Experience

Magellan Behavioral Health

• Retail Art Supplies
• 300 - 400 Employee

• MILITARY AND FAMILY LIFE COUNSELOR

  • Oct 2012 - Present

  Working with Soldiers and Airmen return from Deployment in Afghanistan. Resolving issues while personnel deployed. Heavy emphasis on marriage and family issues. Continuing counseling for returning personnel with Anxiety, PTS, Depression, and relationship issues. Certified Tricare Counselor for Southern area. Working with Soldiers and Airmen return from Deployment in Afghanistan. Resolving issues while personnel deployed. Heavy emphasis on marriage and family issues. Continuing counseling for returning personnel with Anxiety, PTS, Depression, and relationship issues. Certified Tricare Counselor for Southern area.



Mental Health Network Govt Services

• Licensed Mental Health Counselor

  • 2008 - Oct 2012

  Counseling Soldiers and Airmen returning from deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Working with Military families during deployments and helping with reintegration when Military members return home. Heavy emphasis on marriage and family issues. Counseling Soldiers and Airmen returning from deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Working with Military families during deployments and helping with reintegration when Military members return home. Heavy emphasis on marriage and family issues.



Arizona Dept Of Corrections, Tucson,AZ

• Sex Offender Treatment Counselor

  • Apr 2005 - Apr 2008

  I worked with a clinical staff that included Psychologists, Social Workers, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs & LPCs). The then Governor, Janet Nepolitano, wanted to stop building prisons and to create sex offender treatment programs for sex offenders that would eventually be released from prison. We put together Clinical treatment programs that were primarily group treatment with limited one-on-one help available. These were 6 and 12 month programs. We were located at the Department of Corrections prison in Tucson, Arizona, (Winchester Unit). This was a prison yard with only sex offenders. 560 Child Molesters, Rapists, and various other sex offenses. We opened the programs to inmates on voluntary basis, with one on one assessments on each inmate before acceptance of them. We also put together a treatment program for low functioning inmates. The programs were well accepted and Department of Corrections was very satisfied with the treatment programs. The programs were updated as we progressed through the first year. I left after my 3rd year (Federal Grant ended). We also shared the programs with the Federal Prison System. The Probation Officers in Arizona worked with our group and said they could see the differences in released inmates that had finished our treatment program. I left after my 3rd year (Federal Grant ended). I still do some private work with these programs in Florida.



Brevard Alzheimer Assn - Florida

• Clinical Mental Health Counselor

  • Jan 1999 - Feb 2003

  Worked with Alzheimers patients and their Caregivers. Elder Services: Professional Guardian. Clinical Supervisor for three Alzheimers centers in Brevard County, Florida. Worked with Alzheimers patients and their Caregivers. Elder Services: Professional Guardian. Clinical Supervisor for three Alzheimers centers in Brevard County, Florida.