Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C is a licensed Clinical Social Worker currently serving as a Military Behavioral Health Child Social Worker with the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences located in Bethesda, MD. In this role, Ms. Heflin works on the Department of Defense Child Collaboration Study and is responsible for identifying best practices for expanding and disseminating telehealth services to military children with mental health, emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs. Ms. Heflin also develops curriculum and facilitates evidenced based training to behavioral health clinicians and community providers caring for military children and families.

Prior to joining CDP, Ms. Heflin's clinical work has included working with children, adolescents, and adults providing individual and group therapy, care management and outreach services. Clinical work settings include psychiatric emergency departments, inpatient hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, forensic and school settings. Her educational background includes a Master’s degree in Social Work with a clinical concentration in mental health, families and children from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is tri-licensed as an Independent Clinical Social Worker in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.