Tenisha R. Hunter, LCSW-S

Tenisha R. Hunter, LCSW-S, is a licensed clinical social worker in UT Health Austin Pediatric Psychiatry at Dell Children’s, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She is also a part of UT Health Austin’s integrated behavioral health care team. She specializes in working collaboratively with children and adolescents and their families to provide biopsychosocial assessments, establish therapeutic goals, implement brief interventions to improve overall functioning and coordinate with schools and community providers to address concerns related to mood disorders, adjustment difficulties, grief, loss and trauma. She also contributes to team-based telehealth consultation services through the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine initiatives.

Hunter earned both her bachelor’s degree with an emphasis on psychology and her master’s degree in social work with a clinical focus from The University of Texas at Austin in Austin. While in graduate school, she was able to participate in many research studies with the Social Work Center for Research and gained additional training in dialectical behavior therapy.

Hunter considers herself to be a hybrid social worker, and with that comes community engagement by way of grant writing. Hunter is passionate about supporting the emotional needs of children and families in Central Texas.