Kerry McCann

• Provides Individual, couples and family psychotherapy; substance abuse counseling, trauma treatment.
• · Conducts intake interviews using GAD-7 and PHQ-9 assessments to assess client needs.
• Develops individualized treatment plans for clients to incorporate short-term and long-term goals.
• Uses psychodynamic approach to adapt counseling techniques to best suit individual needs of each client.
• Implemented evidence-based therapeutic interventions to promote positive behavior change.
• Guides clients in developing skills and strategies for dealing with problems.
• Facilitates group counseling sessions to support and encourage client growth.
• Maintains confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.

• Listens to and supports the needs of inmates and their families during incarceration works with administration; civilian and uniformed to ensure the population is safe and their needs are being met.
• Evaluates operational practices and identifies improvement opportunities to develop revisions for systems and procedures.
• Acts as a liaison with other departments to ensure medical care, mental health, education and programming are available and accessible.
• Works closely with government and community agencies; i.e., probation, DCP&P, Recovery Court, TASC evaluators, and other municipalities to support the needs of the individual in custody or the contacting agency.
• Provides oversight of the grievance system-ensuring timely and concise responses are provided, monitoring for communications related to the safety of the population and the staff as well as the security of the facility.
• Facilitating individual sessions for Houses of Healing program for general population and Making Time Count created for use in restricted housing.

• Working with veterans and businesses in the community to provide gainful employment to the veterans with Serious Mental Illness and/or Co-Occurring Disorders.
• Conducted vocational assessments and treatment planning for program participants.
• Assisted individuals with addressing disabilities and developing career plans.
• Utilized vocational exploration activities and resources, i.e. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) instrument to identify personality types and complimentary careers.
• Facilitated Life and Career Skill Development groups and orientation classes.
• Promoted development of interviewing, resume writing and etiquette skills.

• Supervised new interns

-Assigned cases

-Conducted performance reviews and improvement plans.

• Conducted intakes and assessments.
• Provided counseling to incarcerated adults with diverse backgrounds using various theoretical approaches, specific to client needs.
• Co-facilitated Family Night for residents.
• Facilitated weekly parenting groups to strengthen parenting skills and foster positive environments for families during the incarceration of a parent.
• Coordinated with community organizations to provide resource and treatment referrals.
• Administrative responsibilities included working with other departments for security, medical and psychological needs of residents as well as helping residents and administration with other concerns, inquiries; legal, fiscal and facility employment.
• Identified and reported signs and symptoms of violence, abuse and neglect for immediate intervention and remediation.

• Preparation of files, reviewing driver abstracts and screening of clients for assessment referrals
• Teaching modules during the 12 hour court ordered classes.
• Client intakes, assessment referrals and client admission reports.
• Issuance of noncompliance warning letters to clients
• Preparing communications to court and to Motor Vehicle Commission MVC.
• Displayed sensitivity to cultural and linguistic needs of clients served.

• Coordinated and scheduled meetings and conference calls to optimize scheduling for the Chief of Medical Service and other clinical staff.
• Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
• Drafted correspondence and other documents for the Chief of Medical Service and the other physicians.
• Primary point of contact for medical students, residents and Fellows for Medical Services.
• IT responsibilities included issuing computer codes, menus and options.
• Responsible for assigning academic evaluations of VA rotations, and preparing letters of recommendation.
• Maintain office documents, timekeeping records
• Monitored and performed audits of schedules and timecards and designated audits of other departments under Medical Service.
• Managed paper and electronic filing systems.
• Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze, and report training rotations.