Lisa Pineda, LCSW-R, is the Mental Health Director and a senior-level psychotherapist at Terra Firma, a medical-legal-mental health partnership (embedded in Montefiore Hospital's Bronx Health Collective) that provides trauma-informed services to unaccompanied immigrant youth and asylum-seeking families. Lisa specializes in child and adolescent mental health and is trained in several evidence-based therapeutic interventions (AF-CBT, CPP, EMDR, PSB-CBT-S, TF-CBT, TGCT-A, SPARCS). Lisa trains mental health, medical, and legal professionals on best practices when working with unaccompanied immigrant youth and asylum-seeking families. Lisa is also a consultant through both the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth in the Problematic Sexual Behavior - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for School Age model (PSB-CBT-S) and Terra Firma National. With over 15 years of experience contributing to the research and refining of therapeutic interventions with Latino immigrant population, Lisa's recent scholarly publications include "Working with parents and children separated at the border: Examining the impact of the Zero Tolerance policy and beyond," Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (2019), and "Mental health as the cornerstone of effective medical-legal partnerships for asylum-seekers: The Terra Firma model," Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2022). Lisa has also collaborated with Southern Poverty Law Center's litigation for asylum-seeking families separated at the border during Zero Tolerance Policy. Lisa holds an MSW degree from Adelphi University.