Walkiria E. Raposo, LCSW

Walkiria “Walki” Raposo is a licensed clinical social worker at UT Health Austin Pediatric Psychiatry at Dell Children’s, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. Raposo is also a part of UT Health Austin’s Integrated Behavioral Health team. With over 10 years of experience, Raposo has provided mental health services to diverse populations in a variety of settings, including health settings, school-based services, child welfare, community services, programs for survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and legal advocacy. Raposo has experience in trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, cognitive behavioral therapies, solution-focused brief therapy and other therapeutic modalities. Raposo specializes in anxiety, chronic health conditions, chronic pain, depression, family violence/intimate partner violence, and trauma and is dedicated to providing mental health services to youth, individuals and families.

Raposo earned her master’s in social work from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and her bachelor’s in criminal justice and sociology from Chestnut Hill College. She completed graduate level internships in school-based counseling with the International Center for the Disabled at P.S. 146 in Harlem, New York, and in health social work at Jacobi Medical Center’s Outpatient Oncology Clinic in Bronx, New York.