Experience

Playmore and Prosper

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

• Clinical Counseling Intern

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Using compassionate listening skills and evidence-based counseling and play therapy strategies to help children, parents, and families develop personal awareness, coping skills, solutions for challenging behaviors, and healthy therapeutic processing of difficult life circumstances. Using compassionate listening skills and evidence-based counseling and play therapy strategies to help children, parents, and families develop personal awareness, coping skills, solutions for challenging behaviors, and healthy therapeutic processing of difficult life circumstances.



Self-employed

• Mental Health Coach

  • May 2021 - Jul 2023

  Responsibilities included facilitating support and learning groups for individuals acting in a key support role for loved ones struggling with mental health challenges and meeting with individuals/families as requested for therapeutic processing and to discuss self-care strategies, coping skills for mental health struggles, and solutions for challenging behaviors. Responsibilities included facilitating support and learning groups for individuals acting in a key support role for loved ones struggling with mental health challenges and meeting with individuals/families as requested for therapeutic processing and to discuss self-care strategies, coping skills for mental health struggles, and solutions for challenging behaviors.



Freelance Writer and Blogger

• Writer - Health & Lifestyle

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2020

  Contributing Writer at Beyond Type 1, a global non-profit organization focused on bettering the lives of individuals with diabetes. Content Writing: website content, articles, brochures, social media content Health/Medical Writing: research proposals, journal articles, newsletters, patient or practitioner educational materials, promotional materials, case studies Contributing Writer at Beyond Type 1, a global non-profit organization focused on bettering the lives of individuals with diabetes. Content Writing: website content, articles, brochures, social media content Health/Medical Writing: research proposals, journal articles, newsletters, patient or practitioner educational materials, promotional materials, case studies



University of Minnesota

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Community Program Specialist

  • 2013 - 2015

  University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health Research Areas: School Wellness, Health Policy, Childhood Obesity Prevention Responsibilities included coordinating data collection of school district wellness policies across Minnesota, analyzing the content and rating the quality of the wellness policies, preparing data for presentation, writing and presenting research results. University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health Research Areas: School Wellness, Health Policy, Childhood Obesity Prevention Responsibilities included coordinating data collection of school district wellness policies across Minnesota, analyzing the content and rating the quality of the wellness policies, preparing data for presentation, writing and presenting research results.



Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Agency of Alaska

• Education & Outreach Specialist

  • 2004 - 2005

  Responsibilities included client, caregiver, and community education, facilitating support groups for caregivers, providing resources for individuals with cognitive disorders and their loved ones. Responsibilities included client, caregiver, and community education, facilitating support groups for caregivers, providing resources for individuals with cognitive disorders and their loved ones.



Yale University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Research Assistant

  • 2002 - 2004

  Yale University School of Medicine, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit Research Areas: Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Healthy Aging Responsibilities included coordinating clinical trials, administering cognitive and physiological assessments, monitoring the health status and well-being of participants and their family/study partners during their participation in a clinical trial, providing resources to individuals and families with special needs, compiling and maintaining medical and research records, recruiting participants for clinical trials. Show less



North Dakota State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • 1998 - 2002

  Research Areas: Chronic Pain, Eating Disorders, Hypnotic Response, Childhood Trauma/Abuse Responsibilities included conducting literature reviews, writing and editing research proposals for regulatory submission, recruiting and testing participants, conducting structured interviews, entering and analyzing data, developing self-report measures, mail survey distribution, editing psychological reports, presenting results at psychological conferences. Research Areas: Chronic Pain, Eating Disorders, Hypnotic Response, Childhood Trauma/Abuse Responsibilities included conducting literature reviews, writing and editing research proposals for regulatory submission, recruiting and testing participants, conducting structured interviews, entering and analyzing data, developing self-report measures, mail survey distribution, editing psychological reports, presenting results at psychological conferences.