Sam Wessels Psyd Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Providing short-term, generalist practitioner, culturally affirming and trauma-informed mental health treatment to a diverse population of young adults and adults in a university college counseling setting. -Services include 8-12 session brief individual therapy, group therapy, ADHD assessment, consultation, crisis assessment and intervention, and case management via telehealth and in-person services. -Providing outreach services to various campus partners, including programming specific to the LGBTQ center at UCLA. -Co-facilitating weekly, 90 minute group therapy to seven young adults who identify as transgender, non-binary, or queer.-Individual and group clients are late adolescents, young adults, and adults, 17-30 years of age, with a wide diversity of SES, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexuality, gender, and queerness. They identify as White, Latinx, Indigenous American, Asian-American, Black, and multi-racial. Clients present with mild to severe acuity and a variety of presenting problems including anxiety, depression, complex trauma, mood disorders, panic, ADHD, ASD, OCD, tic disorders, disordered eating, and prodromal psychosis. -Therapy is client-centered, relational, culturally oriented, and trauma informed, utilizing an integrative lens, combining psychodynamic therapy, CBT, ACT, and motivational interviewing to meet the specific needs of each student’s case formulation and treatment plan.-I will be supervising an MSW student from January 2024-July 2024 and receiving associated training and supervision of supervisionDaily tasks include: Utilizing the PNC EHR, conducting routine and urgent intakes, conducting triage brief screen assessments and referrals, conducting ADHD assessments and feedback, attending seminars, writing up documentation and psychotherapy notes, assigning diagnoses, and consulting cross-discipline with internal and external providers like psychiatrists, case managers, and PCP’s.

San Francisco, California, United States

-Researched, documented, and pioneered the first doctoral trainee psychological assessment and therapeutic feedback supplemental practicum position at this site. -Created processes, training documents, and interpretive spreadsheets for future trainees-Integrated clinical interviews with specialized, culturally-competent cognitive and personality assessment to determine DSM-V TR/ICD-10CM diagnosis, risk level, case formulation, and treatment implications for LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected adults. -Offered culturally sensitive and ethical therapeutic feedback to clients to discuss the results of their assessments in a client-centered fashion.-Clients were adults, 20-65 years of age, low-SES, and identify as gay, lesbian, or transgender. They were White, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian-American, and Black. Clients had moderate to severe acuity and presented with a wide variety of experiences including anxiety, depression, complex trauma, mood disorders, ADHD, psychosis, personality disorders, and severe substance use disorders.-Daily tasks included: Conducting intakes and assessments (MoCA, TAT analyzed with the SCORS-G object relations framework, MCMI-IV, various symptoms measures), crisis assessment and personalized safety planning, scoring and report writing, documentation, billing, eligibility, progress notes, professional and efficient consultation and collaboration with inter-disciplinary staff.-Weekly individual supervision focused on training and conceptualization of client’s intake data while building out a broader training program at the site for future assessment trainees. Weekly, self-directed research focused on assessment administration, scoring, and multiculturally accountable report writing and therapeutic feedback.

San Francisco, California, United States

-Provided long-term, low-fee, specialty mental health care for LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected populations of California.-Conducted weekly 50-minute, one-on-one, client-centered, strengths-based, and culturally sensitive long term integrative psychotherapy to 7+ clients.-Facilitated weekly, 90-minute group therapy to 6 adult clients who identify as cisgender, gay men where we processed issues around masculinity, sex, dating, and substance use. -Therapy was client-centered, relational, trauma-informed, multicultural, and integrative, combining psychodynamic Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) and ACT with motivational interviewing to meet the specific needs of each patient’s case formulation and treatment plan. -Daily tasks included: Invoice generation and billing, psychotherapy notes, treatment plans, professional letters of support writing.-Weekly individual supervision; weekly group supervision including case presentations; weekly specialized didactics focused on working with this marginalized population.

