Amanda Neves Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Psychotherapy with a focus on how a person’s attachment history can impact their present selves, and leaning on the nervous system’s capacity for change to foster personal growth and greater connection to self and others.- Offering clinical supervision and consultation to fellow mental health professionals- Offering corporate speaking on mental health and wellness

Toronto, Canada Area

Provide instruction on the areas of mental health, addictions, counselling, social justice and advocacy.

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Woodbridge

Toronto, Canada Area

- Provide in home and in office brief strengths based individual and family therapy for Keeping Families Together and Community Counselling programs. - Appropriate and integrated use of cognitive-behavioural, narrative, mindfulness, and solution-focused approaches.- Family work includes conflict resolution, behaviour modification, psycho-education, and safety planning, through a structural family therapy modality.- Create holistic assessments and reports.- Responsible for timely and effective service coordination on behalf of and with clients.- Contribute as an active member of the clinical team and greater agency.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

- Provide assessment, and treatment services to children and their families/caregivers, individually and in groups within specified deadlines.- Employ a variety of systemic and evidenced informed treatment approaches utilizing specific strategies to enhance parent/family and child/youth interactions and functioning at home, in school and in the community.- Develop, implement and evaluate treatment plans according to individual client and family/caregiver needs, goals and strengths.- Participate as an active member of a multidisciplinary team.- Provide case management services to ensure coordination and delivery of services that meet changing needs of clients and families.- Provide services to clients and families in the most normative or natural environment which includes in-home and community based supports.- Facilitate child and family team group process to ensure it is collaborative and focused on the strengths, priorities and treatment goals of the child and family.- Review progress of child and family team in accomplishing tasks and problem solve any potential barriers that may arise.- Provide case consultation to service providers as required.- Collaborate with professionals and community resources to ensure effective service delivery.- Maintain comprehensive case records and data for all clients.- Participate in program development and program evaluation.

95 Wellesley St. East

- Provided brief anti-oppressive and trauma-informed individual and family therapy for youth ages 13-18 coping with depression, anxiety, PTSD, self-harm, suicidal ideation, substance use, and family conflict. - Appropriate and integrated use of CBT, narrative, mindfulness, and solution-focused approaches.- Family work included conflict resolution, behaviour modification, psychoeducation, and safety planning, through a structural family therapy modality. - Conducted holistic assessments and reports. - Responsible for timely and effective service coordination on behalf of and with clients.- Participated in research and program evaluation of the counseling program.- Worked as part of a residential treatment team to plan effectively for young women living in a group home.- Experience in client file audits and the accreditation process.- Contributed as an active member of the clinical team and greater agency.

927 Clark Avenue West, Thornhill

- Community engagement initiative through the New Horizons for Seniors Program, to promote volunteerism among seniors and adults with developmental disabilities (funded by the Government of Canada).- Provide support to the Project Coordinator, Brenda Elias, PhD., and the Project Advisory Committee to ensure the smooth and efficient functioning of the project.- Create and implement a work plan for the project and all communications materials. - Coordinate project volunteers and community organizations with regard to recruitment, training and support planning for intergenerational interviews as required for Reena tenants and seniors in the community.

927 Clark Avenue West, Thornhill

- Plan and facilitate two gender-based groups surrounding healthy relationships and sexuality, lasting 8 weeks, for program participants with a dual diagnosis.- Participate in client intake involving family and individual interaction. - Contact and interview predetermined clients to assist in the Reena community research project, with a focus on the subjective experience of transitioning into a new living environment.- Take part in supervisor and staff meetings, learning about Reena policies, procedures, and working as part of a team.

207 Humber College Blvd., Toronto

Research Assistant to A. Muise, Ph.D., University of Guelph-Humber• Relationships and intimate decision making

207 Humber College Blvd., Toronto

Research Assistant to D. Danto, Ph.D., University of Guelph-Humber• Qualitative analysis on the strengths of the Aboriginal community of Peawanuck, Ontario

207 Humber College Blvd., Toronto

• Aid in the transition of new students from high school to university• Focus on student engagement and ensuring student resources are known and utilized

207 Humber College Blvd., Toronto

Research Assistant to A. Muise, Ph.D., University of Guelph-Humber• Jealousy in relationships and partner monitoring on Facebook

Master’S Degree, Social Work

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Psychology

Activities and Societies: Guelph-Humber Psych Society Secretary (2012-2013)