Sarah Ingram-Herring, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Ingram-Herring’s primary areas of interest include macro social work practice (community organizing, social advocacy, community development, and community action), community empowerment, community clinical practice in poor and socially oppressed communities. Additional areas of interest include school social work, mental health and wellness, racial trauma, cultural humility, and spirituality.

Dr. Sarah Ingram-Herring, Ph.D., LCSW, Assistant Professor of Social Work, is currently Director of the MSW program at Barry University School of Social Work. She began her career with BUSSW in 2006 as an Assistant Director of Field Education for the Palm Beach/Treasure Coast Program. She later moved into the role of Director of Field Education and served in that role until transitioning into her current role.  

Prior to her time at Barry University School of Social Work, Dr. Ingram-Herring’s clinical practice experience included work with at-promise infants/toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children, adolescents, and their families providing home-based and office-based outpatient counseling services. Dr. Ingram-Herring has extensive experience working in elementary, middle, and high school settings as a behavioral health professional. She has also worked at the grass-roots level through involvement in community organizing, community and program development, and the coordination of comprehensive wrap-around community support services and resources. Additionally, Dr. Ingram-Herring’s earlier work experience includes working in a domestic violence/rape crisis center, and she has served on the Governor’s Task Force Against Domestic Violence. She has worked as a social worker in a pediatric special immunology clinic and as a therapist in an adult clinic. Dr. Ingram-Herring has also worked in a community mental health center’s emergency screening/intake and crisis stabilization units. Dr. Ingram-Herring has been in private practice, served as a field instructor for MSW students and as a clinical supervisor to registered clinical social work interns, and is trained in EMDR.