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Humza Malik

Chicago,IL

Summary

Licensed Social Worker with over 9 years of experience in mental health services and healing arts, specializing in LGBTQ+ mental health, advocacy, and youth development. Skilled in fostering resilience, facilitating personal growth, and supporting diverse populations. Dedicated to integrating trauma-informed care and spiritual healing practices to promote holistic wellness.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Founder's Fellow Psychotherapist

Live Oak, Inc.
Chicago, IL
07.2024 - Current
  • Build and manage a caseload with a target of 18 weekly sessions and maintain timely progress notes, billing, and documentation.
  • Collaborate in office committees and accountability repair teams to support organizational integrity.
  • Participate in weekly individual and group supervision to enhance clinical practice.
  • Attend monthly staff meetings, foundational trainings, and public workshops focused on trauma-informed care, LGBTQ+, and TGNC affirmative approaches, relational diversity frameworks, and other core clinical competencies.

Youth Advisory Board Chairperson

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
Chicago, IL
08.2023 - 04.2024
  • Contributed to developing strategic plans and ensuring organizational accountability with the YEPP Board of Directors.
  • Led weekly meetings to manage hiring processes and new position development.

Interim Services Support Specialist

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
Chicago, IL
07.2023 - 04.2024
  • Staffed community drop-in days.
  • Coordinated support services for young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability (e.g., laundry and shower use, food access, and providing resources from the Chicago Youth Mutual Aid distribution center).
  • Engaged in peer mentorship, relationship building, crisis intervention, and de-escalation skills.

Clinical Support Intern

Wellness Resiliency Arts Program, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
08.2022 - 08.2023
  • Held support groups twice per day for an annual intensive summer art therapy program for youth aged 9 to 16 to process trauma through art healing.
  • Facilitated daily interactive processing sessions based on art exhibits, and provided social and emotional support.
  • Conducted 1:1 sessions with teens as necessary.

Resource and Healing Advocate Intern

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
Chicago, IL
10.2021 - 06.2023
  • Led 1:1 needs assessment interviews with queer and trans BIPOC youth.
  • Maintained a 5-person caseload, and engaged in community-based resource advocacy.
  • Facilitated brainstorming, agenda-setting, and policy creation sessions for staff members.
  • Created needs assessment tools and Self-Determination Plans to supplement the Healing Performance Program.
  • Established transformative justice councils (CHAT: Community Healing, Accountability, and Transformation).

Peer Mental Health Advocate

Project LETS
Providence, RI
11.2020 - 05.2021
  • Provided 1:1 peer support for college students living with mental illness, disability, trauma, and/or neurodivergence.
  • Received intensive training on non-punitive, disability justice models of mental healthcare, covering crisis intervention, treatment plan creation, coping skills, and suicide prevention.

Education

Master of Social Work - Clinical

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
06.2023

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Brown University
Providence, RI
05.2021

Skills

  • Trans Affirming Care
  • LGBTQIA Affirming Care
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Culturally Sensitive Approach
  • Strengths-Based Approach
  • Harm Reduction & Transformative Justice
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Humanistic/Person-Centered Therapy

Certification

  • LSW: Licensed by State of Illinois / 150.114047
  • Reiki Level 1 & 2: Shamonic Reiki

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Founder's Fellow Psychotherapist

Live Oak, Inc.
07.2024 - Current

Youth Advisory Board Chairperson

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
08.2023 - 04.2024

Interim Services Support Specialist

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
07.2023 - 04.2024

Clinical Support Intern

Wellness Resiliency Arts Program, University of Chicago
08.2022 - 08.2023

Resource and Healing Advocate Intern

Youth Empowerment Performance Project
10.2021 - 06.2023

Peer Mental Health Advocate

Project LETS
11.2020 - 05.2021

Master of Social Work - Clinical

University of Chicago

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Brown University

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