professional resume

Education

  • Master of Arts in Counseling, Towson University, Towson, MD

  • Bachelor of Science, Towson University, Towson MD

▪ Participant for Psychology Department’s Study Abroad Program to South Africa Summer 2018

Professional memberships

Counseling and Mental Health Experience

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor -

Sacred Crow Counseling & Consulting

  • Owner and operator of telehealth and in-person psychotherapy practice

  • Provide eclectic psychotherapy services to individuals, families, and teenagers struggling with complex trauma, mood

    disorders, eating disorders, and issues related to stress and emotional regulation

  • Counsel from a humanistic, existential, feminist perspective and primarily work using skills and strategies from Brainspotting

    Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Gestalt Therapy, and logotherapy along with movement and somatic-based interventions

    in order to facilitate holistic, embodied healing

  •  Routine management of client scheduling, benefits checks, and billing as well as other administrative duties

  • Creation, management, and facilitation of community events and workshops (i.e. clinician networking events, clinician

    appreciation events, Mindful Mountain Queers hiking group, vision board workshops)

  •  Developed website and social media platforms, and continue to create psychoeducational content for all virtual platforms

  • Organized and facilitate a free monthly peer supervision group for therapists within the local community as well as clinicians

    in other states and countries

  • Developed psychoeducational worksheets, handouts, exercises, etc. for clients as well as clinicians in the area

  • Offer pro bono and sliding scale fees along with providing flexible rates based on a client’s financial situation or changing

    needs

Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor, Community Engagement Coordinator - Bwell Counseling Services

  • Provide comprehensive psychotherapy to children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults using a trauma-competent and person-centered approach

  •  Incorporates aspects of Mindfulness-Based CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Somatic Experiencing into therapeutic work with clients

  •  Assist clients in re-processing trauma stemming from childhood abuse, sexual assault, IPV, and unexpected loss in order to improve mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, and decrease PTSD symptoms

  • Developed and presented a seminar open to the Baltimore community addressing Technology Overuse in children and teens

  • Engage in individual and group supervision with a licensed providers

  • Maintains treatment planning, scheduling, and electronic billing through an electronic medical record

  • Community Engagement Coordinator for B’well entails continued creation, maintenance, and organization of B’well

    therapist/medication provider/alternative and holistic practitioner referral list, community outreach (i.e. consultation and community connection with other professionals, expanding B’well professional network), and facilitation of quarterly community offerings for clients and clinicians through collaborative projects and workshops with other mental health professionals outside of B’well.

  • Offers Prono Bono Counseling services through the Pro Bono Counseling Project, and offers sliding scale services through the Open Path Collective

  •  Participant in a monthly Brainspotting Therapy consultation group

Phone Counselor, Baltimore County Crisis Response System, Timonium, Maryland

  • De-escalate individuals of all age groups and demographics in crises ranging from situational to chronic mental illness

  • Implement suicide prevention strategies, assessment, and intervention techniques after triaging incoming calls and screening

    for severity and needs

  • Maintain knowledge of community resources for mental health, benefits and entitlements, case management, housing, and financial needs

  • Assess clients ADLs and judgment to determine safety in given scenarios for decompensation, dispatching the Mobile Crisis Team (MCT) or 911 as needed for intervention and for possible Emergency Petition

  • Coordinate client care with a multidisciplinary team, and support other functions of BCCRS including the Mobile Crisis Team and In Home Intervention Team by providing up to date information and documentation via electronic medical record

  • Communicate effectively with 911 dispatchers and other crisis hotlines about incoming and outgoing calls

Graduate Counseling Intern, House of Ruth Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

  • Provided person-centered, affirming psychotherapy to male and female victims of intimate partner violence from a feminist,

    multicultural perspective

  • Provide IPV/DV psychoeducation of trauma-symptom management, safety planning, and coping skills

  • Co-facilitated a weekly Women’s Victim Support Group of 10 participants ranging on topics from recovering from various

    types of abuse, legal information,

  • Administered Lethality Assessment and the Modified PTSD Symptom Assessment

  • Linked clients with supportive services in the community (i.e. financial assistance through non-profits as well as county and

    city government funded programs, furniture assistance, food pantries, clothing drives)

  • Received training on and employed tenets of conducted Eye Movement Desensitization and Reintegration and the Emotional

    Freedom Technique

  • Created a formalized Suicide Assessment and information packet to be distributed to therapists as well as prospective

    graduate interns

  • Co-facilitated a male and female victim empowerment group that was partnered with Baltimore Center Stage

Mental Health Worker, The Center for Eating Disorders (CED), Towson, Maryland

  • Provided direct patient care services in accordance with a treatment plan to assist clients with meal completion, symptom

    management and stabilization, crisis intervention, and mental status evaluations

  • Engaged in one-on-one therapeutic staff talks with patients in order to assess mood, safety, and patient’s involvement in the

    recovery process

  • Created a “Performance Improvement Committee” which sought to improve the quality of patient care by creating new

    policies and procedures to replace faulty and dated aspects of the program

Undergraduate Intern, Wellspring Counseling, Towson, Maryland

  • Experience administering, interpreting, scoring, and analyzing results of various psychological assessments (Harrison Assessment, Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory 2, The Enneagram Personality Assessment, and the Draw A Person Assessment

Nov. 2021-Present

July 2019-Nov. 2021

July 2016-Aug. 2019

July 2018-May 2019

April 2016-April 2017

May 2015-Aug. 2015

Professional Development

  • "Psychedelics in Monotheistic Traditions: Sacramental Practice and Legal Recognition" - Symposium at Harvard Law School, In-person Volunteer and Participant

