Libby Shrobe Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Over the past several months, I have taken the opportunity to decompress from a direct care position in a major hospital that I held throughout the pandemic. I have used this time to re-center and identify how I can better use my experience and talents in the workforce moving forward. I also had the wonderful opportunity to work for 6 weeks on a.

Boston, MA, US

• Screen complex referrals to the Bridge Clinic and provide appropriate intake coordination to aide with evaluation and linkage to most appropriate care placement
• Act as primary point person to communicate with outside treaters (e.g. hospitals, CSS/TSS, PCPs) about care coordination for active Bridge patients
• Facilitate communication amongst Bridge Clinic staff to ensure patients are receiving optimal interdisciplinary care by connecting to full spectrum of treatment and supports at the clinic
• Work collaboratively with patients, Bridge Clinic staff, and community partners to assist with patients’ transition to long term community-based addiction treatment as appropriate
• Provide crisis intervention as indicated by screening patients who present for care and offer short term therapy to a small case load of clients with focus on stabilization and early recovery goals

Boston, MA, US

• Provided motivational interviewing, problem solving skills, and case management on the inpatient Addiction Consult Team to patients thinking about making any change with their alcohol or substance use
• Provided trauma informed short-term outpatient individual counseling, utilizing psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to assist patients with treatment readiness.
• Utilized integrative clinical approaches to address substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders including motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma informed affective support, and.
• Provided care coordination services, connecting patients to insurance, primary care, detox, and long-term community-based substance use treatment to patients in the MGH Bridge Clinic- Worked onsite throughout the.

Watertown, Massachusetts, US

• Managed all aspects of start-up implementation of new federal grant program addressing prevention of opioid misuse in older women through community capacity building and public education
• Developed, piloted, and conducted two rounds of a psycho-education group curriculum for older women targeting the unique intersections between pain management and opioid misuse
• Cultivated program’s expertise in the subjects of older adults, substance use and pain management to provide technical assistance to other agencies and to build public awareness, including providing interviews on local.
• Created, coordinated, and co-presented trainings to staff of partner agencies on topics including opioid misuse, Motivational Interviewing, and SBIRT
• Convened and facilitated a project Advisory Board including of 14 federal, state, and local partners
• Devised and implemented a streamlined evaluation process, including evaluation surveys and a data management system

Cambridge, MA, US

• Participated as member of a multi-disciplinary team providing psychodynamic services to adult outpatients in an urban teaching hospital
• Provided long term psychodynamic-based psychotherapy on a weekly basis to an average of 10 adult clients, with focus on mood disorders and trauma related symptoms
• Developed safe and trusting relationships with 5 clients that facilitated engagement in stage 1 trauma work
• Conducted biopsychosocial intake assessments for new clients presenting for treatment
• Utilized integrative clinical approaches including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma informed, and motivational interviewing for ongoing assessment, evaluation, and treatment of clients

• Participated as member of treatment team on acute inpatient unit in public psychiatric hospital
• Successfully built relationships with two treatment resistant paranoid and psychotic patients to provide clinical interventions and collaborative discharge planning
• Drafted comprehensive biopsychosocial intake reports
• Coordinated treatment team meetings and discharge planning for caseload
• Engaged with psychotic disorders, personality disorders, sexual offenses, and severe suicidal ideation/intent

Smyrna, GA, US

• Provided sustained home and community-based case management services to a caseload of 20 clients with mental illness in a community mental health agency.
• Taught clients independent living skills including budgeting, daily scheduling, and stress management and linked clients to community resources for daily needs
• Lead team member for administrative support during supervisor’s maternity leave
• Navigated clients through application processes for government and community-based assistance programs
• Consistently exceeded productivity standards while managing a full caseload of clients

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Help coordinate and plan the 29th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, this year focused on the implications of the Affordable Care Act on behavioral healthcare. For the symposium I am in charge of managing the invitation database, writing the script for the proceedings of the symposium, drafting all printed materials, and coordinating.

Boston, MA, US

Chart review of patients metabolic information and medicine history; Observed diagnostic and cognitive assessments of patients with schizophrenia; Pipetted blood and escorted lab samples to appropriate clinics around hospital campus; Trained to take vital signs and EKGs of patients as well as trained in phlebotomy; Worked on grant applications and.

Assisted clients with disabilities in weekly art class; Coordinated art shows in local cafes and shops to promote the work of mentally disabled artists; Selected, arranged and curated art shows at the local cafes and crafts fairs to support program and raise money; Organized and managed fundraising events

Boston, MA, US

Reviewed and charted the wage increases and wage pay class rates for over 150 negotiated union contracts; Analyzed data according to job classifications, universities, years, inflation and other economic markers; Created presentation, including figures and charts, to illustrate findings to lay population of union members; Developed pilot orientation.

Masters Of Social Work, Clinical/Medical Social Work

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Clinical Psychology

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates