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LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
Professional Summary
I have extensive experience overseeing and directing a department of 5 staff in different locations. I am organized and successful at managing multiple priorities while maintaining a strong work ethic and exhibiting a positive attitude. I am a Mental Health Counselor with skill in leading situation-specific counseling sessions. I Expertise in working with children and adults in crisis.
Skills
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Work History
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, 03/2009 to Current
Merakey – State College , PA
Merakey – State College , PA
- Provide individual, family and couples counseling in a private practice setting. Clients treated are adolescents and adults. Guide clients in effective therapeutic exercises integrated from Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, 11/2008 to Current
Merakey – Stroudsburg , PA
Merakey – Stroudsburg , PA
- Duties include providing individual therapy, group, therapy, family therapy and crisis intervention to adolescents who are admitted to the Adolescent Day Treatment Program at the BOCES BETA Site; coordinating with various community professionals to help provide services to clients on caseload; completing intake interviews and assessments and clinical assessments.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, 04/2008 to 11/2008
Merakey – Bellefontaine , OH
Merakey – Bellefontaine , OH
- Duties include providing individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy and crisis intervention to adolescents who were admitted to St. Cabrini Home, Inc.; coordinating with various community professionals to help provide services to clients on caseload; completing intake interviews and assessments and clinical assessments.
CONNECTIONS Implementation Coordinator, 01/2005 to 11/2008
Highmark Inc. – Sharpsburg , PA
Highmark Inc. – Sharpsburg , PA
- Duties include monitoring CONNECTIONS system, assisting CONNECTIONS users with software problems, training new users to navigate CONNECTIONS system, maintaining CONNECTIONS units, maintaining staff security, assigning cases, and assigning new employees on CONNECTIONS.
Coordinator of Special Projects, 10/2002 to 04/2008
Common Spirit – Cleveland , TN
Common Spirit – Cleveland , TN
- Primary duties include directing the intake department, completing intake and clinical assessments to place adolescents in residential and group home level settings; duties also include assigning caseloads to intake workers and hiring and supervising a staff of workers in several different locations; developing and facilitating employee training such as gang training, DBT training, and others.
- Auxiliary duties include developing the St.Cabrini Home Human Sexuality Curriculum, developing St. Cabrini Home's Independent Living Skills Curriculum, creating and monitoring tracking system for restraint and behavioral incident reports, preparing Independent Living Skills budget, preparing Substance Abuse budget, Medicaid billing for OASAS Chemical Dependency Clinic, word processing, computer technician, preparing Annual reports, and completing Family Services Intakes for new admissions.
Senior Intake Coordinator, 10/1998 to 10/2002
ST. CABRINI HOME, INC – City , STATE
ST. CABRINI HOME, INC – City , STATE
- Primary duties include supervising intake department and coordinators, reviewing referrals, interviewing potential clients, placing clients in one of three programs, completing admissions and intake assessments.
- Auxiliary duties include creating a tracking and monitoring system for restraint reports, cross training for Quality Assurance, creating referral tracking system, word processing, and preparing Annual reports.
Therapeutic Social Worker, 12/1995 to 10/1998
ABBOTT HOUSE – City , STATE
ABBOTT HOUSE – City , STATE
- Duties included individual therapy for foster children, case counseling for foster children and their foster parents, training of prospective foster parents, and facilitating foster parent support groups to therapeutic foster parents.
Clinical Social Worker, 12/1994 to 12/1995
Pius XII – City , STATE
Pius XII – City , STATE
- Duties include individual, group, play and family therapy, crisis intervention, supervising college and graduate interns, interviewing new clients, teaching Independent Living Skills, behavior modification, casework, word processing and UCR writing in a group home setting.
Clinical Social Worker and Family Service Worker, 01/1994 to 09/1995
Pius XII – City , STATE
Pius XII – City , STATE
- Duties include individual, group, play and family therapy, crisis intervention, interviewing and counseling biological families, teaching Independent Living Skills, behavior modification, casework, word processing and UCR writing in a residential setting.
Education
Master of Arts: Community/Counseling Psychology, 1994
MARIST COLLEGE - City, State
COMMUNITY/COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
MARIST COLLEGE - City, State
COMMUNITY/COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
BACHELOR OF ARTS: Dutchess COMMUNITY/COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, 1 1994
Marist College - City, State
Marist College - City, State
Bachelor of Arts: Community/Counseling Psychology, 1991
Mount Saint Mary College - City, State
Mount Saint Mary College - City, State
Accomplishments
- 10 years experience in being supervisor and director of a department. Trained in Dialectical Behavioral Treatment. Trained to treat adolescents who commit sexual harm. Trained in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Trained in client centered treatment. Trained in Motivational Interviewing. Trained to treat individuals who have engaged in self-injury. Trained to treat suicidal adolescents and adults. Trained in Cooperative Problem Solving Experienced in treating gay, lesbian and transgendered individuals.
Certifications
- Sexual Harm Counselor Advanced Training, May 2014 · Resources for Resolving Violence, Inc. · Advanced Training Certification Course · Trained in treating adolescents who commit sexual harm.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, February 2014 · Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants · Trained in treating adolescents using DBT
- Sexual Harm Counselor Training, December 2008 · Resources for Resolving Violence, Inc. · Certification Course · Trained in treating adolescents who commit sexual harm.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training, August 2006 · Behavioral Tech, LLC · Trained in DBT and trained to be a trainer.
- Independent Living Coordinator, December 1995 · Stonybrook, School of Social Welfare · Trained in teaching
- Independent Living Skills Adventure Based Counseling Program Training, May 1995 · Deer Hill Training Center · Trained as Adventure Based Counselor
Skills
billing, budget, computer technician, counseling, Clients, directing, hiring, Quality
Assurance, supervising, teaching, employee training, word processing, Annual reports
Additional Information
- CERTIFICATIONS/ LICENSES New York State Licensed Mental Health Counselor License No: 001137 Date of Licensure: 03/25/06 New York State National Provider Identifier NPI number: 1942512181 Enumeration Date: 07/03/2010
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School Attended
- MARIST COLLEGE
- Marist College
- Mount Saint Mary College
Job Titles Held:
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor
- CONNECTIONS Implementation Coordinator
- Coordinator of Special Projects
- Senior Intake Coordinator
- Therapeutic Social Worker
- Clinical Social Worker
- Clinical Social Worker and Family Service Worker
Degrees
- Master of Arts : Community/Counseling Psychology , 1994
BACHELOR OF ARTS : Dutchess COMMUNITY/COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY , 1 1994
Bachelor of Arts : Community/Counseling Psychology , 1991
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