Allie Masterson Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Provide individual therapy to up to 8 adults and adolescents who experience anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD, and life transitions or challenges.
• Integrate various evidence-based models, DBT, ACT, CBT, MI, and somatic approaches to address the client’s whole health, including mental, emotional, spiritual, and other areas of well-being
• Engage with parents, guardians, or community providers regarding treatment goals as needed

San Diego, California, United States

• Facilitated psychoeducation and process groups three days per week in the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for up to 10 Transitional Age Youth (TAY) and provide individual sessions to clients, as needed
• Developed and maintained group therapy content utilizing evidence-based practices, mindfulness techniques, and adaptive coping skills
• Performed psychosocial assessments to record client history and identify preliminary treatment issues, collaboratively developing treatment plan goals and objectives with clients
• Coordinated client discharges and connect clients to appropriate community resources
• Maintained clinical documentation and other relevant reporting for operational purposes

• Completed the 20-hour foundational training in Trauma Sensitive Yoga with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at JRI

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Offers psychoeducation, advocacy, brief intervention, and light case management to individuals living with a mental health condition or to those assisting them to establish individualized next steps for care using a.
• Co-facilitates Peer as well as Family mental health support groups
• Demonstrates sensitivity and empathy to a diverse population regarding human service issues, including but not limited to mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, legal aid, housing, and food insecurity
• Understands community resources and provides personalized referrals to callers based on their circumstances to enhance knowledge of available supports and reduce the barriers to accessing care
• Identifies previous callers and provides appropriate action items based on their past call history and profile and current presenting problems
• Utilizes interventions for crisis and de-escalation skills with callers such as establishing trust and rapport, active listening, validation, practicing grounding techniques and internal coping strategies, and.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Fielded mental health training requests through email, phone, and video to converse with community partners to learn about their organization's internal culture and mental health needs to identify and customize.
• Provided training overviews and answer inquiries for NAMI Chicago trainings on: Mental Health Awareness, Self-Care, Compassion Fatigue, and Crisis Intervention & De-escalation Techniques
• Scheduled trainings, supported grant management, and tracked data for the Training Department using strong organizational skills in a fast-paced environment
• Worked cross-departmentally within NAMI Chicago teams to develop and cultivate external relationships with training contacts to further partnerships and donations

San Diego, California, United States

• Provide direct, short-term, trauma-based crisis intervention therapy services to a weekly caseload of approximately 8 clients who experienced sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence, in person and virtually on.
• Complete client biopsychosocial assessments and Impact of Events Scale to evaluate self-reported client symptoms
• Collaborate in developing treatment plans with clients and provide individual therapy
• Facilitate weekly psychoeducational, trauma-informed, and skills-based support group
• Document all client interactions in Efforts to Outcomes (ETO), case management software
• Complete client phone screenings and pre-intake assessments

Greater Chicago Area

• Supports individuals in crisis through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning lower the risk of harm and intervene in specific manners
• Builds safety plans and connect texters to external resources to empower texters to take the next steps in receiving treatment and managing symptoms

San Diego, California, United States

• Provides intensive, community-based case management services to adults with severe mental illness and co-occurring disorders who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
• Assesses and evaluates the bio-psychosocial needs of each client by using a strengths-based approach, and provides behavioral health services to increase client’s awareness of symptoms and reduce high-risk or unwanted.
• Maintains ongoing communication with an interdisciplinary team to discuss treatment plans for client management of symptoms and daily functioning
• Collaborates with local law enforcement & PERT team for crisis intervention and risk management, while advocating for the clients on their behalf
• Documents all client assessments, consultations, and interventions in client database system, Cerner, while maintaining strict confidentiality to provide continuity of care for clients

Greater Chicago Area

• Trained, coached and supported new hires during Upwork's month-long onboarding program with 53 individuals in 2018 and 51 in 2019
• Developed and implemented a 4-week Mentor Program and a 3-month Promotion Program at Upwork to engage employees in actionable steps to reach their career goals
• Communicated with internal divisions and leadership teams to increase cross-departmental collaboration and to provide feedback
• Executed training logistics (office tours, event planning, calendar invites, catering, room blocking)

Greater Chicago Area

• Prospected, called and qualified 100+ calls cold leads per day to identify Enterprise opportunities
• Ran 40 qualifying meetings a month for both mid-size and enterprise organizations
• Developed, piloted and implemented sales strategies with cross-functional partners for new target customers including phone outreach and email campaigns

Sydney, Australia

• Worked remotely for DataStax while living in Sydney, Australia

San Mateo, California

• Coordinated support for Cassandra, an open source distributed database management system
• Identified 2,000+ companies using Cassandra through LinkedIn Boolean, Twitter, Meetup.com, and Google searches and organized the information in an Excel spreadsheet
• Researched and collected data of over 500 companies utilizing the Cassandra software to build a user database
• Coordinated and scheduled more than 60 interviews for DataStax management with members of the global Cassandra community for success stories on PlanetCassandra.org
• Built relationships with over 100 members of the Cassandra community for internal research to improve the software database
• Syndicated Cassandra-related content found across the Web with PlanetCasandra.org

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Worked with a team of four to strategically plan AFFEC’s first annual Hero For A Day Event, a free event for foster children, that had 110 attendees
• Built a targeted media list to help AFFEC receive donations and to cover the Hero for a Day event
• Designed AFFEC event flier given to donors and foster families

University Of Oregon

• Created and managed events
• Developed a public relations campaign
• Provided fundraising ideas

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Direct Practice

Bachelor Of Arts In Journalism, Public Relations Major

Activities and Societies: Chi Omega