LeAnn Gardner, LISW-CP, MDiv, is a licensed clinical social worker and an ordained minister. She received her Master of Social Work degree from Baylor University and her MDiv from Truett Seminary, also at Baylor. She began her career as a frontline Child Protective Services worker in Waco, Texas before serving in a local church as Associate Pastor. She taught Master level social work students at Baylor for 2 years on campus, before she found herself back in Charleston. It was there she began working at the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center as a therapist, conducting forensic interviews as well as helping children heal from their traumatic experiences through therapy. She has continued to serve as an adjunct faculty member with the Garland School of Social Work at Baylor and has helped to pioneer their distance learning program.
LeAnn’s passions are finding the intersection between faith and social work issues, particularly how people find resilience and healing through their faith after a traumatic event occurs. She also enjoys helping parents navigate 21st century issues with their children, with special attention to sexual development, using intuition as a protective factor, helping establish healthy communication patterns between parents and their children, and helping to mobilize a community of trusted adults to share in the privilege (and daunting) task of loving and rearing children. LeAnn is a right brained social worker married to a left brained engineer. Together, they (sometimes) compose a full brain. They have two sons, ages 4 and 1. If she is not tending to boys or teaching, she is baking, crafting, cheering on Baylor and Clemson, officiating weddings or planning her next party. She can be reached at [email protected] or 803.447.2003. |