Versatile Mental Health Counselor with 12 years' experience providing , trauma work, childhood disorders, couple and marital counseling services. Successful in leveraging wide-ranging talents in needs evaluation and treatment planning to effectively assist patients. Quick to implement crisis intervention strategies to help patients in emotional distress. Adept in strengthening and enhancing treatment programs to ensure the best quality of service for patients.
Skills
- Successful private practice
- Practiced in family assessments
- Extensive DSM-IV knowledge
- Suicide precautions expertise
- Community resources specialist
- Family therapy background
- Clinical Quality Improvement
- Dual diagnosis expertise
- Clinical Documentation
- PTSD and other trauma specialist
Experience
Mental Health Clinician
Logan, Utah
Contracted with Cache County Attorney's office/ Jan 2019 to Current
- Provided in-depth counseling for clients with history of trauma, emotional or behavioral issues and created plans for coping.
- Conducted outreach, advocacy and rehabilitative services for regular cases and crisis intervention.
- Provided a wide variety of individual, group and familial counseling interventions strategies utilizing TF-CBT and trauma based methodologies to assist patients.
Mental Health Clinician
Logan, Utah
Bear River Mental Health/ Aug 2004 to Jan 2011
- Provided counseling for relapse prevention, social issues and mental health problems.
- Developed appropriate policies for identification of medically-related social and emotional needs of clients.
- Recorded comprehensive patient histories and coordinated treatment plans with multi- disciplinary team members.
- Worked primarily with foster children and children with disrupted home placements.
- Received year long training in attachment therapies and treatments.
Mental Health Clinician Intern
Logan, Utah
Bear River Mental Health/ Jan 2002 to Jul 2004
- Taught clients anger management techniques, relaxation skills, impulse control, social skills, emotional coping skills and functional living skills.
- Provided counseling for relapse prevention, social issues and mental health problems.
- Worked with parents and teachers to implement consistent behavior therapy techniques at home and school.
- Gathered information from families and social services agencies to inform development of treatment plans.
Social Services Case Manager
Logan , Utah
Bear River Mental Health/ Aug 1997 to Jan 2002
- Performed ongoing monitoring of care plans to evaluate effectiveness, documenting interventions and goal achievements and suggesting changes accordingly.
- Facilitated supportive services and counseling for family members to address special concerns and ease transition during home visits.
- Conducted psychosocial assessments to identify individual needs and specific social services necessary to address identified objectives and goals.
- Promoted integration of services for clients, including behavioral health care and long term services to enhance continuity of care.
Education and Training
Master of Arts: Mental Health Counseling University Of Phoenix Jun 2002
Salt Lake City, UT
Bachelor of Science: Social Work Utah State University Jun 1997 Logan, Utah