Experience

Steve Hicks School of Social Work

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Program and Training Coordinator

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  Provides motivational interviewing (MI) training, coaching, and supervision to behavioral health specialists delivering interventions in support of federally funded research projects, with a focus on reducing substance exposed pregnancies and other adverse health behaviors in primary care settings; conducts research program managment activities to include developing and monitoring project timelines, action items, data collection, and research protocols.

• Clinical Social Worker/Research Assistant

  • Nov 2011 - Jul 2015

  Delivered MI informed brief intervention and follow-up assessments in support of the Traumatic Injury and Prevention (TIP) research project aimed at reducing substance use behaviors to patients admitted at a Trauma Level 1 Hospital located in Austin, TX

• Clinical Social Worker/Project Coordinator

  • Aug 2009 - Mar 2013

  Delivered short-term problem solving therapy (PST-Primary Care) via tele-therapy or in-home sessions to homebound olders adults experiencing depression in support of the federally funded Telehealth Problem Solving Treatment of Homebound Older Adults research project.



Family Eldercare

• Austin, Texas, United States

• Mental Health Counselor

  • Mar 2014 - Jul 2015

  Provided weekly short and long-term in-home counseling services to homebound older adults suffereng from mental health issues including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorker, trauma, and grief and loss Provided weekly short and long-term in-home counseling services to homebound older adults suffereng from mental health issues including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorker, trauma, and grief and loss