Experience

Oliver-Pyatt Centers

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

• Clinical Director

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  Direct a 23-bed residential treatment facility providing evidence-based care for individuals with all DSM-5 eating disorder diagnoses. Create and maintain programming schedules, group development, and employee management and training. Manage crisis and safety/risk assessments for clients with high suicidality and other risk factors. Oversee utilization management, physician appeals, and doctor-to-doctor case consultations for clients’ continued insurance coverage. Collaborate between multidisciplinary medical, psychiatric, and nutrition teams, and oversee communication between referral sources and outpatient providers. Supervise staff on clinical case conceptualization and logistic case management.

• Assistant Clinical Director

  • Sep 2018 - Feb 2020

  Assisted in the 24-hour management of all clinical functions and admission/clinical intake process. Provided effective leadership to the clinical staff and participate in programmatic decision-making. Managed crisis situations and risk/safety assessments, created novel programming at residential and day program levels, completed peer reviews and appeals.

• Primary Therapist

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2018

  Fostered meaningful and authentic relationships while providing individual, group, and family therapy. Conducted psychosocial and bio-psychosocial assessments. Collaborated in multidisciplinary treatment plan formulation and reviews, demonstrating adequate preparation and understanding of client issues, progress, areas of resistance, positive and negative strategies. Advocated for continued insurance coverage.