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Khristine Heflin,, MSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, LICSW


Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, LICSW

Ms. Heflin is a licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been practicing since 2006.  Currently, she serves as a Military Child Social Worker with the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences located in Bethesda, MD.  In this role, Ms. Heflin works on the Department of Defense Child Collaboration Study and is responsible for identifying best practices for expanding telehealth services to military children and delivering evidenced based training to behavioral health clinicians and community providers caring for military children and families.  

Prior to joining CDP, Ms. Heflin has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults providing individual and group therapy, care management and outreach services. Clinical work settings include psychiatric emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, forensic and school settings.  Her educational background includes a Master’s degree in Social Work with a clinical concentration in mental health, families and children from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.  Ms. Heflin also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.  She is tri-licensed as an Independent Clinical Social Worker in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.