Seasoned Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant with a long working history at The Counseling Center of Columbiana County. Adept in fostering resilience in children through social-emotional learning. Excelled in collaborative problem solving and discovering child/family strengths for treatment planning. Committed to enhancing early childhood mental health.
Facilitated social-emotional growth and helped build further resiliency in children using an Incredible Years based program in the classroom and group setting and using DECA to assess and help increase child resiliency. Provided staff with observations for referred children, interventions, modeling, individual/classroom support and staff training. Encouraged family collaboration, and provided support and linkage. Advocacy for child/family/staff. Teaching and utilization of trauma informed care. Teamwork and collaboration with professionals.
Departed position following husband's job relocation.
Worked with youth and their families to assess needs; provide direct interventions; coordinated services; advocated on behalf of the youth/family; monitored the youth in the home, school and community; provided education; support and crisis intervention services and linked/referred youth and their families to community resources.
Trained in:
- Trauma
- Autism
- Crisis Intervention
- PAX Tools
- Multiple Devereux trainings including DECA
- Georgetown
- Flip it!
- Incredible Infant Training
- Wrap Around