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Provide oversight and supervision of clinical team and clinical services. Provide individual clinical supervision to pre-licensed therapists and interns. Assist with strategic planning, grant management, and reporting. Provide individual and group therapy to survivors of sexual assault.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Supervise CSWs and clinical interns. Lead clinical training seminar and perform new client intakes. Provide individual and group therapy to survivors of sexual assault.

Teach online and in person courses as needed. To date I have taught Introduction to Social Work (SW 1010) and Social Diversity and Cultural Understanding (SW 3550).

Therapist and owner of Connected Paths, LLC. I specialize in working with adults in the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals impacted by adoption. I provide services to individuals located in Utah via telehealth.

Social worker providing care for internal medicine, family medicine, and LGBTQ+ health at the Salt Lake clinic. Provide case management, crisis intervention, and other brief interventions as needed. Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary team including physicians, nurse care managers, and community stakeholders.

Provide individual mental health therapy for adults who are LGBTQIA+. Provide supporting letters for affirmative care, such as gender affirming surgeries. Attend weekly clinical team meetings and biweekly co-supervision. Utilize simple practice for telehealth visits and documentation.

Taught Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Caregiver Training to current foster parents in the state of Utah. Taught course virtually via Zoom, as well as in person. Co-taught with new TBRI practitioners at the agency to provide support as they transitioned to teaching the course on their own. Received consistent positive feedback from foster parent attendees.

Midvale, Utah, United States

Provided individual outpatient therapy for children and adults age five and up. Additionally provided therapy for couples and families. Utilized EMDR, TBRI, strengths based approach, and PCIT informed approaches with clients. Provided sessions in person and virtually via HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.

Provide ethical options counseling to expectant parents, provide ongoing counseling for birth parents, write home studies for families who want to adopt from foster care, provide case management for families seeking to adopt from foster care, facilitate support groups for people who have been touched by adoption. Supervise Masters and Bachelors level interns. Facilitate individual and family therapy utilizing EMDR, TBRI, and play therapy. Completed basic training for PCIT.

Online Adjunct Instructor in the Home and Family Department. Taught course on Family Theories and Dynamics. Theories taught include Family Development Theory, Exchange Theory, Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, Feminist Theory, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism. Facilitate online discussion boards, grade weekly assignments, hold online office hours, maintain contact with students via email and other online resources, participated in monthly online instructor group meetings. Served… Show more Online Adjunct Instructor in the Home and Family Department. Taught course on Family Theories and Dynamics. Theories taught include Family Development Theory, Exchange Theory, Structural Functionalism, Systems Theory, Feminist Theory, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism. Facilitate online discussion boards, grade weekly assignments, hold online office hours, maintain contact with students via email and other online resources, participated in monthly online instructor group meetings. Served one semester as an Online Course Representative, representing the interests of other online instructors to campus faculty, worked collaboratively with on campus faculty and course designers to improve course content. Show less

Assessing preschool aged children using the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Assessments were done as part of multiple research studies determining the effectiveness of preschool. Assessments were done at the beginning and end of the school year with children enrolled in preschool, along with wait-listed children who were used as a control. Completed CITI training before entering the field. Worked to maintain consistency in… Show more Assessing preschool aged children using the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT). Assessments were done as part of multiple research studies determining the effectiveness of preschool. Assessments were done at the beginning and end of the school year with children enrolled in preschool, along with wait-listed children who were used as a control. Completed CITI training before entering the field. Worked to maintain consistency in performing assessments as to protect the integrity of the research study. Show less

Facilitating therapeutic after school program aimed at delinquency prevention. Facilitating psycho-educational groups for elementary school aged children using Positive Action Curriculum, as well as facilitating psycho-educational support group for parents.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Facilitated individual and group therapy for women in outpatient treatment for addiction, co-facilitated groups on healthy sexuality, attended daily staff meetings to address client concerns, assessed clients utilizing the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s (ASAM) criteria, used the Utah Web Infrastructure for Treatment Services (UWITS) for documentation.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Co-facilitated parenting groups for grandparents, co-facilitated groups for children to address substance abuse prevention and self-esteem, revised curriculum for children’s groups, administered pre- and post-assessments to children in groups, facilitated individual therapy with clients of all ages, assisted clients in filing court documents for guardianship, gathered research data through phone interviews.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Worked with children and adolescents in an intensive outpatient treatment center, observed play therapy sessions, facilitated psycho-educational groups with latency aged children and adolescents, learned to set limits with children ages 6-12, learned to build rapport with adolescents, administered the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) to parents in the program.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Social Work, 3.975

Advanced Standing, Public Services Domain

Bsw, Social Work, 3.923

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society Music Minor