A private practice for NYC Professionals. Offering both individual and group psychotherapy to LGBTQ individuals, queer people of color, racial and ethnic minorities, and individuals with history of trauma. www.drliradelarosa.com

Clinical Supervisor for the West Village Pod.

Provide short-term psychotherapy to Columbia university undergraduate and graduate students.

• Responsible for conducting comprehensive intake evaluations of adult and child/adolescent patients, psychological assessments, and providing crisis interventions across inpatient and outpatient settings. Familiar with conducting crisis assessments to patient’s with severe and persistent mental health concerns and providing appropriate referrals to connect patients to mental health treatment. • Worked closely with multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and nurses and consulted with treatment teams about patient care. Provided treatment recommendations to treatment teams and utilized clinical case conceptualizations and diagnostic impressions using the DSM-V.

- Provide individual psychotherapy in English and Spanish to clients at various stages of change in order to help them address treatment goals towards substance abuse recovery. Utilize motivationalinterviewing to facilitate change talk, provide psychoeducation, and develop treatment plans incollaboration with clients. Additional duties include developing a stage-wise group model ofpsychoeducation, skill-based, and process-oriented groups for clients.• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of substance abuse counselors, creative art therapists,social workers, and psychiatrists in developing treatment plans for clients presenting with a range ofsubstance use disorders and co-occurring mental health diagnoses• Provide psychological consultation services in the CPEP for clients presenting with severe andpersistent mental health disorders. Work alongside a team of psychiatrists, nurses, and social workersto determine if patients will be admitted for observation, discharged, or admitted to inpatient units.• Part of Woodhull's APPIC Clinical Psychology Internship Program and provide clinical supervision to psychologists-in-training. Meet with psychology interns on a weekly basis to provide individual supervision for interns working with adult clients in the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Department (AOPD), Chemical Dependency, and CPEP rotations. Responsible for providing weekly supervision to address clinical concerns, treatment planning, progress notes, case conceptualization, risk assessments, and overall psychology intern’s professional identities as psychologists-in-training.

• Provided individual and family psychotherapy in English and Spanish to ethnically and cultural diverse clients in the Adult Outpatient Department, Child/Adolescent Outpatient Department, Adult Inpatient Department, HIV Clinic, and Mobile Crisis Team. • Responsible for conducting comprehensive intake evaluations of adult and child/adolescent patients, psychological assessments, and providing crisis interventions across inpatient and outpatient settings. Familiar with conducting crisis assessments to patient’s with severe and persistent mental health concerns and providing appropriate referrals to connect patients to mental health treatment. • Worked closely with multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and nurses and consulted with treatment teams about patient care. Provided treatment recommendations to treatment teams and utilized clinical case conceptualizations and diagnostic impressions using the DSM-V. • Responsible for the administration, scoring, and writing of psychological evaluations of child and adult patients in outpatient and inpatient departments including the use of personality, cognitive, academic, and neuropsychological measures. • Participated in treatment team meetings, grand rounds, didactic seminars, department meetings, and cultural context seminars. Conducted staff training on depression and suicide prevention across the lifespan.

Provide long-term and short-term individual psychotherapy (in English and Spanish) to adults with a range of mental health diagnoses while utilizing a humanistic/person-centered approach and drawing from various evidence-based practices, such as CBT, DBT, and Interpersonal Therapy. Consult with interdisciplinary staff of psychologists and social workers in the treatment planning, diagnostic impressions, case conceptualization, management of ethical concerns, and referrals for clients needing psychiatric medication management

Counseling & Clinical Skills• Experience in providing individual cognitive behavior therapy in Spanish and English to survivors of sexual trauma, clients with medical and other social and developmental presenting concerns, and veterans with PTSD and depression. • Knowledgeable in co-facilitating support and psychoeducational groups for male survivors of sexual abuse as well as psychoeducationl groups for Latinos with type 2 diabetes. • Experience working with a multidisciplinary medical team at a community health center to more traditional counseling, mental health non—medical facility. • Experience administering and scoring personality (MMPI-II) and intelligence (WAIS-IV) assessments, as well as report writing that accounts for cultural variables. Cultural Competencies & Training Highlights• Experience in assessing clinical cases using various theoretical orientations. • Experience in working with transgender and LGB veterans in VA medical setting through CBT and other Evidence Based Practices. • Received multicultural training, supervision, and intervention planning when working with diverse populations. Outcome increasing skills in adapting counseling assessment and therapy with sensitivity to cultural identity component of each individual client and attention to client’s multicultural identities. Research Summary/Highlights and Interests• Extensive participation in developing research projects that focused on culturally adapting interventions/treatments for Latinos with depression and type 2 diabetes from planning methodology through data collection and analysis. • Experience in working under a community-based research model in examining the health and well-being of Latinos and other underrepresented individuals.

Worked with Dr. Chavez-Korell's Research for Change team on various research projects related to mental health disparities for Latinos/as, American Indian/Alaska Natives, and Racial/Ethnic Minority College Students.

Worked with Dr. Sapp's research team focused on tailoring hypnosis interventions for Latinos/as with type 2 diabetes. Assisted both Dr. Sapp and Dr. Arndt's research teams to develop a culturally sensitive hypnosis pilot study for smoking cessation with American Indians.

Provide mental health (individual and group therapy) services to survivors of sexual abuse/trauma in Spanish and English. Assisted in creating a curriculum for male survivors of sexual abuse and co-facilitated male survivors psychoeducation and process groups.

Responsible for providing support to academic service-learning programs. Worked with various community partners (nonprofit agencies) to establish relationships with UWM for service-learning and ongoing volunteer programs.

Provided individual counseling to LGBT veterans. Conducted cross-sex hormone replacement therapy mental health evaluations with transgender veterans. Co-facilitated suicide prevention and education support group for veterans.

Worked with adolescent boys and girls in a residential treatment facility. Administered both intelligence (WISC) and personality (MMPI-II) assessments and wrote comprehensive reports that were reported to the medical and mental health teams.

Provided individual, family, and group therapy to Latino/a adults and adolescents. Utilized bilingual (Spanish) and bicultural skills to provide culturally appropriate interventions and therapy to Spanish speaking clients. Worked within multidisciplinary medical team to address client’s medical and family needs in therapy. Developed Latino male survivors of sexual trauma, depression management, and Type 2 diabetes stress management groups.