Kelly Stevenson earned her Master of Social Work degree at Florida State University, and is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, and as an Independent Social Worker in Ohio. She has over ten years of clinical experience, including five years in outpatient community mental health, and over two years focusing on college students and staff. She is an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA) Approved Consultant, a volunteer Facilitator for the Trauma Recovery EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program (EMDR-HAP) and is an Integrative Restoration (iRest®) Level II Teacher-in-Training. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200).

She has served as the Knox Branch Board Representative of the Tennessee Chapter of the National Association of Social Work and served on the Chapter Ethics Committee. She has taught courses in social work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and served as a liaison to social work students in their field placements. She was formerly the Program Coordinator of the University of Tennessee’s Postgraduate Veterinary Social Work Certificate Program.

Kelly was a therapist in private practice at Clinch River Counseling, PLLC, in Roane County, Tennessee until 2017.  She is currently working with survivors of trauma at the Mount Carmel Crime and Trauma Assistance Program and is providing Employee Assistance Program services as a contractor for Spring Health and to those working in veterinary medicine through her LLC.