Erika Lopez-Escalera
Summary
Professional mental health practitioner with expertise in delivering therapeutic interventions and fostering emotional well-being. Skilled in individual, group, and family therapy, crisis intervention, and mental health assessment. Strong focus on collaboration and achieving positive outcomes, adaptable to changing client needs. Known for empathy, patience, and excellent communication skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Therapist II
Rebekah Children's Services
05.2021 - Current
- Provided individual, group, and family therapy as well as crisis and case management sessions to patients ages 6-21 and their families.
- Built strong rapport with clients, fostering trust and open communication for effective therapy sessions.
- Maintained detailed case notes and documentation, ensuring effective tracking of progress and continuity of care across providers.
- Enhanced client well-being through personalized treatment plans tailored to individual needs and goals.
- Provided crisis intervention services, stabilizing clients in distress and connecting them with necessary resources.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and deliver treatment plans and patient care.
- Utilized supervision, consultation and training as necessary to continue to provide high quality of services to children and their families effectively and efficiently as possible.
Supervisor
Pizza My Heart
10.2012 - 12.2021
- Accountable for budgeting, cost control, and payroll
- Investigated and resolved food quality and service complaints
- Build and maintain relationships with clients to increase the business while maintaining customer satisfaction
- Fostered fun and creative learning environment for employees
- Build rapport with employees and foster a safe environment
- Conduct school tours for students from kindergarten through 3rd grade
- Improved customer satisfaction with timely response to inquiries, addressing concerns, and finding effective solutions.
Marriage and Family Therapist (Trainee) and Bilingual Intake Coordinator
Community Health Awareness Council
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Provided mental health services to children, individual adults, and families
- Facilitated weekly social emotional support groups
- Created measurable goals, completed psychosocial assessments, treatment plans and structured progress notes for clients on caseload
- Attended weekly trainings and supervision
- Experience and training in conducting phone screens on prospect clients and completing intake interviews for Spanish speaking clients
- Assisted non-Spanish speaking clinicians with the Spanish speaking parents of their clients during intakes and risk assessments
Behavior Technician
Kids Overcoming, LLC
11.2018 - 05.2019
- Teach and help to promote language, behavioral, social, and daily living skills in a fun, play setting to increase children's motivation and performance
- 1:1 direct services in the client's home (and community settings, as needed)
- Implement individualized, played-based therapy plans
- Collect data on programming targets, and provide support to parents, teachers, and caregivers
- Submit case notes of each session to supervisor
- Maintain timely communications with clients and supervising BCBAs
- Enhanced client progress by implementing individualized behavior intervention plans.
Human Resources Assistant
San Mateo Credit Union
06.2015 - 08.2015
- Assisted in three different areas, including Human Resources, Marketing, and Member Services, working on a variety of primarily administrative tasks
- Audited employee benefit information
- Internship, (Volunteer)
- Efficiently managed personnel files, maintaining confidentiality while keeping records up-to-date and organized.
Education
M.A. - Counseling Psychology
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA06.2020
B.A. - Psychology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA06.2016
Skills
- Treatment Planning
- Building rapport
- Crisis intervention
- One-on-one sessions
- Patient advocacy
- Active listening
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Adaptability and flexibility
Certification
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)-Board of Behavioral Sciences
- CPR/AED Certification
- California Child Abuse Mandated Reporter
- Santa Clara County CANS 5+ 2.0
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy-PESI
- TF-CBT
- CBT a clinical perspective for therapist
- Motivational Interviewing
- Introduction to Sandtray
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Therapist II
Rebekah Children's Services
05.2021 - Current
Marriage and Family Therapist (Trainee) and Bilingual Intake Coordinator
Community Health Awareness Council
08.2019 - 05.2021
Behavior Technician
Kids Overcoming, LLC
11.2018 - 05.2019
Human Resources Assistant
San Mateo Credit Union
06.2015 - 08.2015
Supervisor
Pizza My Heart
10.2012 - 12.2021
B.A. - Psychology
University of California
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)-Board of Behavioral Sciences
- CPR/AED Certification
- California Child Abuse Mandated Reporter
- Santa Clara County CANS 5+ 2.0
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy-PESI
- TF-CBT
- CBT a clinical perspective for therapist
- Motivational Interviewing
- Introduction to Sandtray
M.A. - Counseling Psychology
Santa Clara University
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