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. She draws from an anti-oppression lens, including a focus on body liberation. Jamie is the PEFSA liaison and welcomes contact from community members about how EAP can support the LGBTQIA+ community.
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. Jeff has provided culturally-sensitive services for diverse populations across the lifespan.
Danica Morgan, LCSW
Danica is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who has worked with an array of client demographics within various agency settings since entering the field in 2011, including active-duty military and veterans, people coming from chronic homelessness, young adults aging out of the foster care system, K-12 students and their families (including first-generation college students), people living with a physical disability, mental and/or substance use disorder, persons seeking inpatient behavioral healthcare, and older people with high geriatric needs. In addition to her work at the EAP, Danica has worked as a Victim Advocate with UT Austin Police Department's Victims Advocate Network to provide crisis and de-escalation interventions to students, staff, faculty, and visitors to campus who may have been impacted by a crime or distressing event.
She uses a mixture of therapeutic interventions such as attachment theory, motivational interviewing, and strengths-based and solutions-focused approaches. By integrating these techniques, she strives to create a supportive and transformative therapeutic environment that guides individuals toward greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, and personal growth. Her professional interests include understanding the neurobiology of trauma, holistic and somatic approaches to healing trauma, and providing compassionate care from an anti-oppressive, cultural humility lens. Danica serves as the liaison to the Black Faculty and Staff Association and Military/Veteran Faculty and Staff Association.
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, cultural 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.