Julie Defalco Email & Phone Number

Clayton Nc

Specializations: • Adolescent Development – helping parents understand what’s to be expected with normal adolescent development and what might indicate a problem.• Aggression and Behavioral Disorders – helping children and teens understand the motivation for their behaviors and teaching them more positive coping skills and appropriate emotional expression; helping parents set limits and structure to encourage positive behaviors.• Mood Disorders – helping clients understand and manage their emotions in order to be happy and productive.• Parent-Child Communication• Relationship Issues• Multicultural Sensitivity - Experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds.Theoretical Framework:• Takes a client-centered approach, combining cognitive-behavioral techniques with psychodynamic, insight-oriented therapy. Counseling is tailored to each client’s individual needs and preferences.Community Lectures: • Communicating with Teens• Parenting Teens• Teens & Technology

1121 E Main St, #210, St Charles, Il 60174

See above (same description for position at One-Eighty Counseling).

Aurora, Il

Taught graduate level Social Work course in the Spring and Fall semesters of 2013.SWK 6381: Social Work Practice II: Group Work* Formulated lesson plans incorporating lecture and didactic teaching.* Demonstrated group leadership techniques by leading mock therapy groups in class, showing and discussing videos of groups, and creating sample group scenarios to allow students to practice leadership skills.* Encouraged students to share and accept varied viewpoints by both asking and answering questions during lecture and after videos and role plays.* Promoted students’ self-reflection by assigning small group discussion questions and self-evaluations, and by inviting students to share work and internship experiences and process any counter-transference.* Communicated effectively with students both in person and through Moodle, the university’s online learning platform.* Created descriptive grading rubrics.* Administered grades and gave constructive feedback in a timely fashion.

Hoffman Estates, Il

• Oversaw two teen drop-in centers; developed and enhanced significant therapeutic relationships with at-risk adolescents.• Coordinated, developed and improved programs for adolescent population, including teen centers, outreach, therapeutic groups, activities and day trips.• Established and maintained positive community relations and collaborated with other agencies in developing youth programs.• Successfully procured donations to enhance youth programming.• Supervised nine counselors and youth workers.• Interviewed and trained new staff members.• Assessed and intervened in crisis situations and advised staff members during crisis interventions.• Provided individual, family and group therapy.• Completed client assessments and formulated individualized treatment plans.

Hoffman Estates, Il

• Managed teen drop-in center; developed significant therapeutic relationships with at-risk adolescents.• Supervised interns and part-time youth workers.• Revamped volunteer program and recruited, trained and supervised volunteers. Created and instituted volunteer self-appraisal and exit questionnaire to evaluate program and volunteers’ experience. • Assisted in interviewing and training new staff members.• Coordinated and oversaw activities to expand adolescents' social skills, self-awareness and positive relational experiences.• Streamlined production of and edited quarterly teen center newsletter.• Provided individual, family and group therapy.• Completed client assessments and formulated individualized treatment plans.

Palatine, Il

• Successfully conducted daily therapeutic group of 12 to 15 high-needs students ages 8-18; supervised aides assisting in the group.• Improved organization and structure of group, and established and stabilized daily routine.• Introduced specific criteria for admission to the group.• Provided individual therapy to children (ages 6-18) in a therapeutic day school setting.• Established relationships and maintained open communication with clients' families and school personnel.

Master'S Degree, Social Work, 4.0/4.0

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology