Brianna Heaney
Chicago,IL
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Advanced Therapy Extern
HumanKind Psychological Services
Chicago, Illinois
07.2025 - Current
- Conducted intake assessments to identify presenting issues and develop customized treatment plans.
- Managed diverse caseload of adult clients (ages 18–65) through in-person and virtual therapy sessions.
- Utilized integrative humanistic and psychoanalytic approaches to address various mental health concerns.
- Provided treatment for perfectionism, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, substance use, and mood disorders.
- Administered comprehensive neuropsychological batteries, interpreting results with collateral integration.
- Participated in weekly seminars and case conferences focused on intuitive eating and evidence-based practices.
Intermediate Therapy Extern
Metropolitan Preparatory Schools
Arlington Heights, IL
07.2024 - 06.2025
- Conduct weekly individual therapy sessions with a diverse caseload of high school-aged students (14–18 years), addressing IEP goals and various mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, substance use, mood disorders, psychosis, autism, personality disorders, learning disabilities, and trauma-related disorders.
- Facilitate three distinct therapy groups: Social skills group for adolescents on the autism spectrum, CAPS (Condom Availability Program) to provide students with access to condoms and sexual health education, Psychoeducation group focused on transitional topics relevant to adolescence
- Utilize an integrative therapeutic approach grounded in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic and person-centered frameworks, while incorporating evidence-based interventions such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to address client-specific needs, particularly in trauma-informed care.
- Collaborate with parents, district representatives, and outside providers during IEP meetings and progress updates to ensure comprehensive support for students.
- Provide milieu management, classroom support, and crisis intervention to foster a safe and structured environment for student growth and development.
- Conducted crisis intervention sessions for clients dealing with emotional distress or trauma.
Basic Practicum Diagnostic Extern
Riveredge Hospital
Forest Park, IL
07.2023 - 07.2025
- Administered comprehensive psychodiagnostic batteries, including intellectual, cognitive, academic, emotional, objective, projective, and self-report measures, to children, adolescents, and adults in a fast-paced acute inpatient psychiatric hospital setting.
- Conducted in-depth semi-structured clinical interviews to gather critical information on patient history, systemic influences, and current presentation, ensuring a thorough understanding of each individual's unique context.
- Interpreted and integrated psychodiagnostic assessment results, clinical interviews, behavioral observations, collateral information, and medical records to develop trauma-informed diagnostic impressions and personalized recommendations tailored to each patient’s systemic and cultural context.
- Managed high-stakes crisis situations, leveraging de-escalation techniques and rapid assessment to ensure patient and staff safety while maintaining therapeutic rapport.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary treatment teams, including psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, and unit staff, to design and implement patient-centered care plans that addressed complex clinical presentations and treatment goals.
- Shadowed and contributed to individual and family therapy sessions, enriching clinical insight and therapeutic interventions.
- Facilitated evidence-based therapeutic groups for diverse populations across Intensive Care, Chemical Dependency, and Pediatric Units, incorporating cognitive-behavioral techniques, relapse prevention strategies, coping skills development, values exploration, and trauma processing.
- Delivered services to underserved and diverse populations presenting with a wide range of psychiatric and psychosocial challenges, including severe trauma, psychosis, substance use disorders, eating disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, aggression, personality disorders, intellectual disabilities, and behavioral concerns.
- Maintained a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive approach to all aspects of assessment and intervention, ensuring recommendations were actionable, systemically attuned, and supported recovery across individual and family systems.
Program Therapist
Eating Recovery Center
Chicago, IL
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Program Therapist at a residential and partial-hospitalization eating disorder treatment center.
- Facilitated ACT/DBT curriculum-based therapeutic groups: processing, relapse prevention, values, goals, triggers.
- Provide meal support to patients, measure food intake and measure and administer proper meal supplementation, maintain detailed meal documentation.
- Residential milieu management: de-escalation, crisis management, bathroom monitoring, routine suicide safety checks, morning routine support, vitals.
COPE Outreach Programming Chair
University of Miami Counseling Center
Miami, FL
03.2021 - 05.2022
- COPE (Counseling Outreach Peer Education) Outreach Programming Chair
- Organized and executed seminars relating to relevant mental health topics such as anxiety, depression, suicide prevention, burnout, and more for the student body.
