Faculty

Rick Barinbaum, LMSW, is a clinical social worker, educator,and practitioner. He teaches at the U-M School of Social Work, co-teaches in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic (CALC) and Human Trafficking Lab at the U-M Law School, and consults across several clinics at the law school. Rick provides both ...

Anthany Beasley, MSW ’15, focuses on individual, group and family practice with LGBTQIA+ youth, adolescents, young adults and families with a specific focus on working with transgender and non-binary individuals. Beasley currently provides trauma-informed therapeutic services from his private ...

Trevor Bechtel, PhD ’08, focuses on questions of ethics and the human in his teaching and scholarship. He works at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan coordinating all student-facing work. He has taught ethics and religion in small liberal arts colleges throughout the Great Lakes ...

Mona Berry joined the Office of Field Education as a Field Faculty and LEO Lecturer III in July, 2024. Previously, she served as the School Health/ Social Work Consultant at Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency), providing guidance, professional learning opportunities, training, ...

William Birdsall joined the School of Social Work as an associate professor of social work in 1973 and was named associate professor emeritus in 2001. His major interests were in policy analysis and program evaluation. He has done extensive work around policies regarding prevention and treatment ...

Dr. Lindsay Bornheimer's research program focuses on understanding and preventing suicide death among adults experiencing serious mental illness, with a specific focus on psychosis and schizophrenia. Her work aims to examine suicide risk and protective factors, advance theories of suicide, ...

Zahraa Boussi, MSW '14, is a licensed school social worker who specializes in students with disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Emotional Impairment. She is a Certified Trauma Practitioner - Clinical (CTP-C) from Starr Commonwealth. She has extensive experience in providing ...

Zaynab K. Boussi joined the Office of Field Education as field faculty and LEO Lecturer in May of 2021. Previously, she worked as a school social worker with the Dearborn Public Schools, where she also served as a field instructor. Boussi, a Dearborn native and daughter of Lebanese immigrants, ...

Amy C. Burandt (she / hers) joined the Office of Field Education team on March 15, 2021. Prior to coming on-board at the School of Social Work, her career focused on crisis intervention and suicide prevention, counseling individuals healing from trauma and sexual violence, mental health ...

Brooke Buys, MSW '13, PhD, focuses on innovative mental health care development, complex family systems and gender-responsive addiction treatment. Buys is the founder and CEO of BLND Health, a mental health care company located in Michigan and Colorado. The BLND team is composed of clinical ...