Joelle Mourad Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Focus on working with adults around immediate situational stressors or ongoing personal or interpersonal issues. Areas of attention include exploration of personal identity; racial, gender, sexual, and role identities, especially in the context of family of origin; navigating challenges in parenting children of all ages; coping with the strain of being a caregiver to another with significant needs; and managing major medical illness or mild to moderate TBIs. Ability to manage mild to moderate depression and anxiety as well as other psychiatric issues in a private practice setting. Warm, nurturing, accepting style balanced with an ability to gently hold clients accountable to their own goals and stated values. Strong boundaries.

Specializing in adult and adolescent individual, family, and group therapy. Extensive experience with family therapy and teaching parenting skills, specifically around parenting teens. Expertise treating families struggling with severe eating disorders in an intensive outpatient setting. Psychodynamically trained and focused, but also comfortable with using CBT and DBT interventions when appropriate. Well-versed in working on a multidisciplinary team to best serve the whole child and family system. Interested in continuing to find ways to bridge experience in secondary education as a teacher and work as a psychotherapist.

Completed Post-Masters internship at McAuley Institute; adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. Was responsible for all patient family therapy with a team of 3 other interns and two supervising social work therapists.

Provided ongoing individual and group psychotherapy services on an outpatient basis to adults, adolescents and couples. Also provided group treatment though Kaiser's Intensive Outpatient Program for adult patients in crisis or struggling with severe and persistent mental illness.

Provided individual and family therapy to children and adolescents in special education classrooms throughout San Mateo County. Co-led art therapy groups for children and adolescents under the supervision of a licensed art therapist.

Taught high school General, Honors and AP Chemistry at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, CA.

Taught General Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, and non-calculus based Physics as replacement for faculty on sabbatical, medical leave, etc. at several points from January 1998 to June 2005.

B.A., Chemistry

Msw, Masters In Clinical Social Work; Emphasis On Working With Children And Adolescents

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