Lara Clayman

• Founded virtual psychotherapy private practice.
• Created website, directory listings and other marketing tools to promote business.
• Conduct short- and long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with individuals and couples
• Teach clients to effectively manage stress and anxiety from major life changes or general overwhelm, healing from racial trauma or past child or relationship abuse, parenting stress, mixed race identity issues and climate despair
• Assess rovided education and responded to crisis situations.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to coordinate care plans and implement continuity of care.
• Used therapeutic communication techniques to build rapport and guide discussion with clients
• Evaluated patients' goals, as well as mental and practical conditions, to develop individualized courses of treatment.
• Organized clinical documentation, treatment plans, and referrals.
• Provided clients with recommendations to community resources.

• Virtual psychotherapy with approximately 20 adult and adolescent clients across the state of California from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds each week across the state of California
• Evaluated patients' goals, as well as mental and practical conditions, to develop individualized courses of treatment.
• Performed client assessments, developed treatment plans, and maintained and updated client progress in confidential files.
• Guided clients in development of skills and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques.
• Introduced meditation, grounding exercises, breathing techniques, and self-compassion practice to clients
• Assisted clients to better understand roles as parents, through psychoeducation and focusing on developing skills to nurture and guide children.
• Counseled individuals to help understand problems, deal with crisis situations and develop realistic action plans.
• Assisted clients with gaining insights, establishing clear goals and planning strategies to reach personal targets.
• Referred clients to other specialists, institutions or support services as necessary.
• Administered, scored and interpreted psychosocial examinations for assessment of different patient markers.

• 1:1 consulting and coaching parent-child interactions to support clients in family transitions via observation, treatment planning, and education on skills and tools relevant to goals; providing tools for bonding, separation anxiety, self-regulation and limit-setting through the use of non-violent communication, CBT and mindfulness techniques for anxiety management
• Developed and facilitated psychoeducational support groups for families at various stages of development: mom-baby support group to reduce isolation, stress and anxiety and to strengthen mother child bonding in critical early months of life; developmental pre-school readiness play groups; sewing circle support groups for mothers; “Collective Wisdom” professional development group
• Promoted community investment in addressing public school district's climate neglect and inaction. Worked with Sierra club, students, teachers, community stakeholders to pass Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) Climate Emergency Action Resolution and ensuing anti-racist, holistic ecological sustainability policy.
• Consensus building between urban school communities and their diverse families
• Engaged with larger campaigns to build deeply collaborative partnerships.
• Organized and co-produced Martin Luther King Jr Oratorical Festival for Sequoia Elementary School; recruited and trained volunteer coaches, community judges, sponsors and production crew, coordinated practice schedules with teachers and volunteers and students, ran evening and daytime assemblies
• Built strong bonds with local cultural organizations by respecting unique differences and specific societal norms.
• Co-chaired annual silent auction fundraiser event raising $21k for Sequoia Nursery School
• Coordinated and implemented community listening sessions with youth and staff in BIPOC schools on impact of environmental racism.
• Consultant to elementary school on separation anxiety, developing psychoeducational materials on reducing back-to-school anxiety for distribution in newsletter and website
• Successful neighborhood advocacy to petition to petition the City of Oakland for speed bumps and traffic calming measures around neighborhood school.

• Taught psychoeducational curriculum and coping skills to children aged 5-17 experiencing parental separation and divorce
• Facilitated dialogue between participants to foster peer support and de-stigmatize divorce.
• Conducted weekly workshops on emotional intelligence skill-building to help children cope with parental separation.
• Created safe space for and children to express and process feelings related to divorce.

• Provided home and office-based infant-parent, child-parent and family therapy, primarily to monolingual Spanish speaking families.
• Assessment of children 5 and under including developmental screening, assessing emotional functioning and parent-child relationship in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
• Attended professional development trainings and community meetings.
• Coordinated services with community partners and YFES treatment team members.
• Complied with documentation requirements and participated in program evaluation efforts.
• Conducted outreach to the community to inform the community about our program and to generate referrals.

• Co-created and co-facilitated 13-week, 75 minute, voluntary, experiential pilot study and group learning experience on cultural identity and psychology to elevate and develop cultural competence within the Institute.
• Consulted on on-going development of proposal for integrating learning around diversity within training program.
• Served on Diversity Committee to influence TPI organizational policies regarding issues related to difference.
• Participated in weekly, year-long transition group with former TPI colleagues and staff that serves as professional support and consultation group.

