Chaundra Finley-Merrell, LCSW
Clinical social worker focused on mental health and psychosocial support for people impacted by forced migration. Currently compiling artwork datasets and analyzing clinical phenomena to explore how visual stabilization patterns drive therapeutic change, with emerging implications for physics and technology-- modernizing outdated nonprofit funding structures and reshaping immigration policy.
Chaundra is a program consultant for organizations helping them build and scale mental health programming, and develop practicum training infrastructure.
She is the Director of the U.S. implementation of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (YTT), an arts-based MHPSS intervention operating across community, and virtual settings. Chaundra explores human stabilization within arts-based therapeutic frameworks and how those processes connect to broader principles of adaptation in complex systems.
As a board member for the nonprofit organization, Chrysalis Community, she writes grants and organizes community projects. Chrysalis Community is a newly founded nonprofit that brings psychological expertise directly to individuals and communities through therapeutic intervention, education, research, and training.
Interests
The art work patterns of human stabilization after profound disruption.
The spontaneous organic healing that sits between the mind and body, somatically expressed through art.
psychology, art, physics, systems theory, forced migration, AI development, qubit stabilizations, clinical practicum development, clinical social work, program design, neuroscience, integration, policy implications