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Offering evidence based individual and group therapy to adults and adolescents. Specialization in DBT, CBT, and trauma-focused therapies including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Pronged Exposure (PE), as well as DBT with PE. Offering consultation and supervision in DBT for clinicians and clinicians in training.

Psychologist for Family Court Mental Health Services in Manhattan clinic. Provides court-ordered forensic evaluations of adults, adolescents, and children for a variety of family court and juvenile delinquency cases. Currently supervised under licensed psychologist, pending completion of license requirements.

Major rotations (6 months each): acute inpatient psychiatric unit; PTSD residential program Minor rotations: -Evidence-based practice individual and group psychotherapy (outpatient) -AssessmentKey responsibilities:-Integrated psychological assessments with inpatients and outpatients: projective, personality, intelligence testing, neuropsychological measures-Psycho-diagnostic evaluations upon admission to inpatient unit-Suicide risk assessments -Acceptance Commitment Therapy (individual, group, outpatient, inpatient)-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (individual caseload, consultation team member)-Social Skills Training for Schizophrenia -Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Cognitive Processing TherapyAdditional responsibilities:-Development of group psychotherapy protocol for inpatient psychiatric unit-Development of self-help and orientation materials for newly admitted inpatients-Peer supervision-Co-leader for didactic seminar on psychological case conceptualization for medical students

Concentrating in forensic applications of clinical psychology.Coursework completed for PhD in Clinical Psychology and forensic concentration. Currently in stages of dissertation completion and pre-doctoral internship.

Taught senior capstone course Psychology and Human Values

Online and in-classroom undergraduate courses taught in Personality, Introduction to Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

Conference planning committee member for the 13th Annual Yale NEA-BPD Conference: Prevention and Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder (May 2017).Project coordinator for a variety of projects with the Y.I.E.L.D Program: Yale Instruction/Investigation/Intervention in Emotional Lability and Dysregulation (YIELD)

Undergraduate courses taught in Introduction to Psychology, Personality

Training clinician at intensive outpatient dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program, substance abuse track.Conducted neuropsychological and psycho-diagnostic evaluations for adolescent and adult psychiatric inpatients. Prepared integrative reports that included results from multiple measures, including projective tests, structured clinical interviews, suicide and violence risk assessments, and cognitive testing.

Instructor for undergraduate courses in psychology, including:-senior capstone course, Psychology and Human Values-Personality-Foundations in Psychology

Taught undergraduate course, Personality

Lab instructor for undergraduate course Statistics.

Forensic inpatient services

Conducted malingering evaluations with forensic psychiatric inpatients, integrating measures of cognitive malingering and feigned/exaggerated psychopathology.Conducted risk assessments utilizing the HCR-20 and START, as well as measures of suicidality and institutional misconduct.Received on-going training in malingering and violence risk assessment.Leader for weekly group therapy on psychoeducation.

Taught a lab for graduate course Personality Assessment.Content covered administration, scoring, and interpretation of MMPI-2-RF, Rorschach, as well as other diagnostic instruments.

Taught lab for graduate course Introduction to Neuroscience.

Assisted with data collection and data entry for a controlled, randomized clinical treatment study.Managed maintenance of database.

Received on-going training, supervision in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) from Dr. Michele Galietta, with applications to outpatient forensic adult population

Coordinated with court-based referral sources in Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan to arrange intake appointments for criminal defendants. Observed intake evaluations; received training in conducting initial assessments in outpatient treatment program.

Conducted weekly individual therapy sessions and intake evaluations at college campus-based clinic.

Taught lab for undergraduate course Foundations in Psychology.

Primary case manager for felony mental health diversion cases, under the supervision of the Clinical Director, Dr. Virginia Barber-Rioja, and consulting psychiatrist, Dr. Merrill Rotter.

Assisted with research study by conducting semi-structured mental health assessments with elementary school students in their homes, throughout the five boroughs.

Assisted with an empirical research study that investigated the efficacy of hypnosis treatment for patients suffering Irritable Bowl Syndrome.