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Kaylee Limings Archey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has experience working in the community-based mental and behavioral health setting. Kaylee is a 2019 Kentucky Christian University graduate of the social work program where she also received a double major in biblical studies. She obtained her masters in social work in 2020 from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with an emphasis in administration and community practice. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in social work with an emphasis in clinical practice at the University of Kentucky and will graduate in May of 2023. Kaylee is currently a therapist at Pathways, Inc in Northeastern Kentucky and she is an assistant professor and field coordinator at Kentucky Christian University in the Social Work and Counseling Psychology Department. Kaylee’s passion is to lead people to, and be actively involved in, productive change. Whether that’s a change within themselves, those around them, or in their community. This passion is what sparked her interest in her capstone research project that addresses involuntary psychiatric treatment, self-determination theory, and treatment interventions/outcomes. She believes that we will see change within ourselves, communities, and world when we strive to equip and empower others to carry out and lead change within themselves and those around them.