- While at Alive Austin, I saw private practice clients at the therapy group and I worked on a fee for service basis. I worked with adolescents and adults providing therapy to address issues related to stress management, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues and other troubling life transitions. I used my knowledge of counseling theory and differential diagnosis to work collaboratively with my clients to create a treatment plan to instill growth, confidence, therapeutic change and progress toward goals.

- While at CLE, I worked with Asperger’s, Autism spectrum clients as well as clients with a variety of other learning disabilities. I maintained a weekly client load and worked with my students to provide individual support for clients to learn social skills, stress management skills, conflict resolution strategies, and independent living skills. I co-facilitated an all boys group work with supervisor Dr. Christopher Smith Ph.D where we focused on interpersonal skills, nonverbal communication (ie. reading facial expressions) and social skills training. I also, created and co-facilitated an all girls group focusing on self-esteem building and relationship issues. I displayed use of behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques as well as applied behavioral analysis and cognitive adaptive training for clients. I worked hard to structure each session for clients individual needs and facilitate in client change and independent growth through use of structure activities.

- While at BrainHealth my focus was assisting in preliminary research for the Gulf War research project t with Dr. Melanie Biggs, Ph.D and Dr. John Hart, M.D. I prepared and helped to administer clinician and self-report psychological assessment packages for all subjects being considered for the project. I spent much time observing and participating in psychological clinical assessments of subjects for the project: looking for signs of Gulf War Syndrome, as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My responsibilities also included all date collection, scoring of assessments and data entry for the final project write up.