Aynsley H. M. Scheffert, PhD, LICSW, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the 
University of Iowa. Dr. Scheffert began her social work career in community mental health 
psychotherapy and has six years of individual and group practice experience. She graduated with 
her PhD in Social Work from the Diana Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University in 2022. 
Her research focuses on organizational interventions to reduce burnout, compassion fatigue, and 
secondary traumatic stress and intentions to leave the profession in mental and behavioral health workers.