Samantha Menendez Email & Phone Number

•Counsel individuals, couples and families with a wide range of concerns including life transitions, anxiety, depression, pre-marital counseling, divorce concerns, among other topics.•Specialties include sex therapy, gender and orientation issues, sexual trauma and anger management•Board Certified Sex Therapist. I offer counseling for a variety of sexual issues as well.

•Lead and facilitate lectures about LGBT youth and suicide•Discuss the changing views and different aspects of gender and orientation•Assist with the setup and production of community dialogues and courses•Dialogues given throughout the community, including hospitals, social work agencies, religious communities, counseling associations, universities and high schools

•Provide individual, couple, co-parenting and family counseling for clients that are court-mandated or on probation/parole. Reasons for referrals include: domestic violence, anger management, sexual offender, sexual addiction, family reunification, substance use, etc.•Co-facilitated various groups: Medical Diagnosis Sex Offenders (Adults and Juveniles), Domestic Violence (Men and Women), Substance Abuse•Responsible for Mental Health Evaluations and Drug/Alcohol Testing•Built relationships with various case managers, referral sites and probation officers

•Provide individual, couple and family counseling. Clients are children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of concerns, including: anger management, depression, anxiety, pre-marital counseling, family discord, self-esteem, etc. •Responsible for various tasks such as, initial referrals, telephone screenings and reporting concerns, such as domestic violence and neglect, to the Department of Children and Families•Partake in bi-weekly supervision sessions, individual and group, in order to discuss treatment plans and enhance clinical skills•Attend in-service trainings and seminars in order to gain clinical knowledge. Training topics attended include: suicide, engaging adolescents, substance abuse, trauma, psychopharmacology, transpersonal therapy, child abuse, 21st century parenting, among others

•Information and referral specialist•Trained in suicide prevention•Answer calls from the Children's Trust, National Suicide Hotline, Veterans Crisis Hotline, GLBTQ Hotline and the Switchboard of Miami Helpline

•Learned all the functions of the company from sales and export to upper management•Initiated new sales plans and implemented new programs for the company•Managed daily company problems and supervised over thirty employees•Responsible for advertising in Florida, the Caribbean and South America

Master'S Degree, Marriage And Family Therapy

Activities and Societies: American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists, American Association for Sex Educators Counselors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Advertising And Economics

Advertising And Spanish