Ava Kaufmann Email & Phone Number

United States

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Collaborated with a treatment team to support adolescents and adults through their stay in residential eating disorder treatment, engaging patients through psychoeducational therapy groups, facilitating the treatment plans from dieticians and therapists, providing patients with emotional and practical support, managing crisis situations, modeling appropriate behaviors around food and communication, administering medications and first aid, and handling confidential patient documents.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Worked directly with individuals (clubhouse members) with a wide variety of Axis-I psychiatric diagnoses in a group-home type setting, helping them develop their resumes and search for jobs, learn to use computer programs, facilitated their 12-step meetings, provided individual supportive counseling when needed, and helped members perform daily tasks related to occupational functioning.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Facilitated membership registration and renewal processes, handled and stored payments for membership fees, insured secure storage of all member data, provided up-to-date information regarding programs, activities, events, and new parent orientations to individuals inquiring at member desk or over the phone, assisted Director in new parent orientation sessions, supervised and guided young members in the lobby and throughout the clubhouse, facilitated safe pickups and drop-offs with parents/guardians, and answered all incoming phone calls.

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Ran participants and collected data (saliva samples and test scores/times) for a study concerning stress and memory retrieval, analyzed and interpreted data using SPSS and manual calculations, helped present our findings to the lab, and conducted preliminary research on a variety of cognitive phenomena for several pilot studies.

Silver Spring, Maryland

Proposed innovative mental health movements for a grant opportunity, reorganized mental health-related webinars for continuing education credit-seekers, analyzed data regarding demand for new webinars, collected contacts and reached out to immigrant-focused mental health organizations, and found and contacted a variety of ADAA member experts to conduct new webinars and speak at nation-wide conferences.