San Francisco Bay Area

-Provided specialty, comprehensive mental health care dedicated to decreasing health disparities for the LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected populations. -Conducted weekly and biweekly 50-minute, one-on-one, client-centered, strengths-based, and culturally sensitive brief and long term integrative psychotherapy to 6-10 patients. -Facilitated weekly, 90-minute group therapy to 6 adult patients who identify as having mental health and substance use issues. -Administered pre-surgical, gender-affirming surgery assessments for trans and gender non-conforming patients. -Therapy was client-centered, relational, trauma-informed, multicultural, and integrative, combining psychodynamic Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) and CBT with motivational interviewing to meet the specific needs of each patient’s case formulation and treatment plan. -Daily tasks included: Ryan White and Medi-Cal documentation and billing, eligibility, psychotherapy notes, treatment plans, and proof of medical necessity in the ARIES and AVATAR EHR systems; administering and interpreting a battery of pre- and post-treatment psychiatric symptom questionnaires to track client progress; professional, and efficient cross-disciplinary consultation and collaboration with inhouse substance use, case management, and psychiatric services. -Weekly individual supervision; weekly group supervision including case presentations; weekly specialized didactics focused on working collaboratively with this marginalized population.

San Francisco Bay Area

Greater New York City Area

●Subject Matter Expert-Became a product expert with just a few months, on an electronic medical record, a software that takes 6 months to master on average.●Knowledge Management-Gathered and organized our team’s knowledge into one Confluence knowledge base as a one stop shop for team policies, case escalations, and product knowledge-Created 100+ pages of content on the product as well as internal team policies-Worked with other teams in our organization to create and manage standards for knowledge sharing between teams●Training and Onboarding-Created an onboarding and training curriculum for new support team hires to get them up to speed faster and prepared with all the knowledge they need to get on the phones and start taking customer calls●Standup Meeting-Created a project proposal and carried out a plan to have a daily support team standup meeting-Moderated the meeting every day for a year. -Created a standup meeting guide and trained other team members to be moderators-Tracked metrics on cases opened and touched each day to monitor our SLA●Casework Process Proposal-Created a new case workflow for the team to increase efficiency and SLA-15 minute time limit on all cases before pausing them until Lightning Round where a Subject Matter Expert can assist to unstick stuck cases-Created the concept for, and mentored as, a Lightning Round Representative-Since starting this process we have only missed our SLA a handful of days. Before this process we were missing SLA almost 100% of the time.●Team Mission and Vision-Created a proposal and executed a working group to come up with a new team mission/vision●Project Proposal Template-Created a Project Template for support team members to complete as pre-work for a project or process proposal to ensure project/process is fully thought out, communicated, and given feedback in each stage of creation

Redwood City, California, United States

-Provided weekly 45 minute one-on-one short and long term psychodynamic psychotherapy to 10 adolescents in a community school. -Other services included crisis management and risk assessment for drop-in students. -These were students who had been expelled from the regular school system for behavioral, probation, or academic reasons. -Therapy was psychodynamic, client-centered, relational, and utilized motivational interviewing and play therapy.-Took daily process notes, created case formulations and treatment plans, conducted brief mental status examinations, crisis and risk assessments, and tracked progress through GAF and CANS assessments -Training included weekly individual supervision as well as weekly group supervision and didactics with case presentations

Nyc

Seeing a need in the personal finance sector, I created, developed and marketed an innovative budget planning system called Budget Fox aimed at variable income workers, but functional for all incomes.As Founder and Coach I:●Built a budgeting app that users could run from their mobile smart phones using Google Sheets. This customized spreadsheet automatically calculates how much the user should set aside for their bills and savings each pay period and how much they have left over to safely spend until their next deposit.●Designed the website www.budgetfox.net using Square Space, injected custom HTML and CSS, and hosted the site on a third party server.●Generated a content rich blog called the “Knowledge Bank” with numerous essays on how the entire system works including articles on budgeting basics, increasing income, balancing finances, paying debt, and creating lifelong wealth and financial security.●Advised and coached more than 30 clients on their budgets over the phone and in person, checking in on their progress over the ensuing months by email and text. One client, Gretchen, raved "I just made the final payment on a mountain of credit card debt. There is NO WAY I could have done this without your help. Thanks Sam!"●Integrated scheduling software into the Budget Fox website which allowed clients to check availability and book appointments online.●Fielded customer comments and requests by email and telephone, and integrated customer suggestions into subsequent product updates.●Created and managed the company’s budget and cash flow spreadsheets.●Contracted and issued payments for services including graphic designers, software vendors, and website hosting .●I utilized Mailchimp, Facebook for Business, Google AdWords, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to market Budget Fox to targeted client demographics through social media and search engine advertising.

