Nancy Pandiscia

Lead Clinical Therapist Duties:

• Provide leadership, guidance and support to staff members.
• Enhance team collaboration through regular meetings, training sessions, and open communication channels for staff members.
• Develop and implement training programs for staff.
• Build a positive work environment that promotes employee satisfaction, retention, and professional growth by fostering open communication and providing feedback.
• Monitored program performance and outcomes for successful delivery of services.
• Maintained strict adherence to ethical guidelines in all aspects of practice, upholding the dignity and rights of clients at all times.
• Leverages excellent oral and written communication skills to interact professionally with staff and clients.

Supervisory Duties

• Mentor new social workers entering the field to promote professional growth and solidify foundational skills necessary for success.
• Mentor junior social workers, providing guidance on best practices and professional development opportunities.
• Mentor junior social workers, providing guidance on diagnosis, treatment modalities, transference and counter-transference.
• Work with junior social workers to maintained strict adherence to ethical guidelines in all aspects of practice, upholding the dignity and rights of clients at all times.
• Work with junior social workers to gain mastery in conducting thorough assessments of clients psychological, emotional, and social needs to inform targeted interventions.
• Ensured compliance with regulatory standards through meticulous documentation and accurate reporting.

Psychotherapist Duties:

• Quickly establish a safe and supportive environment for clients, fostering open communication and trust during therapy sessions.
• Built strong rapport with clients through active listening skills and empathic understanding of their experiences, fostering lasting therapeutic relationships.
• Use of trauma informed treatment modalities to create a safe and supportive environment to promote healing and recovery.
• Guide patients through exploration of personal trauma, resulting in significant emotional healing.
• Assess clients for the presentation of anxiety/panic and work to incorporate techniques to manage symptoms while exploring anxiety related impacts.
• Delivered mental health support for female patients suffering from post-partum depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
• Provide grief counseling in support of all tranitions of loss: death of a loved one, divorce or the end of a relationship, pet loss, job changes, ECT.
• Utilize mindfulness techniques during sessions to help clients develop greater self-awareness and coping skills for managing stressors.
• Evaluated client progress regularly, adjusting treatment plans as necessary based on changing needs or circumstances.
• Document client progress in confidential files using electronic health records.
• Provided crisis support and emergency care for clients and make appropriate referrals as needed.
• Referred clients to other specialists, institutions or support services as necessary.
• Engaged in continuous professional development to stay abreast of latest psychotherapy techniques and theories.
• Maintained caseload of 25+ clients per week.
• Attend supervision to collaborate on clinical cases for best client outcomes.

• Quickly establish a safe and supportive environment for clients, fostering open communication and trust during therapy sessions.
• Built strong rapport with clients through active listening skills and empathic understanding of their experiences, fostering lasting therapeutic relationships.
• Use of trauma informed treatment modalities to create a safe and supportive environment to promote healing and recovery.
• Guide patients through exploration of personal trauma, resulting in significant emotional healing.
• Assess clients for the presentation of anxiety/panic and work to incorporate techniques to manage symptoms while exploring anxiety related impacts.
• Delivered mental health support for female patients suffering from post-partum depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
• Provide Grief counseling in support of all transitions of loss: death of a loved one, divorce or the end of a relationship, pet loss, job changes, ECT.
• Utilize mindfulness techniques during sessions to help clients develop greater self-awareness and coping skills for managing stressors.
• Evaluated client progress regularly, adjusting treatment plans as necessary based on changing needs or circumstances.
• Document client progress in confidential files using electronic health records.
• Provided crisis support and emergency care for clients and make appropriate referrals as needed.
• Referred clients to other specialists, institutions or support services as necessary.
• Engaged in continuous professional development to stay abreast of latest psychotherapy techniques and theories.
• Maintained caseload of 25+ clients per week.
• Attend supervision to collaborate on clinical cases for best client outcomes.

• Provide psychotherapy to patients who have experienced trauma as a result of motor vehicle accidents or slip and fall with a focus on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and relaxation training.
• Administer psychotherapy using mind-body awareness via Biofeedback therapies and equipment.
• Use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to assist patients to reframe negative thoughts to more positive projections.
• Provide psycho-education to assist patients to master mind-body techniques to aid in relaxation and reduction of stress related issues.

• Provide individual counseling to combat veterans coping with readjustment and PTSD
• Assess clients for PTSD and suicide risk
• Provide individual counseling to military family members struggling with veteran’s readjustment and PTSD
• Provide marital counseling to combat veterans and their spouses
• Created and co-facilitate an art therapy group for combat veterans
• Provide in home counseling to female veterans as a part of the Operation Sisterhood Program
• This program aims to meet the unique needs of female combat veterans
• Collaborate with client’s mental health team as needed to provide a continuity of care
• Create and implement treatment plans in partnership with clients
• Maintain timely progress notes
• Regularly meet with supervisor to discuss client cases

• Provided individual readjustment counseling to combat veterans seeking to overcome obstacles that have impacted a successful post-war readjustment.
• Assessed veterans for PTSD and suicide risk.
• Provided family counseling to veteran family members coping with veteran readjustment challenges.
• Co-facilitated a Vietnam veterans/PTSD support group where the focus was on maintaining relationships, building support networks and processing traumas.
• Created and co-facilitated an eight-week Art-Therapy group that focused on veterans using art to access emotions including: fear, anger, isolation, and strengths.
• Actively participated in weekly team meetings to discuss client cases and gain insight from colleagues regarding clinical cases.
• Co-facilitated a Sleep-Hygiene group for veterans.
• Implemented Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness/Mediation with clients to assist veterans to gain insight regarding issues which impact their sleep patterns.
• Assessed veterans at a Yellow Ribbon event where veterans are assessed at 30, 60, and 90 days post-discharge for readjustment issues.
• Maintained timely electron notes.

• Provided individual and couples counseling to expectant clients throughout pregnancy to assist clients to determine their childbirth preferences.
• Provided continuous emotional, physical and informational support to pregnant women and their partners throughout pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum recovery period.
• Provided non-pharmacological pain management from the onset of labor through the postpartum recovery period at the place of childbirth.
• Provide additional resources including postpartum doula care, feeding /breastfeeding support, mothers groups and educational resources
• Provided private and group childbirth education.

• Assisted the CEO with the renewal of grants and grant writing.
• Wrote a grant for a smoking cessation program to be administering at the community based center for HIV/AIDS clients and submitted to the Mac AIDS Fund for consideration.
• Assisted with fund raising efforts including the NJ AIDS Walk.

• Provided Case Management services to HIV/AIDS clients in need of assistance with resources for daily living.
• Used a harm reduction model to provide supportive services to clients engaging in potentially harmful behaviors.
• Co-facilitated a weekly support group for HIV/AIDS clients.
• Actively participated in weekly team meetings to discuss and address client needs.
• Provided individual counseling for one client to provide supportive therapy while client completed a Drug Court sentence.
• Worked closely with the housing manager to assist with securing permanent housing for clients.
• Completed medical billing for client services.
• Maintained and supervised the on-site food pantry.

• Co-facilitated intakes of new clients.
• Answered the domestic violence hotline.
• Completed 40 hours of Domestic Violence training.