Amber Hunter-Crawford, LCSW-S
Amber is a licensed clinical social worker and board-approved supervisor with a heart-centered, relational approach to therapy. Grounded in the neurosciences of connection, she believes that at our core, we all need to be seen, heard, and understood. She helps clients slow down, cultivate compassionate awareness of their experiences, and build more fulfilling relationships—with themselves and others.
Amber’s clinical experience spans diverse settings, including managing a federally funded interpersonal violence prevention program for migrant farmworkers, counseling immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, supporting survivors as a bilingual therapist at a domestic violence and sexual assault resource center, and providing therapy in private practice.
She specializes in guiding managers and leaders to foster cultures of care in the workplace, supporting working parents, strengthening resilience, and using embodied approaches to heal from interpersonal violence and intergenerational trauma. Her advanced training includes interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, somatic therapies, and EMDR.
As the Manager of the Employee Assistance Program, Amber is dedicated to fostering a culture of care and well-being across the university. She serves as the liaison to Faculty Council, provides leadership as a Senior Trainer for Longhorn Listens: Suicide Prevention program, and hosts the Strengthening Relationships Presentation series.
Jamie Justus, LCSW-S
Jamie has been a Social Worker for over 15 years. She has worked in agency settings such as a nursing home, court-appointed special advocates, rape crisis centers, a university counseling center, and private practice.
Jamie specializes in working with survivors of trauma and those who want to better manage their anxiety. She is a Hatha yoga teacher and is passionate about making yoga practices accessible to all bodies and minds.
In therapy sessions, Jamie enjoys delving into psychoeducation and helping clients to shift old stories that no longer serve them. She is honored to be a therapist, getting to be curious with people one session at a time.
Jeff Stellmach, LCSW
Jeff has worked as a licensed clinical social worker in Texas since 1993. He has been a social worker in psychiatric hospitals, a case manager with political refugees, a counselor at outpatient mental health clinics, primary care clinics and nursing homes, and a counselor and treatment supervisor for adolescents in residential treatment. Jeff specializes in eldercare issues by assisting individuals making care decisions and finding community resources for loved ones. He provides training on stress management, responding to crisis situations, and appropriate language and conflict management at work.
Danica Morgan, LCSW
Danica (duh-NEEK-ah) brings deep experience supporting people across diverse settings, including active-duty military and veterans, individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, young adults aging out of foster care, K–12 students and families, and first-generation college students. She has also worked with people navigating visible and invisible disabilities, mental health and substance use challenges, inpatient psychiatric care, and complex geriatric needs.
Before joining the Employee Assistance Program, Danica served as a case manager with the university’s Victims Advocate Network (VAN), providing crisis intervention and support to community members affected by distressing events.
Her counseling approach draws from attachment theory, motivational interviewing, interpersonal neurobiology, and strengths-based, solution-focused practices. She creates a compassionate, grounding space for self-exploration, emotional resilience, and meaningful growth. Danica is especially interested in trauma-informed care, holistic and somatic approaches to healing, and culturally responsive practice. She is currently pursuing training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.
Danica offers presentations on topics such as emotional intelligence, feedback skills, cultivating a growth mindset, micro-resilience strategies, and aligning core values for well-being.
Laura Sandoval-Sweeney, LCSW-S
Laura is a licensed clinical social worker and board-approved supervisor. She has about a decade of experience working in higher education in a variety of roles including clinical mental health as well as behavioral intervention and threat assessment. Laura has a passion for supporting young adults, especially millennials, and women of color. She utilizes a multicultural and trauma-informed lens in the therapeutic space, and values being genuine, collaborative and warm in her approach.
Laura's professional interests include supporting others navigating stressful life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood. She strives to help others cultivate work/life balance and wants to empower managers and leaders to create a culture of care in the workplace. Laura is trained in evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. She blends treatment modalities to individualize the therapeutic experience for her clients. Laura is bilingual and can also provide services in Spanish!
Geeti Shirazi Mahajan, LCSW-S, MPH, C-IAYT
Geeti has worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Yoga Therapist since 2012. Her clinical experience includes working at a psychiatric inpatient hospital, an intensive outpatient group setting, and an academic integrative medical setting. Geeti specializes in working with survivors of trauma and offers individual and group therapy at the EAP and in her private practice.
Laura Gómez-Horton, LCSW-S
Laura Gómez-Horton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board-Approved Supervisor through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners. She has been practicing in the Central Texas area for over 25 years.
Laura has extensive experience providing bilingual (English and Spanish) services for individuals, children, families, groups, and communities in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault, trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, immigration, parenting, identity, inter-generational issues, grief and loss, and life transitions. She has experience in counseling, case-management, university teaching, clinical and administrative supervision, training and consultation, group facilitation, non-profit work, and program development. She has also provided bilingual trainings on topics including, but not limited to, trauma-informed practice, de-mystifying mental health, self-regulation, self-care,parenting, resiliency, secondary trauma, burnout, leadership development, and work-life balance.
Laura approaches services through a person-centered lens working from a trauma-informed, Relational-Cultural model. She is a trained Circle of Security (COS) Parent Educator and Trust-Based Relational Intervention Practitioner (TBRI). Both COS and TBRI are evidence-based, attachment-based, and trauma-informed programs targeted at supporting parents and caregivers in understanding the complex needs of their youth and deepening their connections. She integrates knowledge of the neurobiology of trauma and somatic practices as well as a variety of healing strategies through writing, creative arts, and movement.
Sravya Penubarthi
Sravya Penubarthi is a graduate student in the clinical social work program, completing her final practicum at the Employee Assistance Program. With a foundation in holistic wellness, she brings this understanding into her work. A trained yoga instructor, Sravya is currently pursuing trauma-conscious yoga therapy. Prior to her current program, Sravya worked in India as a mental health counselor, supporting young adults through transitions, particularly those experiencing anxiety. Her experience also includes community mental health and advocacy for accessible mental health care. Sravya's approach is rooted in relational practices, drawing from narrative and attachment orientations. Her heart-centered, needs-focused style emphasizes meeting clients wherever they are in their journey. She integrates various therapeutic approaches to provide individualized support. Sravya believes in the power of picture books and children literature to help process deep emotions, for adults. She also values the role of play, slowing down, and compassionate connection as key to personal and professional healing and growth. She is dedicated to creating spaces of healing and connection in places of employment.