Bio

Jamie Smidt (she/her) is a Certified Peer Specialist (since 2018), mindfulness & meditation teacher, and owner of Fusion Collaborative LLC. Her ongoing journey includes lived experiences with bipolar disorder, psychosis, anxiety, and trauma, and past challenges with substance and alcohol use, as well as being a family member and friend to many others living with mental health and substance/alcohol use difficulties. Embracing Western therapies, as well as cultivating an openness to experiences outside of the traditional mental health canon, have been critical in her recovery. Jamie draws from her own past and continuing experiences to motivate and support others to build their own toolboxes with diverse skills and tools for their well-being. She encourages each person to identify and explore their own unique interests and strengths, as well as enjoys introducing interested folks to new ideas, including modalities that engage us in self-healing and reconnecting with our own inner wisdom and agency. Increasing independence, ease, awareness, and self-confidence, finding or reconnecting with purpose, and rebuilding meaningful relationships (or building new ones) are central goals of Jamie’s recovery and wellness work.

Jamie has previously served in peer support leadership and direct practice in Milwaukee County and Washington County, WI. As the owner of Fusion Collaborative LLC, she now offers peer support and wellness services in Sheboygan County, throughout Wisconsin, and beyond. Jamie contributes as a volunteer with a nonprofit mindfulness center, and has been a volunteer group facilitator with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), and with an international Bipolar Disorder support group. She also enjoys consulting and partnering with other professionals, organizations, and government entities and is currently privileged to participate with the Sheboygan County Trauma Informed Care Committee, Responsible Substance Use Coalition of Healthy Sheboygan County, and as a CIT (Crisis Intervention Training) presenter in Washington County. Jamie is passionate about engaging all people through compassion and kindness, and loves the lake, hiking, road trips, coffee, board games, learning, rescuing animals, practicing mindfulness and meditation, occasionally dancing badly, playing pickleball, humor, and great conversations.

“We are all worthy and capable of living well, however we each define that.”