Tessa Li Pickard, LCSW

Provide trauma informed trainings to nonprofits who serve children and families

• Collaborated with multi disciplinary teams to successfully deliver comprehensive trauma informed care to children and families.
• Identify and develop training curriculum based on agency needs.
• Collaborated with teams to define, strategize, and implement trauma informed care.

• Provide parent consultations for caregivers seeking to strengthen their relationship with their child
• Provide short and long term clinical consultation to caregivers around separations, divorce, developmental/behavioral challenges, traumatic events and transitions
• Provide Clinical Case Consultation to LCSW & MFT's seeking support

• Provided individual and group supervision, utilizing a reflective practice model to a clinical team focused on early childhood at a community mental health clinic in San Francisco
• Oversaw clinicians delivering relationship-based modalities utilizing: Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Therapeutic Visitation Services (TVS), and Infant-Parent Therapy for Medi-Cal eligible clients and those involved with Foster Care Mental Health
• Collaborated with clinical staff to conduct assessments (CANS), establish diagnoses, and develop treatment plans
• Partnered with Foster Care Mental Health, Child Welfare Workers, Attorneys, and Child Welfare Judges to advocate for the clinical wellbeing of children in foster care (ages 0-5)
• Contracted with Foster Care Mental Health to assess the immediate mental health service needs of infants and toddlers (ages 0-2) upon their entry into foster care

• Created home-visiting program for medically fragile infants and caregivers to support healthy attachment formation after medical trauma and prolonged separation (NICU)
• Facilitated community based infant-parent groups focused on supporting positive relationship formation
• Participated in Post-Partum Depression Task Force at CPMC to support medical providers in assessing for and understanding the unique and specific mental health needs of the post partum period
• Provided home-based developmental assessments for medically fragile and high risk infants and children ages 0-3
• Identified developmental delays and made recommendations on early intervention programming
• Counseled families on issues related to grief, trauma, disability, and parenting a medically fragile infant

• Maintained supervisory responsibilities for mental health aids
• Provided individual & group therapy
• Provided clinical consultation to teaching & support staff