Skilled in the use of several treatment modalities including crisis intervention, insight development, cognitive-behavioral therapy, supportive treatment, and brief and extended casework. Direct practice skills include individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy, case management, outreach, advocacy, intake interviewing and assessment, facilitating the delivery of concrete services, drug/alcohol evaluation and treatment, drug/alcohol family interventions, and monitored drug urine testing. Client populations include children, adolescents, adults and older adults from varied ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. Practice settings include child welfare, youth services, health and mental health, hospital, industry, domestic violence, education, substance abuse treatment, and family services in both urban and suburban environments.Administrative and supervisory responsibilities have included development of curriculum and resource material, implementation of training workshops and seminars for supervisors, youth workers, middle managers, line staff, teachers, students, mental health and health professionals and paraprofessionals; program design, supervision of M.S.W. students, mental health workers, and volunteers.Specialties: Areas of expertise include clinical work with adolescents and their families, victims of domestic violence, recovering alcoholics and addicts, young adults, women's issues and parenting issues.