Kimberly Blackshear is the director of the Time Away Office housed in the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs at Duke University. In this role she works with all undergraduate students taking time away from theuniversity, supports them while on leave and helps them transition back to the university when they are ready. She is the former Assistant Director of Programs at the Center for Child and Family Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy. In this role, Kimberly worked on a number of grants focused on the dissemination of Family Connects, an evidence-based universal nurse home visiting program for mothers and infants and a NIH grant focused on early diagnostics and intervention for children diagnosed with autism for children. Prior to that role, Kimberly served as a Network Liaison and Affiliate Program Coordinator for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. She helped develop the first organizational assessment for secondary traumatic stress and NCTSN Youth Task Force, a national youth advisory board focused on child traumatic stress. Kimberly served as the Clinical Advisor and Quality Improvement Coordinator for a day treatment facility, serving children long term suspended or expelled from the public school system. She has been a probation officer, child protective specialist and director of a community mental health agency. For the last twelve years, Kimberly has served as a court appointment Guardian ad Litem in the state of North Carolina representing the best interests of children in the child welfare system. In addition to her work in child-serving systems, Kimberly is the Executive Director of a forensic psychology practice in Durham, North Carolina where she also serves as a mitigation specialist on capital murder cases across the state. Kimberly obtained her Masters of Social Work degree from Fordham University in 2020 specializing in clinical social work and earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Urbana University in 2004 majoring in psychology, sociology and criminal justice. Kimberly holds a LCSWA license through the state of North Carolina Social Work Certification and License Board. In her private practice she provides individual, couples and family therapy and provides consultation on secondary traumatic stress to organizations throughout the country.

"Dr. Lindsey" is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor currently in private practice in Wheeling, WV. Prior to this, she was introduced to the NCTSN while employed at the Category III funded site Mountain Comprehensive Care Center in Prestonsburg, KY. While there, she received several evidence-based trainings specific to the treatment of trauma in children. Most of her clinical caseload is complex trauma in both children and adults. Dr. Lindsey is licensed in multiple states in the Ohio Valley/Appalachian region, is certified in EMDR therapy through EMDRIA, provides clinical supervision, and is a counselor educator. She has served on the Affiliate Advisory Committee since January 2019.

Provide individual and group counseling in college counseling clinic.  Provide trauma training and consultation as well as individual supervision.   

Currently administering psychotherapy and client-centered child traumatic stress treatment to public and private elementary school students. Working in a private psychotherapy practice in Westchester County, New York; this clinician receives referrals from schools, Child Protective Services, and Family Court from the municipality. Thirty-three percent of the patients in the practice are children and adolescents. The modality of treatment for this segment of clients are screened and assessed for levels of child traumatic stress. Those testing positive receive an  intervention called Tell Me A Story (TEMAS), where they are encouraged to reconstruct certain aspects of their trauma, in story/narrative form, after viewing drawings of family traumatic scenes. I conduct individual, group and family therapy sessions with the children.