Director of Workforce Strategy & Initiatives
Resilient Georgia
MACON, Georgia
Dr. Meyer Stinson is the Director of Workforce Strategy & Initiatives at Resilient Georgia. As Director of Workforce Strategy & Initiatives, she leads Resilient Georgia’s advisory role for the Mental Health Career Accelerator program (formerly known as the National Mental Health Workforce Acceleration Collaborative). She is dedicated to growing and strengthening Georgia’s workforce of trauma informed professionals, while simultaneously identifying barriers, facilitators, and solutions related to Georgia’s mental health workforce shortages. She is co-founder of Resilient Middle Georgia where she has helped to build awareness about positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs), resilience, and trauma informed care across an 11-county area.
Dr. Meyer Stinson has worked therapeutically with children, couples, families, and communities since 2001. She has trained extensively in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR). She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor. She was also recently appointed by the Governor to the Licensure Composite Board for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Georgia. With more than two decades of experience working in academia, she has taught undergraduate, graduate, and medical students as a professor in Mercer University’s School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics. She is past president for the Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (GAMFT) and a former board member for Resilient Georgia. She earned her doctoral degree from The Florida State University, master’s degree from Purdue University, and two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Georgia.
D18 - Voices From the Field: A Candidate's Journey to Licensure in the Accelerator Program
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT