Her research focuses on providing access to crisis intervention services to persons affected by brain injury, particularly those individuals with co-morbid psychiatric or mental health diagnoses. With Dr. Cynthia O’Donoghue and JMU BIRT (Brain Injury Research Team), Cara has served as co-principal investigator on three action research grants that systematically evaluate and explore individual, societal, and organizational barriers to accessing care. Most recently, Drs. Meixner and O’Donoghue published a large-scale study for the Commonwealth of Virginia on neurobehavioral services in Virginia.