National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

Your Partner in Mental Wellness | 25+ Years of Compassionate Care

Whether you're navigating one of life's transitions, struggling with anxiety or depression, feeling 'stuck', or facing the challenges of relationships with family, friends, or a partner, I'm here to listen and support with an open heart and mind. We'll work together to reveal the path to a life that feels truly meaningful to you. Though I have worked with people struggling with a wide variety of challenges, in recent years, I have chosen to work with adults who are seeking support in coping with anxiety, depression, challenging life transitions, and those seeking a deeper understanding of themselves. I believe we all benefit from engaging in self-exploration as we navigate this one wonderful, yet complicated thing we call life. So, regardless of whether you are a long time therapy-goer or this is your first time venturing into a therapeutic space, I will meet you where you are. You set the pace.

Therapist

In this position, I provided clinical training and ongoing clinical support to over twenty social services programs across five states with a wide variety of service delivery types to ensure delivery of the highest quality of care to people supported by the organization. I also provided compassionate, reflective clinical support to organization's therapists, staff, and leaders with a focus on both personal and professional wellbeing. Here, I offered organizational support in mitigating the impact of workplace stressors on staff, including change fatigue, burnout, and low morale. A large part of the role was adapting clinical models, including established Evidence Based Practices (EBP), for implementation at community-based programs (DBT, Seeking Safety, TREM, Motivational Interviewing, ACT, IFS). Finally, I spent a great deal of time consulting with program staff and therapists on acute and/or highly complex clinical cases in their programs.


Corporate Clinical Director

In this role, I led a team of internal and external clinical consultants who provided clinical support to RHD programs, developed a Regional Clinical Collaborative for clinical peer consultation, provided clinical consultations for programs experiencing difficulties with complex clinical challenges, conducted trainings on various behavioral health conditions and complex challenges involved in treating individuals with various behavioral health conditions and participated in several clinically based committees to support clinical programs in the RHD system (e.g., Medical Ethics Committee, Consumer Sexuality Committee)


Corporate Clinical Specialist

In this role, I provided therapy and day-to-day clinical support to group home residents: eight women with severe and persistent mental illness, trained team members on principles of Person-Centered Care and required procedures to deliver optimal clinical care, completed diagnostic/biopsychosocial assessments, provided clinical supervision to direct service staff, implemented and monitored standards as required by funder and licensing entities (CARF and State of Delaware), facilitated daily groups and weekly individual sessions with residents, and assisted in preparing and monitoring 9M annual budget.


Assistant Director/Clinical Director

During my time with Kirkbride, I facilitated therapeutic groups for geriatric mental health IOP and Partial programs participants, counseled individuals and families to bring awareness of mental health challenges common in geriatric population, and guided clients in development of effective coping skills to help with feelings of loneliness, depression, boredom and other unique challenges faced by this population


Therapist, Geropsychiatry

In my very first role as a therapist, I was an in-home crisis counselor for children deemed 'Severely Emotionally Disturbed" -- a term we would never use in the industry today. In this role I used cognitive behavior therapy to assist clients in recognizing connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, assessed clinical risk and danger to children and families and determined appropriate level of response and intervention, developed service plans to maintain intact families and improve family functioning, identified risk and resiliency factors within individual youth, peer group, family, school, and community and developed strategies for intervention, collaborated with prescribing professionals to assist clients to acquire necessary medications, regularly provided emergency response in crisis situations to diffuse tensions and prevent violence and served as the Team Leader for In-Home Crisis Team of four MSW counselors.



In-home Crisis Counselor

An initial visit with a provider involves a medical history review, an assessment of your specific symptoms and concerns, and possible diagnostic tests to evaluate a patient's health, identify issues, and develop and discuss treatment options.

Intake

A follow-up visit with a provider involves checking the progress of the patient's treatment plan, assessing any new symptoms or concerns, and adjusting the treatment plan as needed to ensure optimal health outcomes.

Follow-up Visit

An opportunity for potential patients to discuss their concerns or needs with a provider, or therapist, to determine if their services are a good fit and to receive initial advice or guidance. Many providers offer free or very affordable consultation services with potential patient leads. Providers who add Free consultation as a service receives 2-3 times more prospects.

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