Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C

Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been practicing since 2006. She has worked with children, adolescents and adults with specialty areas that include managing anxiety and depression, parenting education and suicidal ideation prevention. She is committed to mental health equity and reducing the impact of unaddressed mental health needs. Currently, she serves as a Military Behavioral Health 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. 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 and Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.