Sofia Collins Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California

I provide affordable mental health and substance abuse services, as well as LGBTQQI-focused care. I conduct individual, couples, and group-therapy sessions.

San Francisco Bay Area

I provide free one-on-one and group therapy services for students at San Francisco's KZV Armenian School, grades Pre-K through eighth grade. In addition, I write up and manage all of their individualized treatment plans, work with teachers and staff to provide a strong, safe, and compassionate community within the school, and meet with parents to allow greater support and care within the family-system.

San Francisco, California

As a Counselor, I provided free individual, couples, and group counseling sessions for Episcopal Community Services'​ formerly-homeless residents. I strove to create and provide a safe, supportive, and empathic environment for my clients to work through and share their presenting issues in our sessions. Over the course of my year at E.C.S., I worked with individuals with a wide range of diagnosis and presenting issues. I also lead a Creative Expressions Teen Therapy Group, focusing on a myriad of topics including gangs, drug use, sex and relationships, academic issues, body image, and self-care. During each group-meeting the teens participated in bonding exercises, group and dyad discussions, and creative-expression activities (drawing, journaling, song and poem-writing, and painting) all focused around the day's topic as well as self-care, which was incorporated into every group-meeting. As a Clinical Intern/Counselor, I administered intake assessments, created treatment plans, and came up with diagnoses for each of my clients. I also worked with a team of fellow interns, Supervisors, and Case Managers to ensure ethical and legal competency and the ultimate welfare of the client. I also had conducted several Case Presentations for E.C.S. on my clients.

Laurel St. Center, Santa Cruz, California

As a counselor, I was in charge of working each day with either one or three clients, all of whom were diagnosed with a developmental and behavioral disorder. Clients, depending on how high-functioning they were, would need assistance in social situations, spending and managing their money, feeding, transportation, wheelchair-use, restroom-use, changing, participating in both individual and group activities, and completing their Individual Program Plans. Client-diagnosis ranged dramatically, including individuals with very high-functioning Autistic-Spectrum Disorders, low-functioning Mental Retardation Spectrum, Epilepsy and other Seizure Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, and Schizophrenia. To be part of our Day Program, however, all of our clients had to have a diagnosis of at least one Behavioral Disorder. As a result, I was trained in prevention and management of aggression as well as how to safely and effectively restrain a violent client. I was also trained how to use a communication-assistance computer, or a "Talker", how to work with emotional-support animals, and how to work with someone as they are both having and recovering from a seizure.After learning that none of my adult clients had never attended a health or sexual-education class, I proposed to the company that we provide such education, as many of my clients were wanting information around relationship and sexuality issues. After writing up a curriculum, I lead two 15-week long Sexual Education, Healthy Relationships, and Overall-Health classes, one for our female and one for our male clients. Each class was once a week, three hours each, and consisted of myself, one co-facilitator, and anywhere from 6 to 8 high-functioning, adult, clients.I was also a driver for the company, and thus was in charge of both picking up and dropping off 5-10 clients at a time, before and after our Day-Program, at their homes using the company vans.

Uc Santa Cruz'S Sexual Assault, Facts, And Education Program (S.A.F.E)

As the Support Group's Facilitator, I provided a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, abusive relationships, and stalking. I lead group sessions (comprised of anywhere from 3-12 group members) once a week on UC Santa Cruz's campus. Each session's discussions and activities were built around that particular session's theme. All of the session's themes were based upon common issues that survivors face, such as PTSD, healthy vs. unhealthy boundaries, building trust again, and self-care. Overall, the groups provided a sense of community, educated members about issues that they were facing, and introduced them to healthy coping and self-care skills, so as to help aid the group-members through their healing process.

Uc Santa Cruz, Student Health Outreach Program (Shop)

In this position, I provided UCSC students with free and anonymous H.I.V. testing, using OraQuick's rapid oral-swab testing kits. During the 20 minutes for the test to process, I conducted a risk-assessment of the student and provided information and answers to questions about issues around sexuality, sexual health, H.I.V, the testing window-period, information about other S.T.I.'s, consent, sexual-assault, gender, contraception options, drug and alcohol use, and relationships. At the end of the test's processing-time, I would give the student their H.I.V. test's results. Throughout the year, and with all of my clients, I worked to keep my office a safe, non-judgemental, and sex-positive space.

Aptos, California

In the fall of 2011 I began at P.T. C as voluntary Clinical-Intern, where I assisted and co-lead both the individual and group Occupational and Speech Therapy sessions. In sessions I worked with children aged 2-12 with a variety of developmental disorders, assisting them with issues around feeding, socializing, problems in school or with homework, managing behavioral outbursts, and much more. After a year as an intern, in the fall of 2012, I was hired-on as the clinic's part-time Front Office Manager. In this position I was in charge of all the front-desk work, scheduling clients into our TPS scheduling database, handling session payments, assessing client's insurance-eligibility, and welcoming clients into our clinic. In the Spring of 2013 I was promoted to Head Clinical Aide. In this position I was in charge of the clinic's scheduling, room-assignment, recruitment and hiring of interns and volunteers, scheduling and managing the interns and volunteers, assisting and co-leading both individual and group sessions in Occupational and Speech Therapy, and managing the clinic's petty-cash spending and balance.

Master’S Degree, Counseling Psychology, Emphasis In Marriage And Family Therapy

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology

Graduated with Honors.