David Teachout, M.S., M.A. Email & Phone Number

Hot Springs, SD, US

• Provided evidence-based psychotherapy to veterans, individuals, and couples, addressing health care needs by facilitating goal-directed behavior, building communication skills and increasing emotional intelligence.
• Provided supervision for associate-level therapists in building their practices, facilitating lesson plans in teaching skills related to mental health therapy.

Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

• Owned and operated mental health therapy and coaching business.
• Mental Health Therapist working with individuals and couples, utilizing principles of ACT, Gottman, and mindfulness reflection practices.
• Created five in-person and online classes for communication and leadership skills.
• Professional services developer, working with professionals and organizations on defining their Mission, identifying their Values, and growing communication between employees.http://www.lifeweavings.com

Tacoma, Washington, United States

• Worked as subject matter expert (SME) for DHA Connected Health, a healthcare arm of the Department of Defense.
• Helped facilitate the development of ten projects, overseeing a team of four, and involved in managerial-level meetings to identify needs and complete projects in a timely manner.
• Facilitated the creation of a DEI program for ASRC, focused on celebrating cultural differences and encouraging dialogue across those differences.
• Delivered e-learning programming on mental health and medical topics, including live and recorded webinars and short videos, podcasts, and blogs.
• Products:o Cultural Humility in Clinical Careo Principles for Cultural Humility in Dialogueo Digital Health Security and Privacy using COVID Coacho Digital Ethics in Clinical Careo Patient Accessible (Open) Notes.

Seattle, Washington

• Facilitated in-person and remote 3-month programs for veterans and their families to build mental health resiliency skills and create community relationships with fellow veterans.
• Created and implemented a curriculum for an online 12-week program, a live group-intensive involving on-site activities and emotional intelligence development.

Greater Seattle Area

Short contract work including data entry and analysis, office work, furniture building, landscaping, and basic construction. Created working relationships with each client, determining how to meet requests at individual sites.

• Diagnosed and evaluated clients for engagement with mental health services.
• In individual and group sessions, utilized therapeutic skills, including motivational interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
• Created curriculum and facilitated a group class on anger management for adults.

Working through internship for completion of Master's in Counseling Psychology, with finish date of late summer 2016. Individual and group counseling, creation of group curriculum, weekly supervision.

Kent, WA

On-call case manager for live-in facility for adults suffering from chronic mental health problems.

Seattle, WA

I facilitate clients, currently inmates in jail, with receiving social services like housing and medications and mental health treatment during incarceration and upon reentry into society.

Facilitate the growth of relationship connections with residents to help in determining personal needs, encourage growth in resident personal care and mediate emotionally difficult behavior. Also helped with connecting residents to social services for personal and medical care.

Work with children of varying ages to help create social skills and appropriate behaviors when dealing with difficult emotional situations.

Master'S Degree, Counseling Psychology

Master'S Degree, Forensic Psychology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Interdisciplinary Studies