Lisa Ferentz, Lcsw-C, Dapa Email & Phone Number

Owings Mills, Maryland, Us

• Founder, Course Master and Primary Instructor, providing advanced continuing education for Social Workers, Psychologists, LCPC's and other mental health professionals. • Engage and oversee a faculty of mental health professionals who provide expertise on a wide range of clinical issues; Offer a strengths-based approach to assessment and evaluation, where an emphasis is placed upon offering creative treatment modalities for children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and groups.• Facilitates Level I and Level II Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment; Instructs clinicians on current trauma theory, assessment and diagnostic strategies, the principles and practice of effective, creative trauma treatment, and an understanding of vicarious traumatization.

• Presents full and half day trainings at the annual Conference• Topics include: trauma and the brain; eating disorders; working with self-harming behaviors; treating dissociative disorders

• Provides ongoing case consultation for work with traumatized clients• Offering assessment, diagnosis, and creative treatment modalities• Transference and Counter-transferential issues• Clinical self-care to enhance efficacy

• Provide insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, solution-focused psychotherapies, art therapy, and Ericksonian Hypnosis for Adult Children of Alcoholics, Co-Dependents, patients with depression, anxiety, self-injurious behaviors, addictions, eating disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, survivors of sexual abuse and other childhood trauma, as well as individual, marital, and family counseling. • Consult with approximately 20 clients per week.

• Founder, Course Master and Primary Instructor, providing advanced continuing education for Social Workers, Psychologists, LCPC's and other mental health professionals. • Engage and oversee a faculty of mental health professionals who provide expertise on a wide range of clinical issues; Offer a strengths-based approach to assessment and evaluation, where an emphasis is placed upon offering creative treatment modalities for children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and groups.• Facilitates Level I and Level II Certificate Programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment; Instructs clinicians on current trauma theory, assessment and diagnostic strategies, the principles and practice of effective, creative trauma treatment, and an understanding of vicarious traumatization.

• Provide core lectures for interns and residents in the bio-psycho-social model as it relates to patient care. • Lectures include an understanding of the somatization of trauma; addressing sexual and physical abuse, addiction, eating disorders, domestic violence, and parenting issues.

• Provide case consultation and in-service trainings to advanced clinical social work staff; Addressing issues including: assessment and diagnosis, treatment planning and the application of creative treatment modalities, transferential and counter-transferential dynamics and concrete resources.

• Taught first and second year graduate students• Core Faculty Member for the Continuing Professional Education Certificate Program entitled “Child and Adolescent Therapy” and creator of "The Certificate Program in Advanced Trauma Treatment"• Frequent presenter at Continuing Education workshops

• Provided all hospital employees with continuing education program that incorporated full-day in-service trainings and workshops offering experiential and didactic emphasis on stress management, organizational dynamics, and personal development.

• Provided trainings to social workers, psychologists, and counselors treating diverse clients with a myriad of presenting problems. • Provided formal casework consultation to clinical staff; Processed assessment issues, diagnosis, treatment modalities and interventions on individual and multi-system levels.

• Facilitated eight-week therapy groups for adolescents from separated and divorced families; Provided follow-up sessions and consultation for parents.

• Provide psychotherapy for individuals, families, and couples including two years of group work at Owings Mills Elementary School with children of separated and divorced families• Conducted workshops, case presentations, and peer consultation.

M.S.W., Specialization In Family And Children

B.A., Major: Theatre; Minor: Psychology, English

Ba In Theatre And Psychology, Theatre/Theater