Experience

The New York Foundling

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Psychotherapist

  • Nov 2020 - Present

• Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment

  • Aug 2019 - Nov 2020

  Responsibilities as a CPST Provider (non counselor) are Rehabilitation Psychoeducation for youth/family/collaterals about treatment, environmental stressors and family/personal/community supports; development/facilitation of Youth Group in various regions; implementation of Trauma Systems Therapy strategies and techniques in individual or group sessions. Other duties include Strengths Based Service Planning by assisting the child/youth and family members or other collaterals with identifying strengths and need, resources, natural supports and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness. I also provide Rehabilitative Supports through restoration, rehabilitation, and support to minimize the negative effects of behavioral health symptoms or emotional disturbances that interfere with the child youth's daily functioning.



The New York Foundling

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Therapist

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2019

  Provided individual therapy for youths within the foster care agency, including the youth’s foster parent as a collateral. Implemented therapy centered on a trauma informed modality utilizing components of AF-CBT Alternatives for Families Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Administered therapy comprised of positive parenting, learning and practicing affect identification, affect regulation and coping skills, as well as the development of a trauma narrative, which involves personal processing of experiences of trauma through imaginal exposure. Co-createded court letters for the purpose of reunification of foster child and birth parent.