- Collaborated with the university's clinicians and therapists to gain intel on relevant topics of concern within the student body and for training on effective clinical approaches.
- Worked to de-stigmatize mental health around campus in order to create a safe space for peers and faculty members to seek out professional help.
Clinical Psychology Intern
Behavioral Aid Solutions
Doral, FL
08.2021 - 01.2022
- Maintained clinical documentation of goals and progress.
- Established effective and collaborative working relationships with treatment providers.
- Operated and mastered computer and office technology required to plan and implement professional and conclusive psychological testing.
- Completed detailed documentation of sessions, patient notes and recommendations.
- Shadowed and translated Clinical Psychologists conducting (from Spanish to English) intake sessions.
Achievement Specialist
United Community Options of South Florida
Miami, FL
07.2019 - 01.2020
- Achievement Specialist at a preschool for children with cerebral palsy, down syndrome, autism, and other related disorders.
- Assessed children on several skill domains including communication, social-emotional, adaptive, motor, and cognitive skills, to gather information for their specialized therapists to track their progress and see how their interventions were affecting them.
- Certified to administer the Battelle® Developmental Inventory, Third Edition™ (BDI-3™), a common instrument used to assess children with cognitive or developmental delays
Education
Psy.D - Clinical Psychology
The Chicago School
Chicago, IL05.2027
Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology
The Chicago School
Chicago, IL07-2024
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Miami
Miami, FL05.2022
Skills
- Proficient Spanish Speaking
Certification
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training
- Crisis Prevention Institute Training
- QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention
- Magnetic Resonance Imagine (MRI) Trained
- E-Prost/ IRB Protocol Trained
- Mandated Reporter Trained
- First Aid / CPR Certified
- HIPAA Trained
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
The Chicago School
Dissertation Proposal Development:
Title: Lived Experiences of SSRI-Induced Sexual Dysfunction in Women: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study
- Currently developing dissertation under the mentorship of Dr. Jenine Chiles (Dissertation Chair); IRB approval pending.
- Investigating the lived experiences of women with SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction using a phenomenological methodology to capture their subjective experiences and meaning-making processes.
- Grounded in feminist theory to highlight systemic, cultural, and interpersonal influences on women’s sexual health and well-being.
- Aiming to provide clinical insights into the psychosocial impact of SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction and inform therapeutic practices and psychoeducation.
- Focus includes understanding the intersection of mental health treatment, sexual health, and societal norms, with the goal of improving clinical care and patient advocacy.
The University of Miami BRAIN GROUP: (The Bridging Research on Anxiety, Innovations, and Neuroscience)
- Designed and conducted research and experimental studies involving cognitive and affective flexibility, executing research techniques, tests and assays.
- Maintained detailed records of experiments and outcomes for use in data analysis.
- Performed background literature research.
- Took active role in anticipating data analysis for applicability in mental health interventions and outcomes.
PRESENTATIONS
Novotny, S.E., Heaney, B.K., Zaman, S.N., Benoliel, S.L., Ceccarelli, A.M., Hoffman, E.R., Meyyappan, A.R., Snipes, A.D., & Britton, J.C. (2023). Ready Go! Cognitive and Emotional Item-Generation, Task Constraints, and Symptoms [Poster Abstract]. 2023 Anxiety and Depression Association of America annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Member
REFERENCES
References available upon request.
Timeline
Advanced Therapy Extern
HumanKind Psychological Services
07.2025 - Current
Intermediate Therapy Extern
Metropolitan Preparatory Schools
07.2024 - 06.2025
Basic Practicum Diagnostic Extern
Riveredge Hospital
07.2023 - 07.2025
Program Therapist
Eating Recovery Center
01.2023 - 06.2023
Clinical Psychology Intern
Behavioral Aid Solutions
08.2021 - 01.2022
COPE Outreach Programming Chair
University of Miami Counseling Center
03.2021 - 05.2022
Achievement Specialist
United Community Options of South Florida
07.2019 - 01.2020
Psy.D - Clinical Psychology
The Chicago School
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Miami
Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology
The Chicago School
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