about
Chaundra Finley-Merrell, LCSW
Consultant, Clinician, Advocate
Founder, The MOBI 1 Project
About Chaundra
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), global MHPSS consultant, and program designer specializing in scalable, trauma-informed mental health infrastructure.
Niche in creating space:
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for people to connect and heal,
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for clinicians to learn how to create and hold that space,
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and for being curious about how system patterns and clinical phenomena are connected.
For over a decade, I've focused on supporting individuals and communities navigating forced migration, legal liminality, and complex trauma. After co-founding the Dallas IRC Mental Health & Wellness Program, I continued working through specialized consulting, building sustainable clinical training pipelines for NGOs and nonprofits. My clinical practice relies on a tri-phasic trauma framework, integrating nervous-system stabilization with somatic processing tools like Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT). I collaborates closely with organizations and community leaders to bridge formal clinical care with sustainable, grassroots support.
things about me:
1) currently reading Life on The Edge, by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
2) favorite thing to cook right now-- beer bread with honey butter
3) favorite photographers: Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz
the mobi 1 project
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Kristina Kirwin, LCSW
Consultant, Clinician, Advocate
About Kristina
Located in Austin, TX, Kristina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose work focuses on both providing clinical services through private practice and consulting services on mental health program development and design through MOBI. She holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Hispanic Studies from Boston College and an MSW degree from Simmons University. While pursuing her MSW degree, she completed a practicum program that provides mental health services to displaced populations including refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants and later went on to work for the agency after graduation. During that time she gained experience in sustaining and expanding the mental health program, supervising practicum students and managing data tracking and reporting initiatives. These experiences created a passion for helping other NGOs launch and develop their own mental health programs in order to continue to expand access to care for displaced populations. In her private practice work, Kristina specializes in working with populations who’ve been impacted by trauma as well as the perinatal population. She has specialized training in multiple trauma modalities including EMDR and TF-CBT.
