Starlett Armstrong

Starlett Armstrong is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Tennessee with 15 years of experience in behavioral health. She began her career after graduating from Eastern Michigan University and brings a long history of clinical leadership and frontline practice to her work.

Her early roles included serving as a protective service specialist in both Tennessee and Michigan, where she developed skills in forensic interviewing, solution-focused planning, crisis intervention, evidence gathering, and court-related actions. Those responsibilities gave her a deep understanding of youth and family dynamics as well as the legal processes that affect minors. She has conducted forensic interviews to assess allegations of abuse or neglect and applied trauma-informed, solution-focused techniques during crisis interventions to help preserve family stability.

Armstrong has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in crisis. As a former crisis counselor with Youth Villages, she completed clinical and risk assessments and client evaluations to diagnose severe and persistent mental illnesses, and when necessary facilitated in-patient psychiatric care to ensure safety. In a consulting role with the University of Tennessee, she collaborated with foster care and juvenile justice staff to help ensure children entering state custody received appropriate services and levels of care.

For a decade she served as Director of Clinical Services for a 73-bed residential facility, and about one year ago she took on leadership of a 30-bed psychiatric hospital treating children, adolescents, and adults. Because she frequently works with people who have trauma histories, she became a certified clinical trauma professional. Her clinical training includes EMDR, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model. She holds a Tennessee clinical social work license under TN LCSW 7161 and applies her knowledge and experience to support a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger management, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, addictions, LGBTQ issues, relationship and family conflicts, grief, parenting and career challenges, depression, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Armstrong offers a blend of trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches tailored to each person’s needs, and she welcomes the opportunity to be considered as a therapeutic resource.