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➤ Effectively working with children, pre-teens, teens, adults, and elderly patients with trauma, including sexual assault victims, active and veteran military service members, and persons with PTSD.➤ Specializing in the treatment of trauma, psychosis, and sexual trauma, while screening, evaluating, and triaging potential clients to determine which services/evidence-based interventions should be offered.➤ Collecting and interpreting data from patient studies and personal histories to develop a picture of how trauma histories affect their reactions to care professionals, including administering a Caregiver Strain Assessment.➤ Setting-up the office to reduce potentially triggering or otherwise distressing stimuli that can induce counterproductive emotional reactions, ensuring an environment of emotional and physical safety.➤ Serving as one of the few Forensic Psychologists who offer full psychological assessment services, as well as aiding in legal cases as an Expert Witness, in addition to providing legal consultation and testimony for jury trials.➤ Promoting and reinforcing socially acceptable behaviors, self-esteem, and healthy boundaries, and teaching thoughtful decision-making skills, while sharing in the success as trauma victims overcome their past.

➤ Managing up to 20+ patients at any given time within a crisis bed Department in the Hospital, ensuring optimal outcomes during a crisis and in sometimes chaotic situations through ability to act under pressure.➤ Successfully working as part of a multidisciplinary team to stabilize patients in crisis by conducting individual therapy, and providing short-term, stabilizing counseling, treatment planning, and appropriate referrals.➤ Selecting, administering, and interpreting psychological tests, in addition to consulting with medical personnel regarding the findings of medical examinations, and making recommendations on admission, transfer, discharge, and therapy.➤ Working collaboratively with the clinical team towards overall program development and enhancing clinical services, including developing a multimodal treatment for sex offenders, and auditing files for QA.➤ Providing intervention, weekly individual and group therapy, specialized treatment (i.e. EMDR, SOT, etc.), and discharge planning, as well as participating in interdisciplinary team evaluations, and consultation with the Psychiatrists, Nursing and additional staff based on medical necessity.➤ Participating in and contributing to the Quality Improvement Team, Suicide Prevention Committee, Mental Health Subcommittee, Coordinated Clinical Assessment Team, and Executive Team meetings.➤ Effectively providing training and education to Clinicians and forensic psychiatry residents in the procedures for conducting emergency psychiatric evaluations, as well as for testifying as an expert witness.➤ Performing Clinical Audit Tool surveys within specified time frames, to ensure the provision of constitutionally appropriate levels of mental health treatment within the clinically least restrictive environment.

➤ Successfully managing daily program operations and administrative functions, including creating and maintaining a treatment schedule, as well as bringing in new clients and contracts, consistently expanding annual revenue.➤ Utilizing best practices for staff recruiting, selection, training, and firing, building a strong team comprised of Psychosis and Mood Disorder Specialists, Psychologists, and Clinicians.➤ Effectively managing additional HR functions, including providing weekly supervision and education to unlicensed staff, meeting regularly to provide feedback, quality assessments, and improvement trainings.➤ Regularly measuring and evaluating effectiveness and quality of treatment procedures to achieve standards and objectives, driving the mission to improve the lives of individuals, their families, and members of the larger community.➤ Facilitating collection of data for analysis and Quality Improvements, as well as growth and development with regards to improvements in program curriculum and treatment based upon the growing needs of the program and community.➤ Addressing patient issues that are preventing growth, including attacking the infrastructure on which the conflict, psychological problem, or mental illness is based, within a secure, protected, and safe environment.

Owner – Non-Profit – PresentAssociate Behavior Consultant – People's Care – 2017 to 2018Mental Health Professional, Residential Treatment Unit – Greensville Correctional Center (GRCC) – 2012 to 2013Mental Health Professional, Sex Offender Residential Treatment – Greensville Correctional Center (GRCC) – 2012 to 2013Mental Health Professional, General Population – Greensville Correctional Center (GRCC) – 2012 to 2013Mental Health Professional, General Population & Receptions – Brunswick Reception & Classification Center for Women – 2012 to 2013Case Manager & Qualified Mental Health Professional – Turning Point Crisis Center for Chronically Ill Adults – 2011 to 2012Mental Health Provider & Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Counselor – San Diego Youth Services (SDYS) – 2010 to 2011

➤ Received a promotion into a brand-new position created specifically to restructure the way TXT was being rendered to MDO, MDSO, and patients diagnosed with cognitive/intellectual deficits.➤ Begin restructuring and rewriting curriculum in order to increase treatment options, focusing on patients classified as not able to participate in traditional treatment due these deficits that were secondary to mental illness, TBI, Autism, and low academic achievement.➤ Continued to provide staff trainings throughout DSH, as well as led the MDO Staff Training, educating all incoming staff on a monthly basis, and ensured coverage for trainings and retraining of persons, groups, and Departments.➤ Successfully contributed to the development and approval of Hospital-wide treatment, education, and curriculums as a member of the Hospital Curriculum Committee.➤ Worked to develop standardized sex offender treatment for persons identified as having intellectual or cognitive deficits, for implementation across treatment settings including hospital, corrections, community programs.➤ Efficiently researched and presented empirically validated best practices for treatment of specialized populations in a State hospital and corrections setting.➤ Integrated optimal methods for the assessment of risk and treatment management into the curriculum, utilizing Static-99R and SOTIPS, while conducting regular observations of staff and providing differentiated coaching.

➤ Provided staff trainings throughout DSH, emphasizing rapport building, de-escalation, transference, and countertransference.➤ Served as the New Employee Orientation (NEO) Training Facilitator, as well as coached Mental Health clinicians, Custody and Nursing staff, and Police on best practices for engaging with and treating mentally disordered persons.➤ Specialized in de-escalation techniques, earning a certificate from the State of California for creating a treatment plan and curriculum that reduced aggressive acts, staff alarm activations, and increased patient participation in treatment.➤ Participated in weekly Program Review Committee and Enhanced Treatment Review Committee meetings to strategize therapeutic interventions for patients who needed extra behavioral support on a program level and other treatment options.➤ Effectively provided evidence-based assessment, treatment, re-entry/release planning services, and management of chronically ill adults, including MDOs presenting with high frequency of problematic behaviors.➤ Facilitated psychotherapeutic groups for high and low functioning patients including IMR, DBT, Cognitive Enhancement, Stages of Change Substance Abuse Recovery, RPC, Anger Management, and Sex Offender Treatment.➤ Prepared and reviewed short- and long-term diagnostic and treatment plans, goals, along with objectives, adjusting for crisis management, as well as administered, scored, and interpreted a variety of Assessments.