Felicia Gibson, PhD
Felicia Gibson is a licensed psychologist in Durham, North Carolina. She works at the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH), a community non-profit and National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Category III site. Dr. Gibson is co-director of the Trauma-Informed Leadership Team (TILT) initiative, a partnership between CCFH and Durham Public Schools designed to tilt schools practices to be more trauma informed. The TILT initiative provides trauma specific training as well as on-going consultation and support to administrators and support staff as well as small groups of staff at individual schools across the district. With over 15 years of experience working in schools in Tennessee, Florida, and North Carolina, Dr. Gibson has a solid understanding of the education system and the importance of trauma-informed services for students and school staff. In addition to her work in schools, Dr. Gibson conducts comprehensive trauma-informed mental health assessments and treatment for children who have been adopted and provides evidenced-based treatments to help address oppositional behavior, symptoms of traumatic stress, and attachment related concerns.
Theresa Palmer LCSW, LMFT, AS-AAMFT
Theresa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, and an Approved Supervisor by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Her current work involves teaching and field coordinating for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work in the Winston-Salem Program. She also provides clinical supervision to associate-licensed clinicians, consultation to fully licensed therapists, and supervision-of-supervision to individuals seeking to become AAMFT-Approved Supervisors. In teaching as well as providing therapy and supervision, Theresa uses a systems-oriented, strengths-based perspective.
Michael Daniels, MSW, LCAS, CCS, LCSW-A
Michael serves as coordinator of the Addiction Certificate Program in the School of Social Work at East Carolina University preparing students to become Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialists. He serves as clinical supervisor for the ECU clinical supervision program supervising clinicians seeking professional license and graduate student interns. He earned his BS degree in Education from North Carolina State University and his MSW degree from East Carolina University. He has over 20 years clinical experience working inside prisons providing addiction and behavioral health services for offenders. He also worked as a clinical consultant in coordinating community reentry transitional services for a 300 bed inpatient treatment facility for offenders.
Nkrumah D. Lewis, Ph.D, LCSWA
Dr. Lewis is currently a provisionally licensed social worker. He served as an educator in the UNC system for over eight (8) years, seven (7) years in the mental health arena, completed requisite units in hospital chaplaincy at Alamance Regional Medical Center. He was selected by UNC General Administrator to serve as a Program Evaluator of Minority Male Mentor Programs across the state and in conjunction with the North Carolina Community College System. He is/has been an entrepreneur in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors where has become well-versed in fundraising, budget monitoring and expenditures. He spearheads, coordinates and supports philanthropic endeavors for the causes of battered women and children, gang intervention, wrongful incarceration, homelessness and prisoner re-entry.
Josalin J. Hunter, PhD, LCSW, MSW MPH
Dr. Josalin Hunter is passionate about equity in health & mental health; resilience, health education for community, diversity & inclusion, and social justice- and particularly, where these areas intersect. She is always in service of and advocating for youth and the improvement of health and mental health in black & IPOC communities. She is currently the Director of DEI at Coastal Horizons (the largest mental/behavioral health and substance use recovery non-profit in southeastern NC). She also teaches as tenured part-time faculty at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is a practicing licensed clinical therapist. Josalin has over 30 published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, a chapter on a clinician’s perspective on the way trauma shows up in higher education classrooms and has presented many times over the years both nationally and internationally. Josalin holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana, dual master’s degrees in social work and public health from University of Missouri Saint Louis and Emory University, respectively, and a doctorate in Health Promotion and Behavior from University of Georgia’s School of Public Health.
Sarah Reives-Houston, Ph.D., PsyD (ABD)
Sarah Reives-Houston, is the Director of Behavioral Health Springboard at the UNC School of Social Work. She has a Ph.D. in education psychology from Capella University and is completing her PsyD in clinical psychology and trauma from California Southern University. Dr. Reives-Houston is certified as a family trauma specialist and as a child and adolescent trauma specialist and engages in research and conducts training on recognizing, managing, and mitigating the impacts of trauma on client populations and service providers. Prior to coming to UNC, she was on the faculty at NC Central University, where she taught courses and oversaw research projects and evaluation programs. She has also developed training and curriculum materials on mental health, substance abuse, systems of care for individuals and families.