Lynn Bañez Email & Phone Number

Williamsburg, Va, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Provide remote Individual, couples, family, and group therapy throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Additional services provided: Consultation in variety of settings, and particularly Court involved cases, including testifying as an Expert witness; Clinical Supervision, Professional Training, and Mental Health Advocacy.

Provide telementalhealth counseling for individuals, groups, family, and couple's counseling (HIPAA secured video). Serving clients from ages 10 to 70. Trauma- Informed and aware office environment. Individualized, person-centered therapy and treatment plans that are developed with client's input and feedback including client's cultural, gender, ethnic, sexual identity, socio-economic, religious, or spiritual background. Use evidence based treatment modalities such as but not limited to: Neuroscoence informed and incorporated intoTI-CBT/TF-CBT, IFS, MI, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Structural and Family Systems, etc. Specializing in working with clients with PTSD, Traumatic Grief & Loss, Adjustment Disorder, Mood Disorders (depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorders), Personality Disorders (Borderline Disorder, Histrionic Disorder), addiction, and addiction with co-occuring disorders, chronic pain, chronic physical illness, Attachment Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Autism, and Sensory Integration Disorder. Specializatiom in serving LGBTQ community and individuals. Particularly assisting individuals develop, integrate, and healthy sexual identity and gender identity including coming out to self, coming out to others, developing and maintaining healthy long- term relationships, and helping transgender individuals successfully progress through transitioning process. Provide therapy and support groups. Topics, times, and locations change based on need. Check website for current group offerings. Offer professional training, education on numerous subjects. Provide training and education to mental health consumers. Provide consultation for agencies, organizations, schools, etc. Please email me or view website for more detailed list of training, presentation topics.

The Clinical Director is responsible for identifying counseling needs of clients, making appropriate referrals to staff, and overseeing appropriate counseling responses. The overall quality of S.A. and mental health outpatient clinical treatment available to the client population and/or family members served by the agency is dependent on the work of the incumbent.Will oversee all programmatic components for the clinical program, including supervision and oversight of relationships with local, regional, and national CACREP accredited masters programs.The work of the position includes agency representation at various meetings relating to substance abuse and mental health issues and concerns with some public speaking.The Clinical Director ensures compliance of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Outpatient Services with state licensure (DBHDS) requirements. The incumbent is responsible for clinical supervision, outpatient program coordination, personnel evaluation, interagency collaboration, and direct services.Train staff on Community Reinforcement Approach and Motivational Interviewing modalities.Makes professional and educational presentations to agency, staff and the public.Performs related duties and responsibilities as required.

Provide individual, group and family therapy to adolescents in locked, residential treatment program using trauma informed CBT and DBT therapy and other evidence based treatment modalities. Work with adolescents with significant trauma histories i.e., sexual, physical, emotional abuse; traumatic grief/ loss; bipolar disorders; DMDD, reactive attachment; DID; borderline and histrionic traits; and with adolescents who co- present with drug addiction/ abuse; autism and sensory issues. Additionally provide clinical supervision to therapists working towards their LPC in Virginia. Complete biopsychsocial assessment, diagnostic summaries; daily progress notes and monthly treatment team reports. Participate in interdisciplinary treatment teams. Coordinate services with community agencies. Serve as "Safety Coach" helping maintain safe environment for residents and staff. Testify in court when required i.e., custody hearings, civil hearings and criminal hearings.Knowledge and use of electronic records; assist in correcting coding problems re: billing charges, diagnostic coding errors. Make recommendations to resolve or improve documentation such treatment protocols, TLOAs.Provide training for other therapists on relevant topics. Develop and provide education and skills for family members i.e., effective communication skills; DBT skills; CBT skills; education on how adolescent's diagnoses, especially how autism and sensory issues impact how adolescent perceives and interacts in his/ her world.

Texas, Us

Provided Solution Focused, Problem Solving and support to children in military families in elementary on military base. During summer provided same for school age youth, teens, and their families at on base facilities that provided summer programming. Facilitated deployment support groups, lunchbunch groups, assisted in classrooms or wherever the students are. Kept appropriate records, developed working relationships with teachers, administrators, parents, and base military chain of command. Attended after school events to further build relationships with parents, teachers, administrators, and base command. Knowledge of chain of command, recognizing rank based on uniforms and attached insignias.

Specializes in providing counseling and support to families, spouses/life partners (of any sexual identity), family members, friends and care-givers of individuals struggling to live with addiction, chronic pain and other co-existing or underlying mental health issues . Primary focus is providing counseling and support to family members, loved-ones and others whose lives have been negaitively impacted by a loved one with an addiction or chronic pain. Services also availabled to persons struggling with addiction or chronic pain. Couple, family, relationship, group and individual counseling and support services offered. Therapy and support conducted at office location, client homes, by phone or online. Additionally the Bañez Therapy Group offers advocacy and training for mental health consumers and professionals. For more information, please visit the website: www.baneztherapygroup.com

Program Coordinator of Mental Health Counseling and Marriage and Family programs. As Program Coordinator, ensure programs meet New York State licensing requirements, New York State Dept. of Education and consistent with current Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accreditation standards and standards according to the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). Solicit, interview and recommend persons for adjunct teaching positions or as clinical supervisors as needed. Develop. implement program curricula, develop new course syllabi, provide clinical supervision to students during their clinical sequence; supervise CPT Dept’s Clinical Supervisors who provide1-1 supervision to students per accreditation standards. Proctor comp exams, create policies, procedures & grading criteria regarding comprehensive exam. Serve as Dept Liaison to CACREP, COAMFTE and National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). Collaborate with LIU’s Legal Dept. re: site placement contracts. Contact prospective field placements, develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationship with sites, establish and foster relationships with site supervisors to best serve needs of site and provide WGC student’s with diverse placement opportunities. Conduct site visits to evaluate appropriateness of placement. Est. policies and procedures for clinical training according to New York State licensing requirements, accreditation standards and professional code of ethics. Actively recruit students, provide marketing and PR staff with ideas and copy for marketing campaigns, creating program brochures and website, secure public speaking opportunities both on/off campus promoting the new MHC & MFT programs at WGC and New York State's new license req. for practitioners. Conduct admission interviews, admit qualified students, report admissions & retention data. Identify & resolve issues impacting retention goals set by admin.

Fairfield, Ct, Us

Designed courses and taught courses to graduate students in Counseling Program. Served as Clinical Director, Program Coordinator for Mental Health Counseling, served on key university Committees, oversaw recruitment, admissions, and retention of graduate students. Served as Acting Dept Chair for one year and lead search committee for 2 new colleagues. Provided numerous peer-reviewed presentations, presentations, training, and consultation in community, most frequently on topic or diversity competency.