauma in the body, the impact of relationships and systems on individual's identity and mental health, and the relationship between individual/collective pasts and our present experiences. 

Krista Smith-Hanke can be contacted at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St., Suite 3032, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309, 215-573-2517. Her e-mail address is krista.smith-hanke@pennmedicine.upenn.edu