• Provide motivational interviewing (MI) and solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT)-based Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to treatment (SBIRT) and crisis intervention immediately following acute intoxication for up to 5 clients daily. Collaborate with family members, EMS, peer recovery support staff, and agency administrators to develop care plans and safety plans.• Advocate against unnecessary incarceration of clients through negotiation with Austin Police Department officers.• Screen clients for risky substance use (AUDIT/DAST) and suicide risk (C-SSRS).• Identify and match clients with severe needs to a higher level of care using the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM); co-navigate community resources for housing, education, and psychiatric support (e.g. Dell Seton Medical Center, Integral Care, Community Care, EMS, City of Austin Community Court, & Foundation Communities).• Provide individual and group psychotherapy to underserved clients experiencing housing instability as they transition to a higher level of care; lead discharge planning.• Foster interdisciplinary team cohesion and provide MI training to EMTs and peer recovery support staff.

• Facilitate 100+ interprofessional MI, SBIRT, and brief intervention simulations; measure & evaluate fidelity (MITI-4); provide MI-adherent feedback on counseling sessions to 635+ behavioral health specialists and graduate students across schools of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, and social work.• Lecture on cultural considerations in MI and the role of AI in measuring MI treatment fidelity; guest lecture for Masters, Undergraduate, and Doctoral-level courses across multiple health services fields.• Co-author course lesson plans, syllabus, assignments, and led correspondence with students.• Facilitate MI role-play sessions, measured & evaluated fidelity using the MITI-4, and provided MI-adherent feedback to students.• Nominated by students and faculty to receive 2 graduate student awards (final decisions pending).• Received perfect ratings in UT Austin’s Course Instructor Survey (5.0/5.0 in all categories).

• Lead, manage, and train laboratory staff to conduct literature/systematic/scoping reviews on health behavior change; review and synthesize literature on group treatment for substance use disorders and the stages & mechanisms of health behavior change.• Present findings at conferences, meetings, and symposia.• Co-facilitate brief intervention training sessions in a pilot SBIRT training program at Dell Medical School.

• Coordinate meetings and resources for the executive committee to evaluate university faculty

• Initiated daily individual MI/SFBT sessions with 10 high school & middle school students in a disciplinary alternative education program (DAEP) and credit recovery school.• Supported students in community resource navigation, employment, and education.• Mediated conversations between students, teachers, agency administrators, police officers, child protective services, and nurses while navigating policy to advocate for student needs.• Conducted over 15 brief interventions, crisis interventions, and grief/loss sessions to resolve emergent needs.

• Co-facilitated 18 weekly psychoeducational reentry groups for incarcerated veterans in Travis County Correctional Complex; leveraged MI and SFBT in group sessions.• Coordinated care across the Austin ECHO/HMIS system with 40 agencies to serve veteran families through community resource navigation and employment/education support; navigated public assistance programs (e.g. HUD, SNAP, Social Security, SSI, SSDI, & veteran's benefits).• Designed, implemented, and evaluated a 4-part training on MI engagement skills, becoming an agency procedure.

• Managed a data collection system for logging n=60 participants' data on intervention engagement.• Represented laboratory and present study findings at addiction biology conferences to diverse university stakeholders, including students, research faculty, and administrators.• Reported participant program engagement to federal grantor SAMHSA monthly.• Led correspondence with UT Health partner agency administrators.

• Designed research assistants' lab protocol for data collection, participant engagement, and monthly reports to federal grantors.• Created a welcome video for participants in response to survey results that indicated a need for study appropriateness.• Conducted 11 semi-structured interviews, refined codebook based on research questions, and analyzed interviews with NVivo coding software.

• Designed and implemented an art therapy program for clients with comorbid mental illnesses and substance use disorders.• Conduct daily alcohol use disorder withdrawal screenings (CIWA-AR).• Led daily house meetings with clients to discuss and assess client needs; facilitate conflict resolution as needed.• Advocated for client needs by mediating conversations between clients and treatment center staff from multiple professional disciplines (i.e. psychiatric nursing, pharmacy, administrators, psychology/counseling, and social work).• Independently moderated treatment center of 15 clients.• Streamlined protocols for documentation of client progress, needs, vitals, medication, and behavior.