Audrey Schield
Adjunct Professor
Part-Time Faculty
Biography
Audrey Schield, LCSW, is a bilingual psychotherapist, educator, and clinical consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. She brings experience across private practice, community mental health, schools, and interdisciplinary care settings.
Audrey is dedicated to ongoing education and engages in teaching and supervision of emerging clinicians, as well as development of resources that connect academic, clinical, and community-based providers. Motivated by the strengths of local communities, she is committed to strengthening connections between mental health and local organizations, recognizing that healing can occur in many forms and settings.
Expertise
- Third wave contextual behavioral practices (ACT, DBT, FAP)
- Motivational interviewing
- Art therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Family systems
Research Areas
- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
- LGBTQ+ mental health and health equity
- Neurodiversity affirming care
- Migration, asylum, and mental health
Education
- University of Chicago, MA in Social Work, Policy, and Practice
- Washington University in St. Louis, BA in Anthropology