Experience

Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth, Inc.

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outpatient Therapist

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  -Provide individual and family sessions to identify stressors impacting mental health -Identify coping strategies to regulate negative emotion and trauma responses -Create treatment plans to address core problems -Coordinate with collaterals to ensure continuity of care -Administer assessments to appropriately screen and treat mental health disorders -Process endorsements with client and family members to effectively treat client Supervise intern from Wilmington University Graduate Program -Develop intern therapeutic orientation and implementation of intervention Show less

• Family Therapist

  • Dec 2016 - Oct 2019

  • Provide intensive family, individual and crisis-based interventions to youth and families.o Explore generational patterns of trauma and provide crisis managemento Provide case management with oversight from Prevention Behavioral Health for clients to obtain community resources and advocate for emotional behavioral support in school  Complete monthly reviews of therapeutic progress and areas of growth Advocate for needs and progress of clients participating in mental health court Accompany clients to Family Court to provide testimony regarding treatment goalso Participate in monthly Family Based educational training to acquire relational methods to engage family members in therapeutic process• Engage primary caregiver(s) and other key participants in active, change-oriented treatmento Identify familial roles in conflict and coping skills to reduce physical reactions to triggers Create treatment plans based on challenges identified by family members • Provide crisis interventions and stabilization to clients/familieso Implement crisis assessment and de-escalation techniques to disrupt pattern of hospitalization Provide on call response for crisis in home, school, hospital, and community including law enforcement contact Show less



Academy of Physical and Social Development

• Newton, MA

• Intern

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2019

  -Meet weekly with 3 individual clients with Individual Education Programs (IEP) -Ensure client progress meets counseling and academic goals -Co-lead Middle School social skills lunch group -Co-lead Social Skills and Behavior Management group with clients of varying diagnoses -Girls group age 8-9 years old with Anxiety Disorder -Boys group ages 9-11 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -Boys group ages 14-16 with Autism Spectrum Disorder -Meet weekly with 3 individual clients with Individual Education Programs (IEP) -Ensure client progress meets counseling and academic goals -Co-lead Middle School social skills lunch group -Co-lead Social Skills and Behavior Management group with clients of varying diagnoses -Girls group age 8-9 years old with Anxiety Disorder -Boys group ages 9-11 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -Boys group ages 14-16 with Autism Spectrum Disorder



United Cerebral Palsy

• MetroBoston

• Intern

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  -Performed weekly home visits for geriatric clients in independent living program -Assess level of comfort and Care Attendant support Co-led geriatric morning group with six clients at Marquardt Nursing Home -Discussed and processed late adult transitions such as loss and building new friendships -Performed weekly home visits for geriatric clients in independent living program -Assess level of comfort and Care Attendant support Co-led geriatric morning group with six clients at Marquardt Nursing Home -Discussed and processed late adult transitions such as loss and building new friendships