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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Provide oversight to Lilyfield’s counseling program and clinical services at both Edmond and EmpowerOKC locations, with a focus on Trust Based Relational Intervention and children who have experienced complex trauma.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Provide oversight and management of the Oklahoma City foster care program, which provides trauma-informed foster care placement and support services for children in OKDHS custody.

Supervise and instruct students completing their graduate level field practicum.

Piedmont, Ok

*Supervise clinical staff and coordinate therapeutic services at a multi-level residential group home*Oversee and maintain all clinical records to be in compliance with OKDHS licensing and contract requirements*Coordinate training and carry out programs to implement more trauma-informed models of care at both the clinical and direct care levels*Coordinate with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services to implement agency-wide changes and programming *Serve as lead implementation coordinator of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) as a part of the Oklahoma TBRI® Collaborative for Children*Trained as a TBRI® Practitioner*Trained in Integrative Treatment for Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A)

Coordinate, plan, and provide trauma-informed services and mental health interventions in a long-term, home-like setting for boys in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.

Provide home- and school-based behavioral and mental health interventions for at-risk children and families.

Case managed severely injured veterans, worked with multidisciplinary treatment team, conducted orientation and intakes for new veterans, conducted psychosocial assessments, and co-led psychoeducational groups.

Coordinated a study examining the effects of deployment on children of deployed military personnel under Betty Pfefferbaum, M.D, J.D.

Co-led groups, provided interventions to individual students, co-led parent-teacher conferences, helped implement a school-wide peer mediation program, and worked with students in the alternative school program

Coordinated a study regarding Continuation Phase Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth with MDD under Graham Emslie, M.D., and Betsy Kennard, Psy.D.

Msw, Social Work

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Resident Advisor, Alpha Phi Omega, Psi Chi, Trinity Multicultural Network, "This is My Story" Producer Graduated.