Floriann Blackhorse

Floriann is a licensed clinical social worker. She has been working in the field of social work for over a decade in Arizona. She has specialties in trauma, addictions and ethnic issues. She worked in a crisis facility providing acute crisis intervention to individuals with serious mental illness and general mental health issues in the past. She also worked in hospitals and emergency rooms across the valley providing crisis counseling, evaluation and brief intervention to people in mental health crisis. She has worked in both outpatient and inpatient settings providing individual therapy and group therapy. Floriann grew up on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. She completed her education at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she got her Associates Degree in Social Work, and went on to complete her Bachelors and Masters degrees at Arizona State University, both in Social Work. While her work has primarily been people with mental health issues, her focus has always been on ethnic communities and especially the Indigenous communities providing cross cultural therapy, since service providers for these populations are few and far between. She also works as a part time Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Social Work. Floriann is a member of the Navajo Nation. She speaks the Navajo language and specializes in issues related to the Indigenous community.