Eduardo C. Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California

Largo, MD

• Providing community-based treatment for youth and families with antisocial traits (i.e. verbal and physical aggression, truancy, severe drug use, etc.)
• Providing direct clinical treatment using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methods to a caseload of six families at a time
• Leading formal and informal family therapy sessions, individual therapy, and couples therapy
• Conducting all referrals for Spanish-speaking families, as the only Spanish-speaking MST therapist in the practice
• Meeting with families three times a week for an average of three to five months
• Participating in MST training, weekly supervision, and weekly consultation

Rockville, MD

• Provided crisis management and counseling services to clients suffering from acute psychiatric crisis
• Conducted individual, family, and peer counseling based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), SFBT and CBT
• Adhered to program standards throughout 24-hour shifts, two to three times a week
• Worked with clients, their families, and outside providers in writing individualized treatment plans and solution-focused discharge plans
• Conducted assessments of clients’ mental health status, all of whom were diagnosed with severe mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, depression, paranoid.
• Participated in weekly case consultation with a licensed psychiatrist

Arlington, VA

• Provided direct therapeutic counseling services to clients, employing Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) techniques
• Client caseload included inmates of all security levels: those arrested for murder, DWI, embezzlement, or public indecency due to mental health issues
• Evaluated and provided clinical diagnoses and provided treatment plans for recently arrested inmates
• Facilitated group counseling for the Mental Health Unit as well as the General Population
• Served an ongoing caseload of 10 clients and assessed dozens of other inmates on a daily basis as they were referred to the mental health team for one-time crisis intervention or skills development
• Guided clients in learning skills and strategies for dealing with mental health issues

Silver Spring, MD

• Managed a caseload of 18 clients suffering from co-occurring serious disorders
• Created fluid and changing treatment plans for each client on a bi-weekly basis
• Assisted and instructed clients in residential/outpatient living skills
• Provided counseling, behavior management, and crisis intervention as well as medication monitoring to insure compliance with medical instructions given by clients’ therapists and psychiatrists
• Assessed clients’ needs, developed goals and linked them with community resources
• Coordinated quarterly provider meetings with clients’ therapists and psychiatrists

Washington, D.C.

• Attended group counseling and confidentiality training and received monthly supervisions and feedback
• Facilitated group discussions with a group of eight men, ages 30 to 50, who were considering coming out or had just recently come out
• Through supervision, assessed and referred specific clients who could benefit from individual therapy
• Displayed an awareness of and adherence to the need for confidentiality of all information shared during group sessions

Washington, D.C.

• Engaged in and facilitated group discussions in topics ranging from low self-esteem and sexual abuse to domestic and gang violence with 12 at-risk multicultural children, ages eight to ten
• Provided mental and emotional support to the children throughout the group discussions
• Administered behavioral assessments of the children and reported abnormal behavior to the lead therapist
• Evaluated the weekly progress of each child with the lead therapist
• Displayed an awareness of and adherence to the need for confidentiality of all information regarding the children and their families among clients and staff
• Team received first place 2010 National Council of La Raza’s Family Strengthening Award for providing high-quality services to the Latino community

Baltimore, MD

• Transcribed and coded interviews for qualitative research that examined the ways in which family therapy educators understand and proactively use their ethnic, class, and heterosexual privilege in master’s and doctoral.
• Formulated and summarized the common themes that prevail throughout the interviews
• Research was presented at the 2011 Pedagogy of Privilege Conference at the University of Denver

M.S., Clinical Counseling

Activities and Societies: Student & Alumni Counseling Association - Vice President. Commencement Speaker at 2013 May Graduation.

B.A., International Relations

Activities and Societies: Stony Point Volunteer Fire Company (Volunteer Firefighter), Migrant Aid Tutoring (English/Spanish Tutor), Polo.