Kim Ragan is the Director of Integrated Behavioral Health and Women’s Behavioral Health Services at Inova Health System in Fairfax, VA. She is a licensed clinical social worker, licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner and certified substance abuse counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Prior to joining Inova, Kim spent many years working in substance abuse treatment, initially as a clinician providing direct care to clients, transitioning to supervising both intensive outpatient and inpatient medical detox at Novant Health UVA Health System. She then served as clinical director at Encore Outpatient Services, a regional office of the Richard J. Caron Foundation, where she oversaw clinical operations for partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and general outpatient programs.

Kim completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and a master’s in social work at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her experience in women’s mental health spans most of her career, starting at Emory University’s School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, conducting research on the treatment of psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and postpartum. In Emory’s psychology department, she conducted research on the impact of maternal mental illness on infants.

Kim has experience working with adolescents, young adults and seniors in various settings including the foster care system, university healthcare, primary healthcare, inpatient psychiatric care and home-based counseling services. She is specially trained in perinatal mental health, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and eye movement desensitization reprocessing.

Kim has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-wrote the 2006 American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric, neurologic and addictive disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period.