Ms. Williams is the Houston-based Project Coordinator and Behavioral Health Specialist on the NIH-funded CHOICES-TEEN study. She earned her master’s in counseling from Louisiana Tech University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Ms. Williams is responsible for the implementation, coordination, and administration of the CHOICES-TEEN research project, providing extensive training, coaching, and procedural guidance to Houston-based team members. Equipped with over 10 years of experience in the field of behavioral and mental health, Ms. Williams also conducts clinical assessments and delivers a motivational interviewing-based intervention to participants involved in the study. Before joining the HBRT family, Ms. Williams used her clinical skills to provide outpatient counseling services and case management to students and their parents in an elementary school setting for a national nonprofit.