Clinical Supervisor at Lilac Center (2023-01 – Present)
- Supervise and evaluate six clinical staff to ensure effective counseling and client interactions.
- Lead weekly meetings with clinical staff to discuss client cases, provide support, and offer professional guidance.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to discuss staff, training, and client concerns.
- Conduct 25 counseling sessions a week with adult patients experiencing depression, anxiety, and personality disorders.
- Provide Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients with borderline personality disorders, which improves emotions, relationships, and self-esteem, and reduces suicidal ideation.
- Complete additional counseling sessions for staff unable to fulfill daily responsibilities due to illness and scheduled time-off.
- Build rapport and provide quality counseling services, which produced a high client retention rate.
Licensed Master's Social Worker at Shadow Wood Clinical Associates (2020-01 – Present)
- Offer individual therapy to 40 clients and conduct 65 sessions a month, utilizing evidence-based interventions to promote successful outcomes.
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients in private practice to provide ongoing mental health services.
- Provide comprehensive treatment plans and assessments.
- Increase outcomes and obtain client goals by applying behavioral health principles and methods of treatment.
- Establish therapeutic alliances with patient's families to improve client support systems and interactions.
- Consult with psychiatrists to provide medication recommendations and provide a deeper understanding of client's conditions, mental illnesses, and treatment plans.
- Support students experiencing emotional and social issues by working with school counselors to offer coping skills intended to improve academic outcomes, interactions, and self-esteem.
Psychology Adjunct Professor at Washburn University (2022-09 – 2022-12)
- Taught an Introduction to Psychology course to 44 undergraduate students and provided assignments that increased psychology education and expanded real life awareness of the field.
- Offered office hours to assist students with coursework and provide mentoring.
- Guided and facilitated classroom discussions and provided theory to real life examples, which enhanced students understanding of diagnosis and treatment options.
- Improved classroom performance by providing test preparation and tutoring sessions.
- Utilized multimedia and models to illustrate various psychology topics, which enhanced instruction.
- Received high student performance evaluations, which led to receiving an offer to teach in the Spring of 2022.
Licensed Master's Social Worker at Counseling Resources, Inc. (2021-01 – 2022-12)
- Traveled to nursing homes throughout Kansas to conduct counseling with elderly and Alzheimer's patients suffering from depression, anxiety, grief, and personality disorders.
- Conducted cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), clinically proven to reduce mental health symptoms such as depression and anxiety disorders.
- Provided bereavement and grief therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to treat mood and personality disorders.
- Delivered psychoeducation to increase knowledge of therapy treatment and goals, in addition to improving coping mechanisms.
- Worked with Alzheimer's patients to provide supportive therapy and active listening designed to improve self-esteem, reduce stress, and negative thinking, and effectively handle daily challenges.
- Treated clients with personality disorders, suicidal ideation, and self-harm by conducting dialectical behavioral therapy (BDT).
- Increased coping capabilities by offering solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) to solve problems of living by promoting health and wellness and client's strengths.
Social Worker at Shawnee Health Department (2020-01 – 2021-12)
- Conducted home visits and health assessments to pregnant and infant clients to determine health needs, provide education, offer guidance, and lend support.
- Implemented First Step Program guidelines and delivered quality care to ensure continuous improvement and positive outcomes.
- Provided case management by interviewing clients, conducting biopsychosocial histories, and providing needs assessments.
- Identified and eliminated physical, emotional, and social barriers to promote social support and quality health care.
- Determined baseline of various health conditions including smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, and depression by completing statistical reports and surveys.
- Led and participated in postpartum and infant training programs.
- Communicated effectively with multicultural and non-English speaking clients by providing caring and supportive interactions and utilizing an interpreter with select clients.
- Collaborated with internal and external teams to ensure effective social services and program guidelines were met.
- Improved the financial status of individual clients by creating budgets, providing education, and discussing community resources.
Clinical Psychologist and Medical Social Worker at Midland Care Connection (2017-01 – 2020-12)
- Collaborated with physicians, social workers, and counselors to develop care plans and treat adults suffering from depression, anxiety, dementia, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and adjustment/personality disorders.
- Served as a Clinical Psychologist by conducting individual counseling, providing psychological assessments, and diagnosing mental disorders.
- Provided crisis intervention to prevent suicide ideation and plans.
- Offered clinical supervision to Master of Social Work Students, which increased assessment, diagnosis, and treatment knowledge.
- Recipient of excellent supervisory evaluations.
- Delivered emotional, psychological, and intellectual functioning education, which improved quality of life and daily living skills.
- Enhanced communications, provided support, and conducted problem solving with families to provide a holistic treatment approach.
Post-Master's Social Worker at Shadow Wood Clinical Associates (2017-01 – 2020-12)
- Provided therapeutic alliance and counseling under the supervision of Carol M. Jolly, Renowned Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- Presented weekly cases to discuss and develop effective treatment plans and modalities.
- Reviewed patient's complex medical problems and psychiatric illnesses with Ms. Jolly, improving therapy outcomes.
- Worked with adult trauma, abuse survivors, and low self-esteem clients to increase coping and management.
- Advocated for clients to ensure proper health care services.
- Attended educational workshops and conferences, which enhanced clinical psychology knowledge.
Therapeutic Case Manager at KVC Behavioral Healthcare (2017-01 – 2017-12)
- Provided effective case management of 50 children and youth placed in foster care programs and obtained a 75% in-home reintegration rate.
- Performed assessments on children, adolescents, and adults and developed valuable case management plans.
- Supervised a Family Case Worker to implement social service programs.
- Conducted crisis intervention, while performing on-call assignments.