  • Vital Psychedelic Certification Program, Psychedelics Today, Online Certification Course

  • Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 2 with Janina Fisher PESI Institute, Online Training

  • Certified Prepare and Enrich Facilitator , Noelle Benach Counseling and Consulting, Online Training

  • Successful Collaboration B/t Therapists & Dietitians with “Complicated” Clients, Timberline Knolls

  • Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 with Janina Fisher PESI Institute Online Training

  • The Body Keeps the Score Trauma Healing with Bessel van der Kolk, PESI Institute

  • Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling, Therapy with Doggo - Annalisa Smithson, Online Training

  • Body Image Online Training for Clinicians, Marci Evans and Fiona Sutherland, Online Course/Training

  • Brainspotting and Beyond - BSP in Spirituality and Religion, Cynthasis Counseling, Online Training

  • Brainspotting International Conference, David Grand, Online Training

  • Trauma & Attachment: Effective Tx Strategies for Individuals and Families, Essential Therapy Trainings

  • Brainpotting Therapy Master Class, Dr. David Grand, Online Training

  • Introduction to Sex Therapy for General Therapists, Diana Melnick, Online Training

  • Addressing Guilt and Shame with Traumatized Clients:Using Parts Work and Expressive Modalities, The Ferentz Instituite, Online Trainining

  • Treatment of Internalized Racism and Anti-Blackness: Implications for Clinical Practice, University of Michigan, Online

  • EFT: The Science and Benefits Seminar attendee, True Balance Counseling, Online Training

  • Certified Brainspotting Practitioner

    • Completed Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Brainspotting training under Christine Ranck, PhD

  • Somatic Movement Summit Attendee, The Shift Network, Online Conference

    • Attended a five day intensive somatic movement conference hosted by The Shift Network

    • Gained insight, knowledge, and practical application of somatic and body-based interventions

  • Certificate Program in TeleMental Health and Digital Ethics, ZUR Training Institute, Online Training March 16, 2020

    • Completed an online certification program in Telehealth that addressed the following:

      • TeleMental Health: Practical Applications for Delivering Psychotherapy and Counseling via Telehealth

      • TeleMental Health: The New Standard - Ethical, Legal, Clinical, Technological, and Practice Considerations

      • Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists: Clinical and Ethical Considerations

  • ‘Silence Stops Violence’ and Brainspotting Presentation, House of Ruth Maryland, Baltimore, MD

  • Vision Board Workshop, Krista Verrastro and BeMoreMindful Counseling, Towson, MD

  • The Truth About Medical Marijuana, MD Addiction and Recovery Center, Towson, MD

  • Health at Every Size in Clinical Practice, Garnering for Change and B’well Counseling Services

  • Pro Bono Clinician Orientation, Pro Bono Counseling Project, Riderwood, MD

  • Couples Work & Why it Matters in Modern Times, Garnering Change Psychotherapy, Towson, MD

  • Working w/ Consensually Non-Monogomous Clients, Garnering Change Psychotherapy, Towson, MD

  • Presenter/Attendee, National Multicultural Conference and Summit, Denver, Colorado

    • Presented a group project that investigated the prevalence of food insecurity among Towson University students

      • Project entailed the creation of an online survey through Qualtrics that assessed the prevalence of food insecurity and

        evaluated the barriers that students faced to obtaining quality, affordable food that yielded 887 participants within 6 weeks; in addition the group held a tabling event in which students were informed about supportive services through the university, and were provided with psycho-education on food insecurity as well as affordable, healthy meals that could be prepared in a dorm room; lastly the group facilitated the first meeting of a multidisciplinary team focused on addressing food insecurity at Towson University that led to institutional changes

      • As presenters, students led a roundtable discussion at the NMCS to educate peers and professionals on food insecurity, and shared results from the group project

  • Mandated Reporter Training, Baltimore Child Abuse Center (BCAC), Baltimore, Maryland

  • Technology-Facilitated Commercial Sexual Exploitation Training, BCAC, Baltimore, Maryland

  • Vicarious Trauma and Building Resiliency Training, BCAC, Baltimore, Maryland

  • Co-Occurring Disorders: Assessment & Treatment Seminar, Affiliated Santé Group, Arnold, MD

  • An Informative Seminar with Glennon Doyle Melton, CED, Towson, Maryland

  • CBT for Trauma Treatment Seminar, PESI Inc., Timonium, Maryland

  • Certified Mental Health Advocate, Towson University, Towson, Maryland

  • National Allegiance for the Mentally Ill Member, Towson University, Towson, Maryland,
    ▪ Participant in a nationally recognized chapter that advocates for the rights of the mentally ill by reinforcing the importance of recovery, resiliency, and support

Research Experience

Volunteer Research Assistant, Dr. Sandra Llera’s Anxiety Lab, Towson, Maryland Dec. 2014-Aug. 2016

  • Assisted with two studies that examined the relationship between various attachment patterns, symptoms of rumination and worry, and whether such processes are used as experiential avoidance as individuals maintain Emotional Contrast Avoidance in preparation for two accredited psychology conferences, The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA)

  • Assisted with cleaning data sets for roughly 350 participants in SPSS

  • Gained knowledge about structural equation modeling and how it was used to test hypothesized transdiagnostic model of

    emotion dysregulation using MPLUS

  • Assisted with conducting a serial mediation analysis using PROCESS

  • Actively participated in weekly lab meetings discussing the studies being conducted within the lab group

  • Completed Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) certification for utilizing human subjects in research

  • Trained incoming research assistants on study protocol and procedures