Ashley Gardner, Lpc Email & Phone Number

Charleston, Sc, Us

Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

Providing creative and evidence-based individual and family therapy to children and families in a school setting; Providing telehealth mental health treatment to adults, children, and their families; Coordinating care on a multidisciplinary team; Developing solution-focused and client-centered treatment plans; Providing consultation to other clinicians regarding the effective use of clinical documentation to improve efficiency and patient outcomes; Providing supportive consultation to help clinicians transition to working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic; Community outreach; Developing training programs to support remote and/or socially distanced mental health treatment

Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

Providing immediate crisis intervention services in the clinic, in the community, and via telehealth; Providing routine and emergency mental health services in the clinic and in the community; Developing recommendations for treatment; Collaborating with other treatment professionals to coordinate care; Working with a multidisciplinary treatment team to coordinate and provide effective crisis management; Coordinating with frontline treatment providers to identify opportunities to prevent future crises; Completing suicide and mental status assessments; Creating effective and client-focused safety plans

Summerville, South Carolina, United States

Providing evidence-based mental health care to adults in a community mental health center; Offering case management to clients, to include creating community referrals and referrals for additional services; Collaborating with clients and a multi-disciplinary team to develop client-centered and effective plans of care; Completing mental status examinations and making treatment recommendations as a court-appointed designated examiner

Summerville, South Carolina, United States

Providing individual, group, and family therapy to children in a residential care facility; Completing intake evaluations, discharge summaries, and general casework for child and adolescent clients as well as their families; Coordinating with other mental and medical health care professionals as well as community stakeholders (courts, Continuum of Care, DJJ, and DSS, for example) to coordinate and provide effective treatment; Individual therapy, Group therapy, Family therapy, intake evaluations, discharge evaluations, and general casework for child and adolescent residents.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Working at the Center for Families afforded me great opportunity to work one-on-one with clients and to create complete treatment plans for my clients. I was given the opportunity to learn the in's and out's of both counseling and running a successful private practice.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

I routinely administered baseline evaluations on new admissions. These included the administration of the OQ-40, the SASSI-3, a mental status exam, and assessment for suicidality. Additionally, I assessed for substance abuse using the MADST-D, the CAGE, the SASSI-3, and a structured interview, facilitated mandatory substance abuse education classes for all new prisoners, and co-facilitated 10 week treatment groups for those with appropriate diagnoses. Another portion of my duties was the administration of PTSD assessments and the co-facilitation of CBT treatment groups.

Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

Creating databases to record and report man-hours and cost expenditures for projects and routine maintenance within the Parks Department; trained current staff to use and make necessary modifications to the databases; Databases created are still in use 10 years later

Master Of Arts, Counseling- Mental Health

B.A., Political Science, Corporate Communication, And Spanish (Minor)