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Summary
Mental Health Director with 16 years of progressive experience including managing busy non-profit mental health clinic. Deliver positive patient experience through administration of top-quality care. Skilled in conflict resolution, records oversight and working well on treatment teams.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mental Health Director
Naphcare
Cincinnati, OH
09.2018 - Current
- Participate on the agency management team which leads over sixty clinicians, psychiatric staff, Department of Youth Services staff, recovery program staff and administrative support staff.
- Lead bi-weekly clinical staff meetings.
- Address client concerns and complaints.
- Supervise 23 clinicians with average case loads of 40 plus clients each.
- Coordinate care for clients needing mental health services with our psychiatric providers.
- Oversee case planning and management of client's electronic health records.
- Supervise LPC interns, and MSW clinicians toward licensure.
- Lead mental health program development to increase services for vulnerable populations.
- Sit on several community committees and sub-committees to represent our agency and collaborate with community partners.
- Recruit, interview and hire new clinical staff.
- Supervise graduate level interns and doctoral interns attending the agency teaching clinic.
- Coordinate and supervise the Sexual Offense Adult Recovery Program. Including writing for state funding, supervising team of seven clinicians providing offense specific work, coordinating with Lane County Parole and Probation, conducted intake assessments to determine amenability to the program, conducted Sexual Offender Notification Level (SONL) assessments and Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) as requested by Parole and Probation.
Mental Health Therapist
Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters
Newport News, VA
02.2013 - Current
- Conduct therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
- Document observations, interventions and concerns in patient charts and electronic systems, sustaining continuum of care from admission through to discharge.
- Referr clients to external resources for additional support.
- Create client treatment plans based on assessments and goals.
- Work closely with parents and teachers to implement consistent behavior therapy techniques at home and school.
- Adhere to HIPAA confidentiality requirements by safeguarding files.
- Respond to crisis situations when severe mental health and behavioral issues arose.
- Develop comprehensive treatment plans for patients diagnosed with various conditions.
- Consult with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications.
- Assisted Medicare and SSD clients to complete documentation and advocate for their needs to be met.
- Provide both in person and telehealth sessions.
Mental Health Therapist
Fairview Health Services
Highland Park, MN
09.2007 - 02.2013
- Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
- Documented observations, interventions and concerns in patient charts and electronic systems, sustaining continuum of care from admission through to discharge.
- Referred clients to external resources for additional support.
- Created client treatment plans based on assessments and goals.
- Worked closely with parents and teachers to implement consistent behavior therapy techniques at home and school.
- Adhered to HIPAA confidentiality requirements by safeguarding files.
- Provided wide variety of individual, group and familial counseling intervention strategies using Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral and Contextual Family Therapy methodologies to assist patients.
- Assessed and provided individual and group treatment to individuals who had harmed others sexually in our Sexual Offense Adult Recovery Program (SOAR).
- Coordinated with Lane County Circuit Court who referred clients to our Evaluation and Referral Services (now QRA conducts this service). Client's were assessed using electronic measurement tools such as the MMPI, interviewed, assessed and referred to the appropriate treatment program (domestic violence, substance use recovery, anger management, individual mental health treatment or sex offender treatment.
- Supervised therapist in the Intensive Community Based Treatment Services (ICTS) Program. The ICTS services included community based services for children and their families who struggled with extreme mental health and psychosocial issues. The team coordinated care with many other community partners to wrap services around the families.
QMHP
Lane County Sex Offender Treatment Provider
City, STATE
09.2006 - 10.2008
- Conducted biopsychosocial assessments with individuals deemed high risk to sexually reoffend.
- conducted individual treatment sessions focused on cycle and cognitive behavioral treatment.
- Co-facilitated three treatment groups.
- Worked closely with Lane County Parole and Probation to provide services and ensure community safety.
Education
Master of Social Work - Clinical Social Work
Portland State University
Portland, OR06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Clinical Psychology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR06.2006
Skills
- Policy and Program Development
- Problem Identification
- Medicare Compliance
- Budget Planning
- Compliance Advisory
- Patient Advocacy
- Performance Monitoring
- Employee Performance Evaluations
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Resource Monitoring
- Clinical Staff Management
- Facility Oversight
- Employee Work Scheduling
- Time Management
- Decision Making
- Emergency Readiness
- Community-based Educational Programs
- Administrative Staff Supervision
- Clinical Quality Program Standards
- HIPAA Guidelines
- Employee Supervision
- Organizational Goal Development
- Codes Compliance
- Operating Plans Development
- Process Implementation
- Utilization Management
- Employee Recruitment and Hiring
- Critical Thinking
- Health Information Systems
- Employee Training Program
- Resource Allocation
- Problem Resolution
- Patient Care Assessment
- Operational Records Maintenance
- Logistics Project Management
- Interdepartmental Functions Coordination
Certification
- Certified Clinical Sexual Offense Therapist with the State of Oregon
Timeline
Mental Health Director
Naphcare
09.2018 - Current
Mental Health Therapist
Children's Hospital Of The King's Daughters
02.2013 - Current
Mental Health Therapist
Fairview Health Services
09.2007 - 02.2013
QMHP
Lane County Sex Offender Treatment Provider
09.2006 - 10.2008
Master of Social Work - Clinical Social Work
Portland State University
Bachelor of Science - Clinical Psychology
University of Oregon