Highly motivated behavioral health leader leveraging patients’ mental and emotional health assessment with brief integrated care and professional counseling to ensure patients’ emotional and mental wellbeing.Masters Level Therapist, and Vocational and Risk Management Specialist focused on reducing the frequency and severity of workers compensation costs, while ensuring employees have a healthy and safe return to gainful employment.PRESENTATIONS Forefront in the Schools "LEARN Suicide Prevention Training"Charles Wright Academy, 2019-2021"Understanding Psychological Assessments"Magnitude Consulting annual meeting, 2011"Job Analyses vs. Task Analyses"Workers' Compensation Employer Forum, Olympia, WA, February, 2011"Getting the Worker Back to Work"Workers' Compensation Employer Forum, Olympia, WA, September, 2010"Designing the Ageless Workforce"Workers' Compensation Employer Forum, Olympia, WA, July, 2009"Hug Your Customer"Magnitude Consulting annual meeting, 2008"Designing and Implementing Effective Return to Work Programs" and "Job Analyses vs. Task Analyses - How to Develop Them, and Effectively Increase Successful Return to Work Outcomes" RTW Coordinator monthly meetings, Department of Personnel, Olympia, WA, 2003 to 2005"Controlling Your Claims Costs"Washington Self-Insured Association, Disability Management Employer Coalition, and Washington State Department of Labor and Industries conferences(Washington), 1997 to 2005"The Essential Job Analysis"Nordstrom, Incorporated, 1998."Return to Work"Monthly State Fund Employer Forum in Snohomish County, 1995 to 1997. TRAINING EXPERIENCE DBT in the SchoolsUniversity of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle, WA - 2020Forefront in the Schools Suicide Prevention Cohort TrainingUniversity of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle, WA - 2019-2020LOCUS/CAL LOCUS Training for Mental Health Assessment - 2016Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Certified - 2015Developing the Ageless Workforce Train the Trainer Certification 2009 - Present Certified to deliver "Designing the Age Friendly Workplace" developed in conjunction with University of Washington and the Department of Labor and Industries, Olympia, WA. Individual Learning Contract Sponsor/Instructor 2006 - 2011 "Certified Disability Management Specialist Training Program" The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Workers' Compensation Adjudicator Train the Trainer Certification 1995 Washington State Department of Labor and Industries