Gina Kinan Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States

• Works with clients with a wide range of intellectual, developmental, and physical abilities.
• Creates resumes for clients, develops interviewing and job skills, assists them with applying for jobs and supports them within their work sites.

Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States

• Met with youth between the ages of six and 18 for weekly 1:1 teletherapy sessions.
• Implemented the use of different therapeutic models in sessions including psychodynamic therapy, solutions-focused therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and narrative therapy.
• Completed biopsychosocial assessment, mental status exams, and treatment plans for new clients, as well as tracking progress with the use of progress notes, process recordings, and quarterly reports.
• Facilitated trainings to youth and families requested by the town.
• Evaluated the success of different programs offered by the agency by designing new evaluation tools.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Met with a caseload of students with behavioral and emotional impairments for weekly 1:1 counseling sessions.
• Supported teachers within their classrooms to assist with managing student behaviors.

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

• Assisted clients in exploring interests within the community (this includes sports, art, music, acting, etc.) as well as applying for jobs, maintaining apartments, and attending doctors’ appointments.
• Provided informal counseling for clients with many different abilities and mental health challenges.
• Attended school meetings and helped clients with academic and social concerns.
• Accompanied clients to court and wrote court letters in terms of their progress while open with the program.
• Utilized different counseling approaches including motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Collaborated with fellow corps members, teachers and administration to aid the students at Gilbert Stuart Middle School in Providence.
• Devised lesson plans, conceived academic and extracurricular events, groups, and programs, and provided academic guidance to all students in four different English classes.
• Encouraged and worked with students to attend school and behave positively.
• Spearheaded English & Language Arts initiatives throughout the school.

Coventry, Rhode Island, United States

• Assisted behavioral analysts on working with people (ages ranging from 15 to 22-years-old) who had autism.
• Taught students writing, mathematics, and problem solving using visual imagery, playing games, and making art.
• Helped shaped students’ behaviors by using ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) with the help of positive reinforcement.

Kingston, RI

• Served as an undergraduate teaching assistant to Dr. Helen Mederer of the University of Rhode Island’s sociology department for SOC100 (Introduction of Sociology) and SOC212 (Families in Society).

Kingston, RI

• Served as a member of the University of Rhode Island’s psychology department as a research assistant on a graduate research project with Dr. Jasmine Mena. Assisted on the research and study of underserved populations.
• Served as a member of the University of Rhode Island’s psychology department as a research assistant on a graduate research project with Dr. Mark Wood. Studied stress and anxiety levels and how it affects alcohol.

Peace Dale, RI

• Assisted clients with questions, issues, or information about the company, therapists or other related issues.
• Worked with computer programs, answered the telephone, made sure there were sufficient amounts of psychological testing for the psychologists.
• Worked with the evaluation, inputting, and interpretation of psychological testing (MASC, ASRS, MMPI, BASC, BRIEF, PsychCorp, etc.) and had knowledge with Google/GoogleDocs, SPSS, Microsoft (Word, Powerpoint, Excel).

Master'S Degree, Social Work

Education record

High School Diploma, General, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Track & Field, Gay - Straight Alliance, Yearbook Committee