Melissa Turner Email & Phone Number

LCSW with experience in: Intensive In Home, Wilderness Family therapy, outpatient services, and residential.

North Wilkesboro, NC

• Provide individual and family therapy to participants of all ages using person centered philosophies and best practice models of therapy
• Interviews and creates Person Centered Plans for each client
• Conducts clinical interviews, gathering relevant facts of psychosocial history, and assigns accurate diagnoses using all Axes of the current DSM manual
• Provides initial and ongoing assessments, evaluates effectiveness of person centered plan and progress made by person receiving services, participates in team meetings/case reviews
• Maintains timely and accurate service documentation in a manner consistent with agency and state/federal law. Completes and submits accurate billing information on time
• Provides supervision and sound clinical judgment and planning for a team of three

• Provide customers with product, membership and service information
• Collect payment for goods, make change and distribute receipts
• Identify, research, and resolve customer issues

Boomer, NC

• Review referrals and make recommendations for acceptance into Eckerd’s program
• Maintain weekly communication with current referral’s probation officers
• Create packets and conduct intake upon juvenile’s arrival to campus
• Perform multiple assessments at determined times during service and review the findings with youth and team
• Facilitate weekly active “journal review” meetings with each resident
• Serve as point of contact for youth, their families, DSS workers, and Probation Officers

• Counseled seven individual clients ranging from first to eighth grade to address issues of behavior, anger, anxiety, and coping skills focusing on the Strengths Perspective
• Provided family counseling sessions with client and family members utilizing a Spanish interpreter
• Maintained grant calendar
• Researched, wrote, and submitted grant proposal
• Acquired $20,000 in funding by developing a grant for a Trauma Team to perform EMDR and DBT groups
• Facilitated a boy’s group and team building opportunities for middle school students

• Communicated camp requirements to parents involving proper equipment, medical paperwork, and waivers for campers
• Coordinated camp activities, requirements and information with staff and other departments
• Competent in a number of lesson plans pertaining to environmental education topics and taught groups of up to 30 students at a time
• Facilitated team building on low ropes courses with groups of students
• Created anti-bullying curriculum for staff training
• Assisted in writing a grant proposal for environmental education funds

Master Of Social Work, Social Work

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Work