The SMART CEUs Difference
Our team consists of many parts pushing forward together to improve the online CE experience for Recreational Therapists everywhere.
The majority of our team consists of Recreational Therapy Experts who we call our SMART Instructors. They are Recreational Therapists who have both a passion to teach a broad TR audience and have extensive experience in various areas of TR.
We also have a top notch social media expert, an awesome RT Newsletter writer, some amazing tech dudes, and our founder Nathan Lamaster, who steers the ship.
Our mission is simple…
“To provide quality online NCTRC approved CE for Recreational therapists, which is both afforadble to take and convienient to use.”
We accomplish quality, affordability, and convenience through employing Recreational Therapist experts to teach our courses and through our use of our powerful Learning Management System (LMS) which:
- Manages your learning progress so you can start/stop/resume courses at your convenience from your computer
- Keeps track of all your CE that you complete on our site for your personal records
- Allows you to get instant access to your completion certificates for no additional costs!
We accomplish affordability through the volume of Recreational Therapists using our services for CE which helps us pay our team and having an all inclusive pricing structure which means there are no additional books that you are required to purchase in order to take/pass courses, or additional fees to get your certificates of completion.
This is what we call the SMART Difference!
Our Team
The SMART team consists of SMART instructors, admin staff, and a leadership team working hard to serve you

Nathan Lamaster
CTRS
Owner Founder

Amy Guthrie
Administration Assistant

Lacey Burgess
MS, CTRS/LRT
SMART Instructor

Beth Petzold
CTRS
SMART Instructor

Tyler Neimeyer
MS, CTRS
SMART Instructor

Nicole Lamaster
Wife/Social Media Expert

Jennifer Piatt
PhD, CRTS
SMART Instructor

Jo Anne Kikel
MA, CTRS, NASM-CPT
SMART Instructor

Ava Skabanek
MS, CTRS
SMART Instructor

Katherine Darcanglis
MA, AP-BC
SMART Instructor

Tina Watson
CTRS
SMART Newsletter Creator/Course Reviewer/Email Marketer

Jennifer Hiel
M.ed, CTRS
SMART Instructor

Allison Kruk
MA, BA, CTRS
SMART Instructor

Carolyn Breinich
MA, CTRS/CCLS
SMART Instructor

Emily Gaulke
CTRS
SMART instructor

Valerie Lazzara Mould
MA, CTRS
SMART CE Retreat Coordinator/SMART Instructor

Kathryn Walker
CTRS
SMART Instructor

Kim Shepard
CTRS, MPH
SMART Instructor

Dianna Proemm
CTRS
SMART Instructor

Katherine Darcanglis
MA, AP-BC
SMART Instructor

Peter Haynes
Web Designer

Eryn Friedman Sinclair
MA, CTRS
SMART instructor

Tracie Schendel
CTRS
SMART instructor

Angela Goldschmidt
CTRS
SMART instructor