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).• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals at an inpatient psychiatric unit to directly provide social work services to vulnerable veterans struggling with homelessness, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, active manic or psychotic symptoms, comorbidities, substance abuse, Military Sexual Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).• Provided therapy to Veterans utilizing techniques such as motivational interviewing, guided discovery, problem solving, psychoeducation, and active listening.• Formulated treatment plans with Veterans in order to manage and reduce psychosocial stressors.• Maintained rigorous documentations to keep records of interaction with clients and their prognosis.

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.• Assisted in on-boarding and training of new hires through multiple one-on-one sessions. • Interacted directly with all levels of customers in order to expand Oracle installed base.• Trained with professors at the Leavey School of Business and Oracle Executives on marketing, business best practices, and applying Oracle methodologies.• Trained on Sandler Sales methodology to make formal presentations at the Sales Academy Assemblies.

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.)