• Diverse clinical experience as an effective, devoted, articulate, mature, and energetic Mental Health Professional reinforced by thirteen years service in community and private mental health, crisis intervention services, and family preservation issues as a counselor and supervisor.
• Provided clinical services as part of multidisciplinary teams.
Extensive training and experience in providing therapy services in both private and public sectors. Additional areas of therapeutic expertise and experience.
Depression, anxiety, bipolar issues Crisis Intervention Counseling Juvenile Justice
Family relationship issues Grief, bereavement, and loss Parenting Issues
MR Case Management Social Functioning Treatment Planning
Highlights:
• Experienced therapist treating individuals and families from multicultural backgrounds across all income levels.
• Served on multidisciplinary teams with other mental health professionals, including social workers, nurses, psychologists, and physicians. Also served on multidisciplinary advisory board for the Toombs Judicial Circuit.
• Performed clinical interventions with Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice offenders.
• Experienced in psychometrics for disability, parenting, and mental health assessments.
Companies I like:
U. S. Government, Georgia State Government, Behavioral Health companies, Hospitals
• Provided in-home intensive family intervention services for youth and adolescents whose behavioral health problems are unmanageable in traditional outpatient treatment
• Provided in-home counseling services for the Department of Family and Children’s Services and the Department of Juvenile Justice for children in imminent danger of removal from home.
• Counseled children with a wide range of issues from ADHD to Conduct Disorder and Reactive Attachment Disorder. Also worked with children and parents with abuse and neglect problems
• Performed detailed Comprehensive Child and Family Assessments for children placed into foster care. Elements of these assessments included educational, medical, dental, and psychological components, together with proposal of clinical recommendations for earliest possible reunification of child(ren) and parents.
• Conducted alcohol and drug assessments for adolescents and adults.
• Trained in alcohol and drug rehabilitation for adolescents and adults using the 7 Challenges Program
• Experienced in psychological testing of youth, adolescent, and adult clients. Tested, interpreted results, gave diagnostic impressions, and wrote assessments for psychologist’s review and signature.
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