Christina Rheingold is a licensed clinical social worker, with a private practice as an independently contracted individual therapist.

Professor Rheingold graduated from California State University of Chico in 2006, with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), and spent three years serving children and families. She later received a Master of Social from the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in 2011, with concentrations in Community, Organization, Planning, and Administration (COPA), and Military Social Work. Professor Rheingold spent the next five years serving veterans and their families experiencing homelessness with the Housing Urban Development –Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) at the federal, for profit and nonprofit levels.

In 2018, Professor Rheingold became program liaison for Volunteers of America, Los Angeles (VOALA), Veteran Services. Through integrated social work practices, she helped oversee veteran service programs, and established program policies, procedures and standard of operations according to contractual agreements with program funders. With VOALA’s goal of expanding veteran services, she helped develop and launch programs for veterans experiencing homelessness, such as transitional and emergency housing, and veteran direct services. During this time, Professor Rheingold began providing clinical supervision to social work student interns at USC. She challenged interns on how to apply evidence-based practices - such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, psychosocial support, seeking safety and motivational interviewing - into micro, mezzo and macro levels related to the school of social work core competencies.

In 2020, Professor Rheingold spearheaded the launch of the Veteran Peer Access Network (VPAN), a unique program that is staffed by veterans and military family members. In 2021, Professor Rheingold received The California Department of Veteran Affairs (CalVet) Women Veteran Advocates of the Year award for her contribution as a community leader for military and veteran communities. She is also the recipient of the America’s Warrior Partnership Competency Certificate, that acknowledges the VOALA VPAN program as community integration competent.