BRITTNEY RAYMOND
Santa Barbara,CA
Summary
- Registered AMFT #144473 looking for an aligned position that will continue to help me learn, grow, and ripen into a great therapist, and provide holistic and compassionate care to clients facing life's many challenges.
- 2.5 years' experience, approximately 1,800 hours, working with a diverse range of clients and marginalized groups.
- Foundational coursework and training with an integrative interest in psychodynamic, attachment, CBT, IFS, and mindful practices.
- Strength-based and person-centered approaches grounded in safety, collaboration, curiosity, and compassion.
- Certification in teen life coaching that provided me with training on top adolescent issues, and valuable tools for helping them define and reach goals.
- Residential treatment experience working with foster and at-risk youth.
- Deeply curious, compassionate, open-minded, and growth-oriented.
- Great passion for empowering individuals to step into their fullest potential through strengthening their relationship to self, and their unique story.
- Ability to adapt in stressful situations, and manage time effectively to manage my workload.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Small Business Owner
SOUTH OF SOMEWHERE VINTAGE
Topanga, CA
09.2019 - Current
- Established a vision to reach profit and revenue goals, create community, and generate love for sustainable everyday fashion.
- Leveraged social media to expand market reach and facilitate website and community engagement.
- Built multiple relationships through connection and integration with the community via pop-ups, event appearances, and networking.
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER
Ventura, CA
05.2024 - 06.2025
- Prioritized learning about my client's unique experiences and perspectives, building rapport, safety, and trust, and empowering clients to make choices that align with their goals and values.
- Developed treatment plans in collaboration with individuals, families, and maintained proper documentation and progress notes.
- Maintained a weekly caseload of 18 to 25 clients, providing therapy in person and via telehealth.
- Approached each client with a strength-based approach, grounded in safety, collaboration, curiosity, and compassion.
- Promoted safety, ensured confidentiality, and provided additional support and referrals when needed.
- Used crisis interventions to assess and respond to suicidal ideation and self-harm, as well as to create safety plans to support clients.
- Worked with a variety of presenting issues, including anxiety, depression, interpersonal and relational conflict, grief and loss, sexual abuse, trauma, schizophrenia, oppositional defiant disorder, OCD, ADHD, etc.
Intern Therapist
MAPLE COUNSELING
Beverly Hills, CA
06.2022 - 08.2023
- Prioritized learning about my client's unique experience and perspectives, building rapport, safety, and trust, and empowering clients to make choices that aligned with their goals and values.
- Developed treatment plans in collaboration with individuals and families and maintained proper documentation and progress notes.
- Approached issues through a psychodynamic, CBT, and mindfulness lens to creatively explore and work through a variety of presenting issues.
- Worked successfully with a diverse team of coworkers and supervisors to learn, grow, and develop professionally.
- I attended weekly group and individual supervision as well as weekly personal development trainings that gave me exposure to a broad range of modalities, skills, and topics.
- Promoted safety, ensured confidentiality, and provided additional support and referrals when needed.
- Maintained a weekly caseload of 12-15 clients, providing therapy in person and via telehealth.
- Ran a group therapy support circle that helped students process their peers' battle with cancer and grief associated with it.
- Responded to crisis situations including suicidal ideation, sexual harassment, bullying, and home life issues that prompted concern.
Teen Life Coach
GIRL HANGS
Los Angeles, CA
11.2021 - 06.2023
- Founded a community coaching organization for teen girls with the mission to increase connection to self and others, generate a greater sense of community and belonging, and develop tools and skills for greater capacity to move through challenges.
- Created group empowerment circles called 'Girl Hangs' to promote learning and growing together through vulnerability, shared experience, mentorship, skill building, and creativity.
- Used interactive activities, music, art, crafts, and play to increase learning, promote sharing, and practice various ways of expressing and absorbing information.
Treatment Counselor
FIVE ACRES SCHOOL
Altadena, CA
09.2016 - 03.2017
- Managed and supported 12-15 children daily in residential care through socio-emotional support, behavioral intervention, schedule management, and recreational activities.
- Engaged children in arts and crafts, sports activities, games, and recreation while maintaining a safe and encouraging environment.
- Cultivated genuine relationships with youth and other staff through active listening, empathy, validation, humor, and curiosity.
- Managed various crisis situations including peer fights, cutting, suicidal ideation, sexual harassment, and violent outbursts.
Education
Master of Science - Clinical Psychology
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA06.2023
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Washington State University
Pullman, WA06.2016
Skills
- Treatment planning
- Crisis intervention
- Telehealth services
- Progress documentation
- EMDR certified
- IFS trained
- Multicultural competence
- Teen therapy
Community Service
- Rescue Mission at Seattle Union Gospel Mission, Seattle, WA, Volunteer
- Horizon Scholars Program at Pepperdine, Member
- California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Member
Timeline
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER
05.2024 - 06.2025
Intern Therapist
MAPLE COUNSELING
06.2022 - 08.2023
Teen Life Coach
GIRL HANGS
11.2021 - 06.2023
Small Business Owner
SOUTH OF SOMEWHERE VINTAGE
09.2019 - Current
Treatment Counselor
FIVE ACRES SCHOOL
09.2016 - 03.2017
Master of Science - Clinical Psychology
Pepperdine University
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
Washington State University