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Connor Kelly-Eiding

(she/her) Associate Marriage And Family Therapist #139323
Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Compassionate, curious, and relational AMFT seeking work as a part of the clinical team with Experience Camps. Utilizing a client-centered and strengths-based lens. Committed to practicing cultural humility and honoring each client's lived experience and identity. Eager to expand clinician's skills, particularly in relation to working with youth and in offering support around the experience of grief.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

Eliza Steel Psychotherapy
10.2023 - Current
  • Work in private practice setting with two supervisors and a group of other AMFTs.
  • Utilize SimplePractice portal/platform for the sharing and signing of all necessary client documents, for holding telehealth sessions, and for billing, as well as creating and storing up-to-date and accurate treatment plans, progress notes, and mental status exams.
  • In intake sessions, establish therapeutic rapport, collect information on treatment goals, and collaborate with clients on treatment planning.
  • Create individualized treatment plans.
  • Provide ongoing therapy to adult individuals online and in-office utilizing an integrative therapeutic approach grounded in trauma-focused and attachment theories while also employing mindfulness and somatic interventions.
  • Participate in weekly group supervision, absorbing and integrating feedback from supervisor and other associates within the practice, often conceptualized through a trauma-focused (EMDR and IFS parts work) lens.
  • Engage in ongoing self-care and self-reflection, including personal psychotherapy.
  • Follow legal and ethical standard of care, working within scope of practice and scope of competence.
  • Engage in ongoing training opportunities and adhere to continuing education requirements.

Group Facilitator

Center for Discovery
05.2024 - Current
  • Facilitate groups in eating disorder treatment setting.
  • Run groups with adult milieu as well as teen milieu.
  • Follow curricula to structure and facilitate psychoeducation groups utilizing concepts from DBT and ACT for skills-building.
  • Plan and run groups on the topics of relationship dynamics and neuroscience, and facilitate expressive arts activities.
  • Integrate trauma-informed somatic and mindfulness practices into groups, providing tools for grounding and regulation.
  • Facilitate discussion groups exploring the impacts of diet culture, weight stigma, and anti fat bias.
  • Structure and run process groups, proving check-in, fostering emotional safety within groups, encouraging group participation, and offering closure at the end of each group.
  • Support in meal prep and provide meal support for patients, following proper kitchen safety and sanitation guidelines, engaging patients during meal, and providing redirection as needed.
  • Complete group and meal documentation within required time frame, attend ongoing trainings, and work collaboratively with other staff.

Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee & Associate

Counseling West
05.2022 - 10.2023
  • Conducted phone screenings with potential clients to gather brief client history and assess clinical site's rightness of fit for client.
  • Did intake sessions with clients to establish therapeutic rapport and collect information on treatment goals.
  • Collaborated with clients on treatment goals and created individualized treatment plans.
  • Provided therapy to adult individuals, utilizing an integrative therapeutic approach grounded in trauma-focused, attachment, and psychodynamic theories, while also employing mindfulness and somatic interventions.
  • Worked collaboratively with clients in the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptomatology, grief, and phase of life issues.
  • Engaged in ongoing self-care and self-reflection.
  • Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes and client records using online EHR software.
  • Participated in weekly group supervision, absorbing and integrating feedback from supervisor and other trainees as well as providing feedback.
  • Attended weekly trainings on various clinically-relevant topics, including LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapy, eco-psychology, mind-body interventions for trauma, EFT for couples, suicide prevention and intervention, and others, often provided from a Depth perspective.

Professional Actor

Screen Actors Guild & Actors Equity Association
05.2011 - Current

Worked as an actor on television, stage, film, voice over, and audiobooks.

  • Worked collaboratively with various directors, actors, and production teams across mediums.
  • Explored the life circumstances of various characters, investing in characters' emotional lives with openness and vulnerability.
  • Utilized and led physical and vocal warm-up exercises prior to performances to increase focus, energy, grounding, and emotional accessibility.
  • Participated in professional workshops and master classes to hone acting skills - scene study, improvisation, voice over, and theatrical clown.
  • Cultivated long-term working relationships with various theater companies across Los Angeles, including the Echo, Antaeus, and Four Clowns.

Education

Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology

Antioch University
Los Angeles
04.2021 - 03.2023

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Acting

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
08.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

Group Facilitation

Active Listening

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

Empathy

Teamwork and Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Self-Motivated

Problem Solving

Documentation

Interpersonal and written communication

Software

EHR: TherapyNotes

EHR: SimplePractice

Microsoft Office Suite

Google Workspace

Slack

Asana

Pipedrive

Zoom

EHR:Kipu

Accomplishments

Institute of Creative Mindfulness, 2023: Fully trained in EMDR therapy.

InsightLA: Completed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course, spring of 2020.

Published a book of drawings in 2020 entitled Feelings for Days.

Volunteered with LA4Choice, 2015-2016.

Volunteered with Crisis Text Line, 2016.

Interests

Theater, Film, and Television

Fine Arts: Drawing and Collage

Reading: Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction

Mindfulness and Meditation

Embroidery

Timeline

Group Facilitator

Center for Discovery
05.2024 - Current

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist

Eliza Steel Psychotherapy
10.2023 - Current

Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee & Associate

Counseling West
05.2022 - 10.2023

Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology

Antioch University
04.2021 - 03.2023

Professional Actor

Screen Actors Guild & Actors Equity Association
05.2011 - Current

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Acting

University of Southern California
08.2007 - 05.2011
Connor Kelly-Eiding(she/her) Associate Marriage And Family Therapist #139323