Tanya Greathouse, LCSW, Ph.D.

Biography

Tanya Greathouse, PhD, LCSW is presently an Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Affiliate Faculty at Smith College Social for Social Work. Dr. Greathouse’s positionality as a Black female informs her professional engagement an Associate Professor, and the Chair of Transformative Spaces of Belonging programming at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Social Work Department.  Her research interests include: Promoting the development of culturally aware and responsive Interprofessional Allied Health Teams, multicultural awareness in clinical social work supervisory relationships, multicultural organizational development and mitigating workforce vicarious trauma. She is Key Clinical Faculty on Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration Grant/Front Porch Supervision Initiative and Co-PD, on the USDA HSI grant to develop culturally aware leaders and role models from underrepresented minority college students (UMCS) who will be advocates for: diversity in the dietetic profession; the profession at large; underserved community members; and for policy change.  Dr. Greathouse has served on CSWE’s curriculum taskforces for Competency 2 (Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice) as Competency Chair for Curricular Guides on; Substance Use and Health Social Work and taskforce member for, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Neuroscience. Additionally, Dr. Greathouse has spearheaded numerous university initiatives to promote multicultural humility and cultural consciousness with using the Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI).  She provides faculty mentoring on how to facilitate critical conversations in the classroom on privilege, power and oppression and clinical supervision on how to infuse CLAS standards into social work practice.  Dr. Greathouse has utilized narrative therapy and storytelling techniques in psychotherapeutic practice with trauma survivors and end of life clients.