Experience

Children's Mental Health Services

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Services Manager

  • Nov 2021 - Present



Campbellford Memorial Hospital - Community Mental Health Centre

• Campbellford, ON

• Clinical Case Manager - Early Psychosis Intervention

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2021

  Case management and counselling with clients aged 14 - 35 who are experiencing first episode psychosis. Case management and counselling with clients aged 14 - 35 who are experiencing first episode psychosis.



Kingston Health Sciences Centre

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Social Worker - Medicine Unit and Dialysis Centre

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014



Northumberland Hills Hospital Community Mental Health Services

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• Therapist (MSW candidate)

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

  - Conducted intake assessments with new clients. - Provided counselling to individuals experiencing symptoms of mental illness, with ongoing revision of goals for therapy. - Utilized integrative psychotherapy model, pulling from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Brief Solution Focussed Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, and Emotion Focussed Therapy. - Co-facilitated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Group. - Co-facilitated Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Group. - Conducted crisis assessments in the Emergency Department for patients exhibiting symptoms consistent with mental illness.



Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre

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• Community Counsellor (MSW candidate)

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  - Provided individual and group counselling to women experiencing physical, emotional and/or verbal abuse. - Co-facilitated Stepping Foreword group, the first in a series of psychoeducational groups about intimate partner violence. - Co-facilitated Child Witness - Moms Group, developed to educate mothers about cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses in children who have witnessed violence in the home and to teach strategies to begin the healing process with their children. - Conducted risk assessments. - Utilized Motivational Interviewing as the primary modality in individual counselling as per the organizations mandate. - Facilitated connections with community organizations and resources. - Provided support to clients in the community, including attending family court with clients, and accompanying clients to the Emergency Department to meet with the Crisis Worker when at high risk for suicide.



The Hospital for Sick Children

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Child Life Specialist - Oncology

  • Jun 2011 - Jun 2012



Canadian Cancer Society

• Canada
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Volunteer Resources Coordinator

  • Aug 2010 - Jun 2011



Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Child Life Specialist II - Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Liver Transplant

  • Nov 2008 - Jul 2010



Kingston Health Sciences Centre

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Child Life Specialist

  • Aug 2006 - Nov 2008