Meet Our Students – Amber Hill (Dec ’16)

Amber Hill (Dec '16)

Amber Hill (Dec ’16) is pursuing an MSW (Clinical concentration) and MPH (Health Promotion and Behavior concentration).  She earned a Bachelors in Psychology from The University of Georgia in August 2013. 

Ms. Hill is interested in the effects of physical activity on mental health, specifically mood disorders.  Upon graduation, she plans to pursue clinical licensure so that she can practice counseling.  Her ultimate goal is to expand on her current personal training career to include mental health counseling in order to practice a more thorough approach to holistic health.  “You cannot have a healthy body without a healthy mind, and vice versa.”

Ms. Hill completed her foundation social work placement with Goodwill of North Georgia Career Services where she assisted case managers in constructing employment plans, provided personal social adjustment training, conducted job readiness training, and taught classes regarding obtaining jobs and work-appropriate behavior.

Ms. Hill says that she chose the dual MSW MPH program because, “Although I knew that I wanted to work in the mental health field, I did not feel as if I fit into any predefined professions. I want to be able to take the growing body of research concerning physical activity as a viable, effective, and affordable treatment and put it into practice. Public health contributes to the mental health treatment knowledge obtained in social work by scientifically assessing needs and providing methods to implement and monitor new treatments.”

Visit Ms. Hill’s LinkedIn Profile.