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Kirby Maus

Palm Springs,CA

Summary

Well-educated, trained, and experienced psychotherapist offering comprehensive experience facilitating groups, families, couples, and individuals in medical and private practice settings. Formally educated in family/business systems. Experientially trained in trauma, dysfunction, addiction, recovery, grief & loss, and resiliency. Proficient in maintaining timely and accurate progress notes, treatment plans, and discharge summaries. Formidable background working in broadcast journalism, home healthcare, and fitness.

Overview

46
46
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #86480

Sole Proprietorship
04.2015 - Current
  • Perform assessing, diagnosing, treatment planning, psychoeducating, facilitating, and discharge planning, as well as facilitated group, family, couple, and individual counseling and psychotherapy.
  • Maintain accurate and thoroughly documented notes in accordance with licensing standards.
  • 12-Step Recovery, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Somatic Experiencing
  • Facilitated full-time individual therapy for www.ginger.com from May of 2021-August 2022.

Approved Clinical Supervisor

Motivo Health
05.2018 - Current
  • Supervise/Mentor Associate Marriage & Family Therapists counseling and psychotherapy services in order to pass state board exams required to earn licensure with CA BBS and AZ BBHE.
  • Thoroughly teach, coach, train; Confidentiality, Privilege, Consent, Limits of Confidentiality, Mandated Reporting, Legal Standards for Professional Practice, Professional Competence and Preventing Harm, Therapeutic Relationships, Business Practices and Policies.
  • Provide complex case consultations with Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists.

Military & Family Life Counselor (Temporary)

Leidos
12.2021 - 04.2022
  • Facilitated short-term, non-medical, problem-solving, walk-around counseling.
  • Provided face-to-face crisis intervention and suicide prevention triage counseling services.
  • Presented psychoeducational lectures and workshops to address mental, emotional, and behavioral skills development related to military life stress including deployment and reintegration.

Mother's Registered Caregiver #774695

In-Home Support Services
01.2010 - 06.2021
  • Proudly served as dependent elder adult mother's medic, nurse, administrator, and advocate 24/7/365.
  • Provided compassionate patient-focused integrated care to cultivate mom's well-being, which included attending to and treating mother's gastronomy tube, colostomy, catheter, and wound care.
  • Transported mom to medical appointments, emergency room, events, activities, and shopping trips.

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #43482

JCAHO Addiction Treatment Centers
06.2003 - 12.2009
  • Served as Chemical Dependency Counselor at Betty Ford Center, The Meadows of Wickenburg, and Sierra Tucson earning more than 3,000-hours toward licensure as MFT with CA BBS and AZ BBHE.
  • Performed assessing, diagnosing, treatment planning, psychoeducating, facilitating, and discharge planning, as well as facilitated group, family, couple, and individual counseling and psychotherapy.
  • Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes in accordance with licensing standards.

Broadcast Journalist

Television, Radio
08.1990 - 06.2005
  • Covered professional, collegiate, and high school athletic departments and sport programs.
  • Networked, Investigated, Interviewed, Logged, Wrote, Voiced, Edited, Reported/Anchored LIVE.
  • Authored and presented informative and balanced sports and news stories meeting on-air deadlines.


Education

Master of Business Administration - Ken Blanchard Executive MBA

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ
03.2012

Master of Counseling - Marriage, Family, And Child Counseling

University of Phoenix
San Diego, CA
05.2003

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
07.1990

Skills

  • Adobe/Microsoft Publishing
  • Analyzing
  • Building Rapport
  • Active Listening
  • Collaborating
  • Motivating
  • Networking
  • Organizing
  • Public Speaking
  • Writing/Editing

Affiliations

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity (Lou Gehrig Memorial Award Committee, Education Committee)

Certification

Developmental Immaturity and Post Induction (by Pia Mellody at The Meadows of Wickenburg)

Prolonged Exposure Therapy (by Edna Foa at MUSC)


Certified Spinning Instructor (by Josh Taylor at Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc.)

Certified Personal Trainer (by Greg Sims at Interactive Fitness Trainers of America)


Somatic Experiencing Practitioner-Candidate (by Peter Levine at Somatic Experiencing International)

School of Chaplaincy (by Steve Ballinger at Living Shield)

Timeline

Military & Family Life Counselor (Temporary)

Leidos
12.2021 - 04.2022

Approved Clinical Supervisor

Motivo Health
05.2018 - Current

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #86480

Sole Proprietorship
04.2015 - Current

Mother's Registered Caregiver #774695

In-Home Support Services
01.2010 - 06.2021

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #43482

JCAHO Addiction Treatment Centers
06.2003 - 12.2009

Broadcast Journalist

Television, Radio
08.1990 - 06.2005

Master of Business Administration - Ken Blanchard Executive MBA

Grand Canyon University

Master of Counseling - Marriage, Family, And Child Counseling

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication

Arizona State University

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