SHELBY FUNK
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
THERAPIST
CENTERSTONE
03.2025 - Current
- I provide therapeutic services as an integrative mental health therapist, which includes doing biopsychosocial assessments during intakes.
- I have experience using assessments such as the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and the MDQ just to name a few.
- I am currently carrying a caseload of 123+ individuals whom I see monthly.
- I primarily use a Humanistic approach utilizing person-centered theory and integrate modalities such as CBT, DBT, Psychodynamic, Mindfulness and more.
- I provide therapy for a diverse population, seeing ages 4-99 years old and have experience treating individuals, families, LGTBQ+, and group therapy.
- One area I excel in is documentation and have been acknowledged for this skill publicly at my workplace.
- I have already passed the National Counselors Exam (NCE) and applied for NCC certification as I am working to become a licensed therapist.
THERAPIST INTERN
CENTERSTONE
09.2023 - 08.2024
- I provided therapeutic services as an intern clinician to 20+ individuals each month as a part of fulfilling the MAC program.
- I completed just short of 1,000 clinical hours during my internship and finished schooling as of December 2024.
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY
TIMS FORD STATE PARK - TN DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
03.2022 - 03.2025
- I provide customer service to a wide range of diverse individuals who visit our park.
- I meet new people every day and assist them in learning about our park and answering any questions they may have.
- I strive each day to provide unmatched customer service to our visitors using everything I have learned from acquiring my degree in psychology.
- I exercise accounting skills to open and close the gift shop each day. This includes running reports, counting money as well as balancing and documenting, preparing deposits, etc.
- I assist with procurement activities for the park, as well as paying bills. This requires extreme attention to detail in order to comply with state contracts and process payments correctly.
- I brainstorm, plan, and manage new events that take place at the park. This includes building relationships in the community and networking with other businesses to be successful.
- I have applied for various grants to improve the park without being prompted. I took the initiative to apply to a TEAP grant for new trails and won the grant for $217,060.
- I also initiated an 'all inclusive' playground project for the park to target the underserved demographic of disabled children and adults which I am still in the process of completing.
- I am a self-starter and highly motivated to create change that impacts my community in a meaningful way.
DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (TULLAHOMA)
01.2020 - 11.2020
- Team leader for staff and direct support professional for special needs adult clients.
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
11.2019 - 01.2020
- Substitute teacher for Franklin County schools.
LEAD ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
TN DEPT. OF HEALTH (NASHVILLE)
01.2016 - 06.2019
OWNER
FUNK'D UP SIGNS
03.2012 - 01.2016
- Lead a team of direct support professionals and train them in the proper procedures for supporting our clients, as well as managing staff schedules and reporting staff hours to administration.
- Ensure staff is administering medications to the client properly.
- Direct care for clients that involves taking them out into the community, so they may experience life as any other individual and supporting clients to accomplish their own personal goals.
- Direct support for staff in the home if they are feeling overwhelmed, to include being responsible to step in for staff if they can't make it to work.
- Creating and implementing healthy, well-balanced meals that contribute to a healthy lifestyle; to include grocery shopping and meal planning.
- Training staff to properly put the required information into the database.
- Managing staff duties such as cleaning schedules and ensuring staff completes their assigned duties (such as putting notes, meals, and medication administered into the database).
- Ensure that clients get to their appointments on time and all accommodations are made for the client ahead of schedule.
- Maintain record keeping of all medications and documentation for each prescription.
- See the potential strengths in my staff and point them out, as well as identify weaknesses and encourage and support them to grow in those areas. Every individual has potential to shine!
- Lead administrator for VFC and supervisor to one employee. Building relationships with private providers state-wide, uniting them with CDC (Centers for Disease Control) was top priority.
- I contributed to the continuous development of TennIIS, an ISS database for immunization information. This includes collaboration with external stakeholders (STC) and internal stakeholders (TIP & CDC); I tested new releases and system patches, identifying areas that didn't work or necessitated troubleshooting.
- Contributed ideas and testing to utilize REDCap for tracking all VFC Enrollment data, allowing VFC to transfer records from Excel spreadsheets to a more versatile location, enabling overall efficiency throughout our program.
- Identified strengths of colleagues and sought their assistance with new ideas to engage Providers and counter the low response levels to important prompts (one example would be to improve notifications by utilizing eye catching & interesting infographics instead of wordy emails).
- Self-starter and proactive. Used marketing and sales skills to generate business.
- Taught myself how to use Photoshop to design images, then hand carved and burned custom designs into wood.
- Kept track of business operations through creating Excel spreadsheets.
INSURANCE AGENT
STATE FARM INSURANCE
11.2010 - 12.2011
INSURANCE AGENT
HOBB'S INSURANCE AGENCY
02.2009 - 11.2010
Timeline
THERAPIST
CENTERSTONE
03.2025 - Current
THERAPIST INTERN
CENTERSTONE
09.2023 - 08.2024
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY
TIMS FORD STATE PARK - TN DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION
03.2022 - 03.2025
DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (TULLAHOMA)
01.2020 - 11.2020
SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
11.2019 - 01.2020
LEAD ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
TN DEPT. OF HEALTH (NASHVILLE)
01.2016 - 06.2019
OWNER
FUNK'D UP SIGNS
03.2012 - 01.2016
INSURANCE AGENT
STATE FARM INSURANCE
11.2010 - 12.2011
INSURANCE AGENT
HOBB'S INSURANCE AGENCY
02.2009 - 11.2010