Walter Morrison Email & Phone Number

Private Practice – and State College, Pa. - Substance Abuse - Mental Health - Relationship Counseling - Student Issues - Extensive Experience in Forensic/Legal Cases

State College, Pennsylvania

Professionally Licenced Private Practice specializing in Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Family, and Student Issues. Extensive experience in Forensic/Legal Cases. Fully Licenced PA Outpatient Facility.

Addiction, Dual Diagnosis, Student Assistance Program Counselor 1999 – 2002Caseload of 30 to 35 clients; a mixture of adult D&A, dual diagnosis and adolescent youth-at-riskInterfacing between clients and the Centre County Base Service Unit (D&A and MH/MR), parole and probation officers (county and state), rehabilitation hospitals, managed care providers, and Pennsylvania Medical AssistanceIndividual, group and family therapy provided

All of the above responsibilities including marketing, contract management, program development and expansion of servicesHiring, training and maintaining all aspects of a Pennsylvania Department of Health Outpatient Drug and Alcohol facility Supervision of all fiscal, financial, and billing operations Supervision of all clinical aspects of the outpatient facilityJuly 2002 – July 2003 Walter B. Morrison - Addictions TherapistPrivate Practice – Bellefonte Pa. Participating in a full range of addictions, youth-at-risk, family and codependency counseling servicesOffice - based and mobile therapy

Clinical supervision of 6 to 8 full and part-time counselorsStaff training and coordinationClient assessment and assignment to appropriate counselor and level of careCoordination of support staff and facility management

Consistent caseload of 30 to 35 clients - county, private, and medical-assistance fundedInterfacing and reporting responsibility, between client and Centre County Base Service Unit, school guidance counselors, Centre County Probation/Parole Department, Centre County Children and Youth Services, and various other social support servicesCounseling duties in areas of D&A, SAP (Student Assistance Program), family therapy and education, career rehabilitation assistance (through coordination with Pa. Office Of Vocational Rehabilitation)Have supervised Masters-level interns from the Penn State Rehabilitation Counseling-Chemical Dependency Program

at Cove Forge Williamsburg, Pa. Adolescent Residential Treatment Facility CounselorFull casemanagement, counseling and therapy responsibilities for a 10 patient adolescent caseloadOne daily 2 hour group counseling sessionFour to five daily individual counseling sessions2 to 3 weekly family counseling sessionsParent to facility interfacing responsibilityPatient to facility interfacing responsibilitiesFacility to county casemanger interfacing responsibilitiesFacility and patient to county CAASP interfacing responsibilities Designed and then co-facilitated the drug education program for the adolescent residential treatment facility

Masters Degree; M.Ed;, Counselor Education - Chemical Dependence Emphasis

Activities and Societies: Honors FraternityMaster Paper and specialization studies in working with the Offender/Ex-offender population

Education record

Licensed Professional Counselor Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State – Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs.

Ba - Political Science Ba - American Studies - M.Ed. Counselor Education, M.Ed Counselor Education With A Chemical Dependency Emphasis

B.A, Political Science

BA Political Science BA American Studies Minor Quanitative Analysis with Computer Applications

B.A, Pre-Law Political Science

to be awarded 1993 in the Major of American Studies but a records mistake held it up. The American Studies program was then folded.

Ba, American Studies