Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C is a licensed clinical social worker currently serving as a Military Mental Health Child Social Worker with the Consortium for Defense Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences located in Bethesda, MD. In this role, Ms. Heflin works on the Military Child and Family Collaboration study and is responsible for identifying best practices for expanding and disseminating telehealth services to military children with mental health, emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs. Ms. Heflin also develops curriculum and facilitates evidenced based training on suicide prevention and intervention (CBT-SP, PST-SP), DBT skills for youth and MATCH-ADTC.

Prior to joining CDP, Ms. Heflin's clinical work included providing individual and group therapy, care coordination and outreach services to children, adolescents, and adults. 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. She is tri-licensed as an independent clinical social worker in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.