Meet Our Founder & CEO

Dr. Williams diagnoses and treats mental health disorders in the health service setting. She is a trauma specialist that provides evidence-based treatment to child and adult populations. She also specializes in mood and anxiety disorders, co-occurring disorders, and suicidality. Her approach to evidence-based treatment integrates cognitive behavioral, neuro-relational, and integrated health interventions.

Dr. Williams received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2016 from an American Psychological Association-accredited program, the Wright Institute (Berkeley, CA). She completed her post-doctoral training as the first Indigenous psychologist to be employed at American Indian Health & Services (Santa Barbara, CA). She is a licensed in California, Hawaii, and New Mexico, and is a credentialed by the National Register for Health Service Psychologists.

Dr. Williams has seven years of post-doctoral experience in prevention research science for federally-funded projects (Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration and Indian Health Service). She has expertise in trauma-informed program design, and trains and coaches prevention staff in program implementation. As an evaluator, she specializes in mixed-methods approaches to needs assessments, readiness assessments, program evaluation (formative, process, outcome, and impact), and community-based participatory research. Her three years of pre-doctoral child and adult psychological assessment training informs her current trauma-informed approach to evaluation.

Williams, J. R. (2016). Adverse childhood events and adult substance abuse among urban and reservation American Indians (Doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute).

Knight, K., Love, M., Williams, J., & Vargas, M. (2023). Central Coast Regional Equity Initiative: Co-Creating and Actionizing a New Community-Led Equity Framework. Social Sciences, 12(8), 441.