•Provide counseling and case management to families experiencing pediatric cancer.•Collaborate with the medical team and an interdisciplinary psychosocial team to ensure families have needed support throughout their illness journey.•Led the creation of a Relationship Health Toolkit and Relationship Workshop for caregivers of pediatric cancer patients.•Led the launch of a caregiver distress screening program for caregivers of pediatric brain tumor patients.•Led the creation and launch of St. Jude's first bereavement newsletter, Connecting Through Grief.

•Co-lead training sessions that equip counselors to provide a brief intervention for couples called the Relationship Checkup.•Trained hundreds of Military Family Life Counselors, who are contracted through the U.S. Department of Defense, so that they can deliver Relationship Checkups to active duty service members.•Provide additional trainings to a civilian audience.

Selected course competencies for SW 314 Human Behavior in the Social Environment: •Describe human behavior in systems of different sizes, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.•Describe the applicability of biological, psychological, and social science perspectives of human behavior to the practice of social work.•Explain the roles of neurophysiology, adaptive and maladaptive environments, and experiences, including the effects of trauma and chronic stress, on brain development and the role of genetics and epigenesis in development during the sensitive period of the first three years of life and across the life span.•Describe the impact of homophobia, racism, sexism, sizeism, and other forms of oppression on individual development, family systems, groups, organizations, communities, and professional social work practice.

Healing Hearts Counseling

• Providing direct clinical services including individual therapy, couples therapy, same day brief screening, case management, and crisis intervention.• Developing and implementing a comprehensive suicide prevention program for UT as Campus Lead for UT's implementation of JED Campus.• Providing outreach presentations (e.g., QPR suicide prevention training) to the university community.

•Evaluated students face-to-face as part of the Distressed Student Protocol, determining both clinical/non-clinical status and needs.•Managed acute crisis situations including psychosis, mania, and sexual assault victimization through use of counseling and case management skills.•Designed individual action plans for distressed students among resource units and agencies as appropriate.•Provided first clinical point of contact for post-hospitalization follow-up•Coordinated and answer 974-HELP, a hotline used to report concerns about students, usually related to mental health or sexual assault.•Co-lead weekly Case Management Team meeting with leaders of housing, conduct, and various other campus groups.

Selected course competencies for SW 314 Human Behavior in the Social Environment: •Describe human behavior in systems of different sizes, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.•Describe the applicability of biological, psychological, and social science perspectives of human behavior to the practice of social work.•Explain the roles of neurophysiology, adaptive and maladaptive environments, and experiences, including the effects of trauma and chronic stress, on brain development and the role of genetics and epigenesis in development during the sensitive period of the first three years of life and across the life span.•Describe the impact of homophobia, racism, sexism, sizeism, and other forms of oppression on individual development, family systems, groups, organizations, communities, and professional social work practice

• Complete face-to-face crisis assessments with clients in a variety of settings, including hospitals, outpatient therapy centers, jails, and schools.• Coordinate with other professionals and provide consultation to ensure appropriate referrals for clients in crisis.• Work with multidisciplinary team to manage and execute intake, discharge, and treatment of clients at the Crisis Stabilization Unit, a 16-bed residential facility.• Conduct brief therapeutic interventions at the CSU.

•Provided individual, brief intervention psychotherapy for adults using principles of CBT and MI.•Co-facilitated weekly 1-hour psycho-educational anxiety group.•Conducted diagnostic intake interviews and wrote bio-psycho-social assessments

•Facilitated relationship check-ups, a two-session brief intervention focused on improving relationship health using principles from Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and psycho-education.•Promoted Relationship Rx in the community and in the media, including featured blogs and TV appearances (WBIR).

•Graduate Research Assistant for Minority AIDS Initiative grant.•Taught adolescents risk prevention skills in a psycho-educational group class setting.•Event planning and advertisement for groups.

•Reported on nearly every sport imaginable for the News Sentinel including University of Tennessee sports and high school sports.•Covered the "recreational sports" beat which required me to quickly learn about sports ranging from drag racing to ping pong and create short, engaging feature stories about little-known successful athletes in the Knoxville area.•Regularly covered UT volleyball team for most of two seasons.

•Co-facilitated 3-hour, daily dual-diagnosis IOP therapy group based on CBT, MI, and psycho-education.