Lisa Pineda, LCSW

Lisa Pineda, LCSW-R, currently serves as the mental health consultant for Terra Firma National. Lisa began working with Terra Firma flagship in 2013, and in 2020 became the program's mental health director. Lisa is an author of the Terra Firma support group intervention manual. Lisa specializes in child and adolescent mental health and is trained in several evidence-based therapeutic interventions (AF-CBT, CPP, EMDR, PSB-CBT-S, TF-CBT, TGCT-A, SPARCS). With over 15 years of experience contributing to the research and refining of therapeutic interventions with Latino immigrant population, Lisa's recent scholarly publications include "Working with parents and children separated at the border: Examining the impact of the Zero Tolerance policy and beyond," Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (2019), and "Mental health as the cornerstone of effective medical-legal partnerships for asylum-seekers: The Terra Firma model," Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2022). Lisa has also collaborated with Southern Poverty Law Center's litigation for asylum-seeking families separated at the border during the Zero Tolerance Policy. Lisa holds an MSW degree from Adelphi University and in her current role is a director of a child and adolescent mental health program at a CBO in Harlem, New York.