Debbie Shepard, LCSW, RDDP, JD
About
Debbie Shepard is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, currently in private practice, with many years of clinical and supervisory experience in the behavioral health field. Her past jobs include a role as director of substance use treatment for a community agency and supervisory roles at other programs. She taught a substance use treatment course for Fordham’s online social work program and was selected as a subject matter expert and helped write questions for the CAADC exam. She has worked in a psychiatric hospital on the substance use treatment unit and in an emergency department. In her previous career, she worked as an attorney in juvenile abuse/neglect court. She co-leads canine assisted therapy groups. She is certified as dual disorder professional by Illinois Certification Board.
