Lara Zammit

• Provide psychotherapy to adolescents and adults with trauma, mood disorders, neurodivergence, and relational challenges to promote mental health and improve client functioning
• Integrate EMDR, DBT, and psychodynamic approaches within somatic, polyvagal, and attachment frameworks to deliver tailored treatment, maintaining a consistent caseload of 30 clients for ongoing support
• Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments at intake to develop individualized treatment plans that effectively address clients’ unique needs and goals
• Achieved the highest client retention rate at the practice by building strong therapeutic rapport and fostering client engagement, enhancing treatment outcomes
• Collaborate with a team of clinical therapists for case consultation and supervision to ensure evidence-based practice and continuous professional development
• Utilize SimplePractice for accurate clinical documentation and treatment planning to maintain compliance with regulatory standards

● Operate the 24-hour crisis hotline in which active listening and safety planning was used to respond to in crisis situations and support youth’s agency

● Utilized the Power and Control wheel theory and assessed degree of lethality to created aid in shelter determinations and empowering solutions

Participate in a 40-hour training session which outlined the neurobiological and psychosocial context of trauma to inform my volunteer work

· Contribute to a multi-disciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologist, recreation therapist and nurses to address the treatment goals of clients using an integrative and wholistic approach

· Co-facilitate group therapy in which I implement CBT and DBT based interventions using a psychodynamic framework to support a therapeutic group process

· Receive psychodynamic supervision focusing on topics of transference, attachment, group process, family dynamics and trauma-based interventions

· Help patients create treatment plans composed of SMART short term and long goals to structure their treatment in program

· Process biopsychosocial intake assessments to promote understanding of family dynamics and developmental history of adolescents entering the program