• Conducted long- and short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with individuals and couples for up to 2yrs
• Provided crisis intervention, problem-solving and brief psychotherapy as needed
• Maintained steady, weekly caseload of 8-12 client hours in low-fee community mental health clinic
• Performed investigative intake interviews, assessed fit, paired intakes with therapists and offered community referrals when appropriate
• Developed treatment plans based on diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic goals
• Organized and updated clinical and administrative records in a timely manner and with confidentiality
• Received 4-6 hrs of individual and group supervision weekly
• Attended weekly didactic trainings in psychodynamic theory, bi-weekly professional development group, clinical issues group and occasional educational workshops

• Psychotherapy and clinical case management for teens at Hercules High School.
• Performed individual and group psychotherapy weekly with 10-15 high school-aged clients.
• Created and facilitated support group for young women on self-esteem, self-management and peer relationships.
• Initiated collateral meetings with teachers, school guidance counselors, school psychologist and parents to enhance treatment outcomes as well as participated in IEP meetings.
• Offered crisis intervention and support for all school students as needed
• Formed therapeutic alliances and co-developed therapeutic goals with voluntary and involuntary clients.
• Coordinated home visits and outreach efforts to involve families in their children’s treatment.
• Referred clients to school-based and community support services and encouraged follow-through.
• Reached out to school staff and families alerting them of school-based counselor’s clinical services.
• Participated in weekly case conferencing with BACR school-based counselors placed in diverse array of schools.
• Advocated on behalf of clients and student body for increasing mental health services at school.

• Conducted comprehensive on-going psychosocial assessment of all youth on caseload

• Assisted in development and implementation of comprehensive psychosocial assessment and data tracking system for clinical support services

• Supported all youth holistically in creating individual development plans and achieving short-and long-term personal, educational and career-related goals and provided follow-up on referrals for services.
• Advised cross-departmental, multidisciplinary team on psychosocial needs and appropriateness of services for diverse caseload of 25-40 at-risk adolescents and young adults during weekly case conferencing
• Offered continued transitional support services to youth upon exiting the program for up to one year
• Facilitated and developed curriculum for life skills workshops
• Conducted outreach, recruitment and screening to select 80 youth participants
• Assisted schools with at-risk youth behavior, education and extracurricular activities to reinforce youth development programs.
• Understood and navigated processes for obtaining state and federal grants aiding in financial support of youth development programs.
• Coordinated with communities, school systems, parents and law enforcement in supervising youth development program.

• Provided developmentally appropriate support for a youth-led organizing campaign focused on education reform.
• Facilitated youth groups, organizing team meetings and assisted with planning community fora and events.
• Assisted proposal writing efforts for the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Youth Venture, the Catholic.
• Campaign for Human Development and Public Broadcasting Corporation.
• Researched and analyzed the power structure of zero tolerance school discipline policies for nonviolent offenses at the federal, state and local levels for youth-led organizing campaign.
• Assisted youth in conceptualizing and creating a documentary film and PSA for their organizing campaign.
• Drafted a restorative justice peer jury manual as an alternative to traditional punitive disciplinary action for nonviolent offenses for use in Detroit Public Schools.
• Managed development, design, layout and production of youth ‘zine’, “Can U Hear Me Now?”.
• Coordinated and supported youth with street outreach and formal presentations.
• Revised and distributed teen yellow pages, a comprehensive resource guide for Southwest Detroit youth.
• Assisted with the development and implementation of a formal evaluation for summer recreation programming.
• Tracked, monitored and reported monthly on program deliverables.
• Assisted with successful proposal writing efforts to raise funds from $500 - $50K with the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Youth Venture, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Public Broadcasting Organization
• Supervised and trained program support staff, youth organizers, interns and volunteers.

• Coordinated all aspects of Vital Voices Global Leadership Institute seminars for global and emerging women leaders.
• Managed the Afghan Back-to-Work/Back-to-School uniform project, an international collaboration between US and foreign government officials, USAID, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs, human rights organizations, and corporate donors.
• Assisted in the planning and organization of Vital Voices’ annual benefit and with development efforts.
• Supervised several college interns each semester.
• Provided support by managing database, procuring office supplies, and requesting building maintenance.
• Assisted Board Chair with event planning and correspondence with national Board of Directors.