Timothy Hook, LCSW

Tim is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Tennessee who is trained in behavioral health with five years of clinical experience. He has worked in a variety of settings from individual therapy and short-term counseling to crisis intervention and addiction recovery. Before his career in behavioral health, he served in the USAF and retired after twenty-one years. Tim started his training at MTSU's social work program where he learned the fundamentals of human development, the therapeutic relationship, and how people make positive changes. While in the undergraduate program he interned at a non-profit in Clarksville, TN. He learned how to gather information and identifying needs of veterans, located services, and advocated for veterans in the community. After the first semester in his master’s program, he started specialized training in an inpatient treatment program where he provided individual assessment, biopsychosocial interviews, and psychotherapy services to sociocultural diverse adult population diagnosed with depression, addiction, PTSD, and other affective disorders. He learned to provide crisis intervention and co-led process groups. He also participated in somatic seminars and campus wide in-service training. After he finished with his master’s degree he started as Primary Therapist dealing with addictions inpatient facility. He provided individual and group psychotherapy services to culturally diverse male adults diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, attention disturbances, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. He collaborated with treatment clinical team to develop individualized treatment plans. He led daily psychotherapy groups using multi-modal approaches: cognitive therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, somatic/experiential therapy, and psycho-educational information. After he left the primary therapist position Tim’s next step was being assigned to the Emergency Department within the Veteran Affairs Healthcare System with responsibility to provide direct services to veterans and their families. The he evaluated psychosocial needs and applies social work interventions to complex situations that arise in the Emergency Department setting during his tour of duty. He assessed and provided appropriate social work emergency care treatment options and interventions, and discharge placement options. Special attention was be provided to potential acute care admissions for reasons of self-care deficit, homelessness, placement, acopia, and/or social or environmental factors.