Meredith Helen Clark
Tempe,AZ
Summary
Competent and passionate professional looking to assist people on their healing journey's utilizing multiple modalities of care from an integrative, trauma-informed perspective. Focused on helping clients improve wellbeing to allow for improved confidence, functioning, communication, and perspective. Hardworking, reliable, and dedicated leader and team member, eager to learn and be of service.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Behavioral Health Technician Intern
La Frontera EMPACT - Trauma Healing Services
Tempe, AZ
08.2021 - Current
- Built and maintained positive staff relationships to better serve clients.
- Completed documentation for every client encounter and forwarded to correct personnel for review.
- Facilitated individual and group counseling with diverse group of clients utilizing trauma-informed perspective and range of modalities, including DBT and EMDR
- Performed client intake procedures according to internal standards for new admissions.
Graduate Research Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
01.2020 - Current
- Performed qualitative analysis.
- Assisted on wide range of projects; including developing curriculum for medical students to help them to better empathize with their patients, project that considered role of inequalities in environmental degradation and COVID-19, project that looks at how artists across world address sexual violence.
- Contributed to professionally-written scientific paper for publication.
- Gathered, reviewed, and summarized literature from scientific journals such as SciFinder and PubMed and produced graphs and other scientific calculations using MS Excel.
- Recorded data and maintained source documentation following good documentation practices.
Adjunct Faculty Professor
Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ
08.2019 - Current
- Engaged students with insightful and compelling classroom discussion of topics relevant to coursework to boost student learning and retention.
- Developed and kindled professional relationships with students to better communicate and enhance instruction.
- Identified academic strengths and obstacles and developed instructional techniques to accommodate different learning styles.
- Developed and taught online and in-person classes; including WST 209: Women & Film and WST 161: History of American Women Since 1920.
Adjunct Faculty Professor
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
05.2017 - 08.2019
- Engaged students with insightful and compelling classroom discussion of topics relevant to coursework to boost student learning and retention.
- Developed and kindled professional relationships with students to better communicate and enhance instruction.
- Identified academic strengths and obstacles and developed instructional techniques to accommodate different learning styles.
- Collaborated with faculty members in designing Gender Studies curriculum for departmental courses, including Women & Sexuality.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
Tempe, AZ
08.2011 - 05.2017
- Checked assignments, proctored tests, and provided grades according to university standards.
- Mentored students through office hours and one-on-one communication.
- Worked with teachers in evaluating student progress, needs and gains.
- Documented attendance and completed assignments to maintain full class and student records.
- Developed and taught in-person, hybrid, and online courses via Blackboard and Canvas for class sizes ranging from 8 students to over 300 students.
- Instructor on record for Women & Gender in Contemporary Society; Race, Class & Gender; Women & Sexuality; Human-Animal Studies; Gender, Science & Technology; History of American Feminist Thought; Fast Food Nation, and Gender & Popular Culture at Arizona State University.
Editor-in-Chief
The University Of Akron
Akron, OH
05.2010 - 05.2011
- Oversaw, trained and developed writers and associates, assistants and junior editors to optimize production and quality of work.
- Supported and encouraged editorial board to provide independent and objective advice, opinions and perspectives to enhance publication.
- Adhered to ethical guidelines and standards to promote responsible publication and media practices.
- Established editorial direction and publication policies and procedures and monitored and maintained functional consistency.
Education
Master of Counseling - Counseling
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ05.2022
Ph.D. - Gender Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ05.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Interdisciplinary Anthropology & Psychology
University of Akron
Akron, OH05.2011
Skills
- Individual and Group Trauma-Informed Counseling
- Ethical Standards
- Needs Assessment
- Behavioral Health Electronic Health Records
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Healing, ACT
- Community Mental Health Programs
- Classroom and Online Instruction and Curriculum Development
- Advocacy via Community Events and Organizing
- Leadership Skills
Certification
Somatic & Attachment Focused (S.A.F.E.) EMDR
Timeline
Behavioral Health Technician Intern
La Frontera EMPACT - Trauma Healing Services
08.2021 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
01.2020 - Current
Adjunct Faculty Professor
Mesa Community College
08.2019 - Current
Adjunct Faculty Professor
Arizona State University
05.2017 - 08.2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus
08.2011 - 05.2017
Editor-in-Chief
The University Of Akron
05.2010 - 05.2011
Master of Counseling - Counseling
Arizona State University
Ph.D. - Gender Studies
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Arts - Interdisciplinary Anthropology & Psychology
University of Akron
Somatic & Attachment Focused (S.A.F.E.) EMDR
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