Mohammad Afsar Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assess and provide veterans and families with the support addressing their unique psychosocial needs.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of healthcare providers to coordinate care.
• Advise family care givers, provide patient education and counseling, and make referrals for other services.
• Provide care and case management as well as interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access healthcare.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed lesson plans and facilitated an Applied Statistics course for the Social Welfare Department.
• Held office hours and provided individual tutoring sessions to students with higher needs.
• Attended class lecture, responded to student questions, graded exams and assignments.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed and facilitated an 8 weeklong Wellness and Recovery group module for Veterans of various ages.
• Attended weekly interdisciplinary seminars along with Psychology post-doctoral fellows, nurses, and social workers; presented on clinical cases; and led mindfulness practices for other healthcare professionals.
• Provided individual psychotherapy to Veterans under hierarchical supervision from Social Workers and Psychologists.
• Co-facilitated a California Law & Ethics seminar for the VA cohort of 2018 – 2019 social work interns.
• Completed an 8 weeklong course on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
• Completed Suicide Risk Assessments, Mental Health Initial Assessments, and Program Placement Referrals through the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS).

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided one-on-one psychotherapy to high school students and implemented a wide range of interventions including interventions for grief, loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, and emotion regulation.
• Provided Trauma Focused case management, conflict resolution and crisis intervention for students and their families utilizing a Restorative Justice Model.
• Collaborated with a dynamic team of school counselors, school psychologists, and field instructors to ensure the best mental health services for the clients.
• Maintained rigorous paperwork to keep records of clients’ prognosis as well as interventions.
• Provided Trauma Focused supportive therapy and counseling to vulnerable students who are in jeopardy of not graduating with behavioral and emotional distress from a population of low socio-economic status.

Moreno Valley, CA

• Guided behavior of students in classes of various sizes and grade levels while implementing substitute teaching lesson plans laid out by the primary teacher.
• Mediated conflicts among challenging students and addressed their emotional as well as behavioral needs.
• Assisted students in their subject work and encouraged them to perform to the best of their abilities on all assignments and projects.
• Provided support during situations in which the students are not responding positively to the material and adjusted teaching style accordingly.

Redwood Shores, CA

• Cultivated relationships with key decision makers in Fortune 500 companies to sell support for open source.
• Managed client relationships from point of contact to close; developed territories throughout U.S.
• Processed contracts, legal agreements, amendments, and purchasing information to close business.
• Collaborated with field counterparts to strategically increase account services in coordinated efforts.
• Executed entire sales cycle of lead generation, demonstrations, deal bookings, and internal tool follow-ups.
• Collaborated with other enterprise vendors to create pipeline for providing additional services to clients.

Berkeley, CA

• Conducted face to face interviews with mentally ill participants regarding smoking/lifestyle and delivered the ProChange Expert System intervention. Distributed Nicotine Replacement Therapy (i.e. gums, patches, etc.).
• Followed up with participants, scheduled interviews and counseling appointments, performed office duties.
• Disbursed cash and money order payments, mailed letters to participants’ clinicians.

Berkeley, CA

• Developed and supervised an active community of 65 diverse residents.
• Delegated hall staff recruitment process (i.e., panel and group interviews), coordinated student transition and orientation, and performed administrative duties in a timely manner.
• Enforced hall policies in a consistent manner.
• Mediated conflicts between residents, organized small-scale and large-scale programs for them.
• Provided one-to-one counseling in severe cases.
• Won a National Residence Hall Honorary award for outstanding contributions to the Residence Hall community.

UC Berkeley

• Administered standardized assessment procedures and completed experimental protocols with participants.
• Coded and analyzed participants' responses to the experiment.
• Conducted extensive literature reviews as part of formulating ideas and designing studies.

Moreno Valley, CA

• Tutored an extremely diverse group of community college students in Math, English, Chemistry, Biology, and Health Science.
• Planned lessons, counseled with students, and trained new employees.

Master Of Social Work - Msw

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Muslim Student's Assiciation

Associate Of Science (A.S.)