Priscila Llamosa
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- SW 873 Neuroscience for Social Work Practice
- SW 856 The Science of Social Work
- SW 855 Supervision, Ethics, and Professional Practice
- SW 864 Advanced Policy for Social Work Practice
- SW 722 Psychopathology
Highlighted Publications
- Llampsa, P. (2024). Reclaiming social justice: Using a metatheoretical supervision model to (re)orient clinical practice to social work’s core value. Advances in Social Work, 24(2), 244–265.
- Llamosa, P. (2026). Neuro Social Work: From translation to specialization through the critical integration of neuroscience in practice. Journal of Social Work Practice.
- Llamosa, P., & Wetmur, A. (2025). For a more holistic conceptualization of supervision: Challenges and opportunities for clinical practice. Social Work, 70(3), 255–257.
Current Projects
- Llamosa, P. (2025). Handbook for the recently admitted: A practical guide for the University of Kentucky’s Doctor of Social Work students. OER Commons. https://saalck.pressbooks.pub/dsw-handbook/
Student & Research Availability
- Research or Interest Area Key Words: social justice-informed supervision, epistemic justice, neuro social work, anti-oppressive pedagogy, identity-conscious practice.
Alma Mater
University of Kentucky
Get to Know Priscila
Priscila Llamosa, DSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, supervisor, author, and speaker. She serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. Her scholarship centers on integrating neuroscience into social work practice and education through a holistic, social justice-informed lens; advancing epistemic justice for minoritized students and practitioners; and developing identity-conscious approaches to psychotherapy and supervision.
Dr. Llamosa is a mixed-ethnicity, Latine, cisgender woman whose practice and supervision frameworks are grounded in social justice, decolonizing, and anti-oppressive approaches. She brings over a decade of experience across social work practice, leadership, and higher education. She earned her Doctor of Social Work from the University of Kentucky, as well as her Master of Social Work and graduate certificate in Military and Trauma Counseling from East Carolina University, where she received the Maria McMahon Achievement Award from the School of Social Work in 2015. She was also selected as a 2022 Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellow at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.