Matthew R. Willms, M.A., Aac Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, Washington, United States

Providing case management, psychoeducation, DBT skill-building, vocational, academic, practical needs, and therapeutic support for adults as well as children.

Aberdeen, Washington, United States

Behavioral health counseling, incorporating diverse/personalized approaches to care/treatment assessment, planning, and delivery. Adapting a client-centered, strength-based approach, with incorporation of dialectical (DBT)- and cognitive (CBT)- behavioral therapies, trauma-focused, grief/process therapies, and other frameworks.

Auburn, Washington

Courthouse security screening

Port Angeles, Washington

Mental health assessment, involuntary treatment investigation, crisis intervention services. Crisis case management, brief therapy and treatment/safety planning. Court-ordered mental health evaluations, coordination and collaboration with agency clinicians and hospital staff.

Spokane, Washington Area

Trained in security, crowd management, and event staffing skills across every type of venue and event imaginable. Application of advanced interpersonal, de-escalation and crisis prevention techniques across complex client interactions. Team lead for alcohol enforcement operations at the Pasco-side beer garden, Tri-City Water Follies (hydroplane races) 2017.

Seattle / Capitol Hill

Providing mental health counseling and case management services to a mixed forensic population, a caseload of over a hundred individuals battling the complex processes of reentry in addition to longstanding disorder and disability, mental illness, homelessness... For me, the work embodies a Dialectical Behavioral (DBT) approach to individual and group therapy. Clinicians undertake treatment planning accountable to mental health, chemical dependency, legal, vocational/ educational, housing, and health problems; treatment notes, crisis plans, progress reports to probation, assessments at the ER, and more.

Renton, Wa

Temporary Part-time Employment. Invaluable internship opportunity to enhance ASL skills while fostering the learning and application of reflexive crisis intervention and prevention techniques in working with developmentally disabled adults. Extensive experience communicating both with deaf clients and deaf staff members. Provide both home and community support to adults with different developmental disabilities. Assist in all daily living needs and activities with clients while providing therapeutic programming.

Criminal Justice Department

Assisted undergraduate course Murder Movies & Copycat Crime four consecutive summer quarters. Commended for generous, helpful written feedback on students’ midterm and final written exams. Responsible for aiding in classroom discussions and group activity. Tutor students one-to-one. Writing content, organization, demonstrating clear understanding as well as incorporation of course materials.

Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences

WA Risk Assessment Initiative. Funded through Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). Testing the predictive utility of multiple standardized risk-assessment tools comprised of factors empirically linked to sexual recidivism. Trained and experienced in scoring WASOST, MnSOST, Static 99/2002, STABLE, PCL-R and others. Collected data from official sex-offender files from which to score all cases on each tool. Enter data into a database derived from systematic scoring entries. Filtered eighty-six sex offender cases of varying risk levels through each assessment tool under testing.

Complete up to three offender intakes per day, Monday through Friday. Drawing from offender interviews and files, classify and assess accurately the risk levels of individuals of all offending types. Help offenders to address sensitive personal and socio-legal issues and to obtain community resources. Write thorough and accurate community/safety risk-narratives for supervising field officers. Developed an empathetic communicative approach with offenders that enhanced the interview process. Completed 142 offender intakes.

Kirkland, Wa

Lead a diverse and often inconsistent staff team (1-3) working day shift on the acute adult unit. Implemented an adaptive, DBT based group structure applicable to a diverse and acute adult population. Groups embodied a range of themes from conflict resolution to emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Assess quickly and accurately acuity levels and cognitive capacities for individuals and groups on the milieu. Organize team response (“code”) to unpredictable situations with minimal resources. Write clear and accurate patient progress notes addressing therapeutic goals. In charge of training staff on new and existing program structures.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Criminal Justice, 3.457

Activities and Societies: Member of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).Graduated with a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology

Certificate of Training. Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC). Marsha M. Linehan Ph.D., Professor (Borderline Personality.

Associate'S Degree, Psychology

Two years / general requirements