Lisa Pineda, LCSW-R
Director, Child and Adolescent Services
Lisa Pineda, LCSW-R, is a clinical social worker specializing in child and adolescent mental health with nearly 20 years of experience and training in multiple evidence-based therapeutic interventions. She previously served as Mental Health Director at Terra Firma, a medical-legal-mental health partnership within the Montefiore Bronx Health Collective that provides comprehensive, trauma-informed services to unaccompanied immigrant youth and asylum-seeking families.
Ms. Pineda currently also serves as a consultant with the National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth, where her work focuses on training implementation and cultural modifications for evidence-based interventions addressing problematic sexual behavior. As a consultant for Terra Firma National, Lisa trains mental health, medical, and legal professionals on best practices when working with unaccompanied immigrant youth and asylum-seeking families. She has more than 15 years of experience contributing to research and the development and refinement of therapeutic interventions for Latino immigrant populations.
Her recent scholarly publications include “Working with Parents and Children Separated at the Border: Examining the Impact of the Zero Tolerance Policy and Beyond,” published in Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (2019), and “Mental Health as the Cornerstone of Effective Medical-Legal Partnerships for Asylum-Seekers: The Terra Firma Model,” published in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (2022). She has also collaborated with the Southern Poverty Law Center on litigation supporting asylum-seeking families separated at the border during the Zero Tolerance Policy.
Ms. Pineda holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Adelphi University.
