Audrey Patterson Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Counseling a variety of clients with concerns such as depression, anxiety, career, neurodivergence, gender and racial identity. I use modalities such as Gestalt, internal family systems, cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused and acceptance and commitment therapy to move into deeper patterns of thought and behavior. In this way, clients gain greater integration and understanding. This helps clients move closer to their inherent gifts, resources, and greatness to make changes and live closer to their ideals in the present.

As a meditation mentor, I help clients use and strengthen their Heart Rhythm Meditation practices to tune into their bodies and emotions, self-regulate, heal emotional wounds, work toward life goals, and realize their innate wisdom and potential. I utilize skills honed through my meditation practice to engage in active, compassionate listening for areas of client growth and strength, I hold a constant vision of their inherent greatness, and I assign specific meditation practices that support clients in their process and growth.

Online, I teach a small group of students the basics of Heart Rhythm Meditation. I loosely plan topics and meditations that introduce students to specific, important practices, and throughout the progression of the lessons, I also tailor my meditations to the group’s expressed processes, and provide techniques students can use not only in meditation, but also throughout the day. Addressing students’ questions or concerns is something I particularly enjoy.

Boulder, Co

In this role, I provide supportive presence and light housekeeping to a client in the community. I use skills of mindful listening, patience, and therapeutic dialogue to engage with the client and help her integrate more into her community as she navigates a difficult life transition. I enjoy being part of a team that holds their elder clients with reverence and understanding, regardless of what these clients may be facing, mentally and physically, in their lives.

Homewood, Illinois, United States

I filled in for a temporary administrative role while home from grad school for the summer. At St. Andrew, I welcomed guests and partitioners and performed a variety of office tasks, such as updating announcements and preparing weekly bulletins. I also helped implement an electronic church attendance filing system that could be easily referenced and updated.

Illinois, United States

As a live-in home help worker, I remained attentive and available to the client’s needs. In addition to meal preparation and cleaning, I also helped the client safely prepare for appointments and outside engagements, drove the client when necessary, and ran errands. I also served as a companion. This work allowed the client to continue to live in the home, away from an assisted living facility that would have been more isolating during COVID.

Frankfort, Illinois, United States

Meeting with patients in a nursing home setting during their final days is an experience I am grateful to have had. In my role as a Friendly Visitor Volunteer, I attentively listened to patients’ stories, read to them, or quietly sat with them when there was nothing to say. Each patient was in a unique place on their journey, and my goal was to meet them wherever they were, tolerant of difficult emotions, with presence and kindness.

Illinois, United States

I assisted a young autistic client, serving as companion. I helped encourage this client as I accompanied them around town, using present awareness to gauge the client’s current emotional state and adapting accordingly. I felt I was constantly learning something new and valuable from this client, and throughout our time working together, improvements in the client’s tolerance and social skills were noted.

Homewood, Illinois, United States

As Scheduling Coordinator, I consistently communicated with office staff and doctors to create a smoother scheduling workflow in the doctors’ schedules throughout the practice. To do this, I managed the schedules and preferences of multiple doctors in various offices throughout the South Suburban Chicago area by monitoring their schedules for potential conflicts or schedule changes. This work involved much attention to detail as well as a big-picture view of the doctors’ monthly and yearly schedule patterns, and how all of this fit together in the functioning of the practice as a whole.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I attended meetings for the Chicago Area HIV Integrated Services Council (CAHISC), in order to record and transcribe meeting minutes for their use. Transcribing these minutes required focus, detail, and accuracy, and the completed minutes allowed them to receive a record of meeting objectives and tasks.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

This research project tested the efficacy of online health surveys. After introducing myself, I led several patients a day through the online health survey, explained its purpose, and assisted them with computer operations when necessary.

Behavioral Sciences Building

During an internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I entered research participant screening and research data into SPSS, organized files to ensure organization and confidentiality, and occasionally helped set up and clean participants’ EEG equipment.

Admissions Office

In addition to entering and editing prospective student database information, I prepared prospective student campus visit schedules. I coordinated with professors and staff to create schedules that suited students’ interests and goals, answered questions about the visits, and accompanied students and their families across campus to various classes and meetings. I consistently kept admissions officers, professors, and students informed of any schedule changes and collaborated with various parties to reconcile potential discrepancies. My efficient work there helped ease my supervisor’s workload.

Department Of Sociology And Anthropology

As I engaged in the study of adulthood, I interviewed dozens of respondents on Chicago’s Loop train platforms, coded interview and media content, and entered summaries into the database. Much of this work required self-resourcing prior to interviewing and maintaining an openness to respondents’ reactions. Coding, searching for media content, and analyzing and entering data involved much focus and detail that I found engaging.

Master Of Liberal Studies Office

As a receptionist, I was available to offer computer assistance to the professors in the office and to perform administrative tasks, such as mailing and organizing documents and fielding prospective Master’s student questions over the phone.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Clinical Mental Health - Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Lambda Alpha (Anthropology honor society) Lake Forest College Orchestra Lake Forest Civic Orchestra (North.