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Fireweed Horizons, LLC, facilitates climate and social-political resilience workshops that teach skills to manage overwhelm and distractibility in this busy and often fractured world. Fireweed Horizons, LLC enjoys creating workshops that engage participants to think deeply about how they want to show up in their life and teaches tools to help people get there. These workshops weave together instruction, humor, and experiential learning activities to help participants engage fully in the material.

Private practice providing individual therapy for adults - maximizing strengths and addressing challenges so that clients can identify and use skills and strategies to create meaningful change in their life. My specialties include anxiety, mild/moderate depression, stress, transitions, environmental disasters, those experiencing eco-distress, those that identify as neurodivergent, those in the creative, entrepreneur, and/or nature-based work, and outdoor or adventure enthusiasts.

Educationally Related Mental Health Service Provider - providing trauma-informed counseling, consultation, and behavior support for kindergarten through high school-age students in self-contained special education classrooms.Providing individual and group counseling focusing on anxiety, depression, anger management, and social skills, including the use of restorative practices. Guiding classroom-based social skills instruction and developing Behavior Intervention Plans and IEP social/emotional goals. Providing team and individual consultation services to teachers and staff.

* Produced needs assessments for each client, identifying physical and mental health needs and prioritization*Communicated the available resources to clients while they were in various levels of distress*Collaborated with nurse practitioners, prescribers, medical doctors, and hospitals to pilot the company's first collaborative telehealth assessments for hospital discharges during the pandemic

Educationally Related Mental Health Service Provider - providing trauma informed counseling, consultation, and behavior support for kindergarten through high school age students in self-contained special education classrooms for students with emotional and behavioral challenges.Providing individual and group counseling focusing on anxiety, depression, anger management and social skills, including the use of restorative practices. Guiding classroom-based social skills instruction including the use of, Kimochis, Zones of Regulation, Second Step, and Superflex. Developing Behavior Intervention plans and IEP social/emotional goals. Providing team and individual consultation services to teachers and staffAdditional training received:Restorative Conference Facilitator 2-Day Training, SCOE, Santa Rosa, CA 2014Best Practices for Assessment of Autism, SCOE Santa Rosa, CA 2014Professional Assault Crisis Training Pro-ActWriting Effective BIPS 2-Day TrainingUnderstanding Autism Spectrum DisordersBest Practice Strategies and Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Applied Behavior Analysis Strategies and Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Program

Providing behavior and family support for students with developmental disabilities (preschool-5th grade).

Caseworker - Assessed services and legal needs for a diverse clientele at Marin’s Community Court. Successfully coordinated resources for a diverse clientele involved with Child Protective Services. Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams including lawyers, medical staff, Child Protective Services, and family members.

*Developed and implemented lessons and worked closely with early intervention specialists to coordinate services for special needs students. Additional training received: • Preschool English Learners Training, SCOE, Santa Rosa, 2012• Understanding Sensory Processing Disorders, Preschool Directors Mentor Project, Petaluma, 2012

Contracted work: Summer and spring camp*Designed program schedules and activities, supervised and trained staff and student counselors, instructed student on wilderness living skills and coordinated with land owners, parks staff, and parents.