New York, Ny

Lido is a 125-seat Italian restaurant in Harlem, and one the highest rated restaurants in the neighborhood. I was initially brought on part-time to help get their brunches running smoothly but within three months I was promoted to a full time schedule.●On my own initiative I redesigned our scheduling and tip allocation system.●Worked with management to create the company’s first employee handbook.●In charge of pooled tip allocation at the end of each shift.●Trainer for all new employees.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Trio is a farm to table, Italian restaurant and one of the top grossing upscale/casual establishments in Salt Lake City’s downtown area. I became adept at the stress management and multitasking required to serve sections with up to 30 customers in a fast-paced environment. Within a year I was working full time on the restaurant's busiest shifts, helping to increase revenue and customer retention.●I became adept at the stress management and multitasking required to serve sections with up to 30 customers at a time. ●Layered on top of my expedient skill acquisition was an eagerness to learn everything about our food, wine and beverage menus and within a year I was working full time on the restaurant's busiest shifts, helping to increase revenue and customer retention.●I became Head Server within two years and was placed in charge of training my colleagues on our constantly rotating menu of wine, spirits, and local ingredients.●Trio paid to send me to Sonoma in 2013 to study and learn more about where and how our wine was being made. I brought that information back and taught a workshop to my fellow employees.●I became adept at using the Aloha Point of Sale system.

"sam I was" is a memoir musical I wrote, composed, and performed about my experience being diagnosed and treated for leukemia. It was workshopped among only two other projects at the Yale Institute for Musical Theater in 2009, produced in Salt Lake City in 2011, and adapted for film in 2013. ●As producer I brought together the necessary funding, actors, directors, designers and stage managers.●In charge of scheduling rehearsals with as many as 20 different people. ●Secured performance spaces and publicize the events to bring in audiences. ●Adapted the script for film then wrote and co-directed a theatrical trailer and two scenes from sam i was to showcase the project to possible investors.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Cucina is a gourmet Italian restaurant and catering company nestled in Salt Lake City’s popular Avenues neighborhood. Our catering business grew from $1.5 to $2 million a year while I was managing.●Rose from a part time barista and catering deliverer to manager within nine months. ●As manager my duties included preparing, expediting, and transporting catering for everything from 10 person birthday parties up to wedding celebrations of 300 guests or more.●Other duties included scheduling, inventory, ordering, invoicing, paying vendors, monitoring daily cash flow, making business deposits, securing the building at night, and keeping staff happy, motivated, and efficient during our busy lunch rushes.

Salt Lake City, Ut

While I was employed by them the Home Depot was the largest Home Improvement chain in America with a 58% market share from 2006-2007. The Salt Lake City store I worked at had the most profitable garden department of any store in the state.●Home Depot hired me in the spring as a part-time, seasonal worker because of my extensive gardening knowledge and customer support experience.●Within a month I had trained for and received my forklift driver’s certification.●I learned how to do retail inventory and ordering.●I trained as often as they would let me and gained knowledge about products in our entire department, including sales in high ticket items like riding lawnmowers. ●Realizing how strong my work ethic was, and how great my potential, management offered me a raise to stay on as a part of the team through the slower winter months while they laid off the other seasonal staff.

Psyd, Clinical Psychology

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Acting, 3.9 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Presidential Scholar, Minor Creative Writing