Jamie P. Ingram, LCSW, LCAS

Jamie Ingram has seventeen years of social work experience in a variety of settings. She began her career in North Carolina as a child welfare social worker, and built a solid practice foundation providing direct services to children and their families. Upon earning clinical licensure, Ingram later served as a Crisis Counselor for the Town of Chapel Hill, NC Police Department. As a Crisis Counselor, Ingram had the unique opportunity to work with law enforcement to implement clinical interventions and alternate responses to emergency situations including domestic violence and mental health crises. Ingram has also facilitated parenting groups utilizing the “Strengthening Families Program” curriculum for two entities that provided addiction services to women and their children. Ingram also spent some time as an Intensive In-home Therapist working with youth. 

Ingram has also served as a member of the University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care team as an Inpatient Social Worker for the Clinical Care Management department. After several years in this role, she then joined the UNC Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program. In her current role as a Clinical Addictions Specialist, she provides individual and group therapy and uses a strengths-based perspective to support interventions such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, aspects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Seeking Safety, Motivational Interviewing, psychoeducation, relapse prevention, and other treatment modalities. She has also been recognized as one of the distinguished Diversity Leaders within UNC Health Care system through the Center for Leadership Excellence. 

Ingram received her Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Political Science from North Carolina Central University in 2002; Master of Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2004; and is currently pursuing her studies towards a Doctorate in Social Work from Tulane University with an expected graduation date of May 2022. Ingram is currently an Interdisciplinary Minority Fellow, through the American Psychological Association, funded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration.