Dr. Acosta Smith is a clinical faculty member at Bastyr Center for Natural Health, where she supervises team care in the Naturopathic Medicine Department and offers her services in Practitioner Care.

Dr. Acosta Smith's two-year residency at Bastyr Center included helping to develop an integrated clinic in the family practice department of Swedish Medical Center's Cherry Hill Campus, as well as facilitating education of the Swedish residents about Naturopathic Medicine. Her residency also included work at Virginia Mason Pain/Spine Clincs, HealthPoint Community Health Centers, multiple Bastyr off-site clincs and precepting at Odessa Brown Pediatric Clinic and SeaMar Community Health Center Gynecology. Additionally, she spent a year as a student counselor in the Bastyr University Counseling Center.

Dr. Acosta Smith’s clinical interests include Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Autoimmune Disease, Diabetes, Migraine Headaches and Pediatrics; and she has additional training in CranioSacral Therapy. Her personal healing philosophy involves taking time to teach her patients about their health, treatment options and ways to make necessary life changes. She describes her approach as gentle, meeting each patient where they are on their journey toward wellness and treating each patient as an individual.

Dr. Acosta Smith received her ND from Bastyr University and her BA in Kinesiology and Applied Physiology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a member of the AANP.