Meet the Team
Lisa Austin
(She/Her)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Trauma Clinician
Lisa Austin, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker from the University of Chicago, is a trauma-informed clinician with extensive experience in emergency psychiatry, adult diagnostic assessment, and pediatric crisis evaluation. She began her career at Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she conducted comprehensive adult psychiatric evaluations in high-acuity emergency department settings, specializing in suicide risk assessment, differential diagnosis, and crisis stabilization guiding inpatient and outpatient disposition planning. She continued her practice at Evanston Hospital, splitting her time between ER evaluations and providing follow up outpatient treatment.
Prior to joining Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Lisa operated a private practice providing psychotherapy for trauma, mood integrating evidence-based interventions with diagnostic rigor.
At Lurie Children’s, Lisa served as Risk Specialist and Lead Clinical Social Worker, maintaining active clinical responsibilities. She conducted emergency department mental health and safety evaluations, including high-volume pediatric crisis assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing suicidality, abuse and neglect, LGBTQIA+ concerns, complex family systems, and ICU consultations. In addition she has volunteered as a trauma therapist at local community crisis events.
Sarah Bier
(She/Her)
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Certified Nurse Midwife
Sarah Bier is a certified mental health nurse practitioner and nurse midwife. She prioritizes building a warm relationship to encourage client safety, collaboratively set wellness goals, and equip clients with information and knowledge to make decisions that feel right for each individual. In partnership with clients, Sarah develops individualized treatment plans that are meaningful, empowering, and aligns with client values, unique experiences, and current symptoms. A treatment plan may include any combination of lifestyle changes, supplements, alternative and complementary therapies, psychotherapeutic and/or pharmacologic options.
Sarah is experienced providing care across the lifespan. She enjoys building trusting and collaborative relationships with young people and emerging adults to equip each individual for success.
She has a special interest and extensive training in perinatal and reproductive mental health, health at every size, LGBTQIA and non-binary concerns, and mood and anxiety disorders. Sarah has completed advanced training at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women's Mental Health and is certified in perinatal mental health by Postpartum Support International. She was a member of the first national cohort of National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry: Intensive Advanced Curriculum, affiliated with Marce Society of North America.
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