Crystal Socha, MS, LPC, CRC, NCC, ACS (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and Senior Training and Consultation Specialist at Rutgers School of Health Professions in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions. Crystal’s primary role includes providing in-person and remote training, consultation, and technical assistance to New Jersey agencies that provide Community Support Services. She has over ten years of experience in the behavioral health field, delivering trauma-informed, culturally responsive, gender-affirming care and supporting individuals in building a life worth living. Before joining Rutgers, she provided recovery-oriented services in supportive housing, intensive in-home and in-community, community mental health centers, integrated primary care, hospital systems, and private practices. She is currently undergoing her dissertation process with research interests in anti-fat biases amongst mental health professionals, disordered eating, and social justice. She has her own private practice working with individuals to heal their relationship with their body and food, using a weight inclusive, non-diet approach.