- Provide remote therapy to clients in Maryland dealing with a range of mental health issues.

- Provided pastoral care to patients in the entire hospital through counseling, praying and working with doctors, nurses and patient’s family to develop long term support for patients and their families dealing with grief, depression, and end of life care decisions.- Participated in peer group and supervisor consultation weekly to monitor and learn from my patient interactions. - Successfully completed13 24-hour on-call shifts and ran spirituality groups in the Norman and Ida Stone… Show more - Provided pastoral care to patients in the entire hospital through counseling, praying and working with doctors, nurses and patient’s family to develop long term support for patients and their families dealing with grief, depression, and end of life care decisions.- Participated in peer group and supervisor consultation weekly to monitor and learn from my patient interactions. - Successfully completed13 24-hour on-call shifts and ran spirituality groups in the Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry in Galter Pavilion. - Developed clinical therapy skills, pastoral care, team building and religious leadership skills. Show less

- Managed caseload of 10 clients who are either directly or indirectly affected by community violence dealing with a range of traumas and behavioral issues especially PTSD, substance abuse, grief and severe depression.- Provided trauma-informed psychosocial therapy along with clinical case management to provide need-based housing and schooling.- Conducted rounds in Comer Children’s Hospital to spread information about REACT and get clients through the patients who visit Comer ER.

- The University of Chicago Medicine REACT Program: Recovery & Empowerment After Community Trauma is a response to Chicago’s greatest ongoing public health challenge: community violence. Based in an urban children’s hospital, UCM REACT provides African American patients affected by community violence with brief trauma- focused intervention, as well as access to trauma-informed psychiatric and psychological services and ongoing trauma- focused therapy. UCM REACT builds on Healing Hurt People -… Show more - The University of Chicago Medicine REACT Program: Recovery & Empowerment After Community Trauma is a response to Chicago’s greatest ongoing public health challenge: community violence. Based in an urban children’s hospital, UCM REACT provides African American patients affected by community violence with brief trauma- focused intervention, as well as access to trauma-informed psychiatric and psychological services and ongoing trauma- focused therapy. UCM REACT builds on Healing Hurt People - Chicago (HHP-C), a partnership between UCM Comer Children's Hospital and the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. HHP-C offers hospital-based violence intervention services to young patients who have been shot or suffered other violent injuries. - Assisted with client data entry and creating a spreadsheet of Chicago shootings to keep the program intact. Show less

- Managed a caseload of 10 different students in a middle school in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.- Provided the students social and emotional support with cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma informed care as they navigate through various traumas and behavioral issues including suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety, grief, anger management.- Developed skills of communication, compassion, empathy through counseling and case management.

- Accepted in a highly selective AmeriCorps program (25% acceptance rate) to serve a year by working with Chicago Public School youth at O’Keeffe School of Excellence in the South Shore community to decrease dropout rate through behavior, attendance and academic intervention. - Tutored 10 “focus list” 5th graders in English Literacy and help develop behavior initiatives. Work as the behavior coordinator of the team in order to make behavior lunches with students more effective… Show more - Accepted in a highly selective AmeriCorps program (25% acceptance rate) to serve a year by working with Chicago Public School youth at O’Keeffe School of Excellence in the South Shore community to decrease dropout rate through behavior, attendance and academic intervention. - Tutored 10 “focus list” 5th graders in English Literacy and help develop behavior initiatives. Work as the behavior coordinator of the team in order to make behavior lunches with students more effective. - Participated in a City Year Leadership organization called Corps Council where we bridge the gaps between the 24 schools that we serve in in order to create a more cohesive corps through sharing ideas, holding events, building team dynamics and appreciation. - Hand selected as one of the 55 out of 206 corps members who represented City Year at the City Year Ripples of Hope Dinner and connected with top businesses across Chicago to fundraise and increase awareness of the organization. Show less

- Worked with different organizations around DePaul University to help create acceptance of different faiths throughout the university.- Had meetings every week with the different scholars to develop understanding of different faiths and personal struggles within faith. Held Quarterly Inter-Religious Celebrations every quarter for the entire university about different faith-based subjects to educate students and staff. - Developed open-mindedness, communication, acceptance, community… Show more - Worked with different organizations around DePaul University to help create acceptance of different faiths throughout the university.- Had meetings every week with the different scholars to develop understanding of different faiths and personal struggles within faith. Held Quarterly Inter-Religious Celebrations every quarter for the entire university about different faith-based subjects to educate students and staff. - Developed open-mindedness, communication, acceptance, community building and leadership skills by working with different scholars and the community at large. Show less