She enjoys working with individual clients, couples, and groups. Angie joined the Student Wellness team in December 2015. As a clinical therapist, mindfulness is integrated into her practice as a valuable tool. Angie was introduced to meditation through extensive yoga practice and workshops, finding that slowing down and paying attention are positives! As a recovering perfectionist and constant “doer,” mindfulness provided her with calmness, balance, and a place for compassion and acceptance. She has served multiple populations from children to teens in the juvenile justice system, children and teens in the day treatment, outpatient, and school settings, as well as families in distress. Along the way, she earned a Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy.
She was trained in psychodynamic theory, family systems approaches and mediation during her work toward her master’s degree. Angie attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Social Work. She returned to the workface in sales and began to work toward her goal of becoming a therapist.
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In his free time, Jim enjoys live blues music, learning new things, and napping with his dog, Henry.Īfter earning a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from the University of Arkansas, Angie enjoyed a career in finance, sales, and marketing until she took three years away to raise her son. He has since worked in suicide prevention, crisis intervention, foster care and adoption recruitment/training, clinical case management, school social work, and individual/group/family therapy. Jim graduated with a concentration in Children and Youth and a Family Therapy specialization in May 1997. An initial interest in child welfare narrowed to a passion for child, adolescent, and family mental health issues as expressed in traumatized children and teens. Louis to join the Master of Social Work program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. After earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of Arkansas, Jim moved to St.
Prior work centered on mental health with kids, teens, and families, so the move to the Student Wellness Program provided an opportunity to hone skills in individual work with adults. Jim Holland, MSW, LCSW, joined the UAMS Student Wellness team in February 2014. He is a certified Koru Mindfulness Teacher and is also trained in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program (MBSR). His strong belief in the importance of Mindfulness practice to help relieve stress led him to establish the UAMS Mindfulness Program with a Chancellor’s Circle of Excellence grant. In addition to providing direct clinical care, he has been actively conducting outreach efforts to increase awareness of Wellness, destigmatizing mental illness to encourage students/residents/faculty to seek help, and promoting wellness activities.
In his current role as the Director of the UAMS Wellness Programs, he has brought a passion and dedication to improving and promoting the wellbeing of our students, residents, and faculty. Over the course of his academic career, he has published over 40 papers and book chapters, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Archives of General Psychiatry. Thapa is a highly respected educator and psychiatric clinician at UAMS and has received numerous teaching awards from students and residents. He is the founding Director of the UAMS Mindfulness Program, a Professor of Psychiatry, and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Epidemiology at the COPH. Puru Thapa is the Director of the UAMS Student, Resident, and Faculty Wellness Programs.
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