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Bakersfield, Ca, Us

Bakersfield, California Area

Conducted daily psychosocial assessments for clients pursuing long-term mental health treatment via County Crisis Services, with accompanying referrals to care, diagnoses and treatment plans. Provided therapeutic interventions such as suicide risk reduction, DSM diagnosis, psychiatric liaisoning, relaxation and mindfulness for acute distress and orientation to the benefits and world of psychotherapy.

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

Served as program director for a NORC program ("naturally occurring retirement community") with JASA, a long established and respected agency serving the aging, in New York. My chief responsibilities included supervising staff and student interns, collaborating with senior resident advisory board members, overseeing program budget, city and state reporting and grant writing, and developing and nurturing partnerships with NORC community providers. I both coached and received my own guidance from senior resident volunteers of the community, who often made home visits or made friendly calls to homebound residents. I provided clinical services to clients with more complex presenting issues requiring intervention or counseling, and coached my social work staff. I started a successful bi-weekly support group that focused on anxiety and difficult emotions related to dementia, memory, and agin, which ended up being a wonderful collaboration with a senior volunteer and retired social worker, who co-facilitated the groups with me.As the director I tried to instill values of compassion and collaboration whenever possible. This often meant keeping my door open to community members who popped in to provide ideas, feedback, criticisms, etc. I loved this work deeply and truly believe the NORC model works in more ways we could even capture with data reports. In 2017 I spearheaded an intergenerational partnership with the local high school, where youth served as digital technology mentors for seniors, and seniors could provide to the kids some insight on their young lives in the process. In 2018 the initiative was added to the high school's official internship programming.

Brooklyn, Ny

Provided individual and family therapy services to youth aged 6-18 utilizing CBT and strengths-based empowerment approaches. Responsibilities included completing individualized treatment plans and goals, including those based on school IEPs and vocational exploration for teens.I mediated family concerns between youth and parents via family therapy sessions, encouraging direct and open communication. For children with impulse control issues in the classroom, I applied play therapy techniques in the sessions in conjunction with caregiver involvement. I assisted a family coping with the recent trauma of a court-involved abuse case due to the abuse and neglect by the mother. Via family therapy and individual therapy, the two children were able to express their concerns and fears to the father, and one of the children was able to overcome incontinence symptoms in his school.

Lower East Side

I worked as program director of "BEST" NORC program ("Baruch Elders Service Team") of Grand Street Settlement, a 100 year-old settlement house agency of New York City. As program director my duties included supervising seven staff members, managing program operations and advocacy efforts, and supervising senior volunteers and the advisory council. My work also included individual and group counseling and led several psychoeducational presentations in both English and Spanish. The NORC seniors were mostly low-income and of Latino and Chinese immigrant backgrounds.

I interned at the child and adolescent outpatient psychiatry department (POSC) of Mount Sinai Beth Israel, providing therapy to children, adolescents, and families. The field placement was based on family systems theory with an emphasis on structural family therapy, providing direct counseling and supportive interventions to clients and their families. I conducted weekly intake assessments, treatment plans, and clinical progress notes. I attended weekly case conferences and family therapy seminars with a multidisciplinary team of psychology, psychiatry and social work students. I was invited to present one of my successful family therapy cases to the Mount Sinai Beth Israel POSC Grand Rounds. As part of my "continuum"​ internship, I organized and led a psychoeducational support group for pregnant teenagers at the women's outpatient unit. The group met once a week for 1.5 hours with the aim to encourage sharing and learning to empower responsible motherhood and parenting.

Brooklyn, Ny

I interned with a collaborative ACT team to assist individuals in their treatment and recovery process with severe mental illness in Brooklyn. I conducted independent home visits and provided a number of services to the patients including psychoeducation, wellness self-management, case management, vocational resources and medication support services. I also developed a women's psychoeducation support group within the agency targeting the presenting issues with the women's mental illness, sharing and exploring coping mechanisms available to the patients. This internship officially came to a close in May 2013. It was a fulfilling and rich educational experience.

Miami Springs, Florida

I provided refugee youth and their families direct services with the objective to gain healthy adjustments to their new U.S. communities, school system, and social cultural norms. My duties included supportive case management, academic liaison assistance, career preparation and acculturation counseling, planning cultural-educational field trips, and both family and individual counseling.

Brickell, Fl

Specialized in one-on-one and group English instruction for beginners, intermediate, and accent reduction courses.

Atlanta, Ga

Provided phone-counseling for questions and concerns regarding reproductive issues and medical services at the clinic; Counseled patients and family members/ patients' partners before and after abortion procedures; Assisted patients coming in for hormone replacement therapy; Facilitated lab tests for patients; Assisted OB-GYN physician during clinical appointmentsAssisted in the development of improved services and outreach to Spanish speaking patients.Cross-trained as intake specialist to provide assistance with medicaid and other insurance issues.

Charleston, Sc

Organized and led group educational kayak tours in Lowcountry salt marsh ecosystem.

Master'S Degree, Clinical Social Work

Master of social work with a generalist approach and clinical foundation.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Anthropology