Tyisha Jones
Resilient Child Therapy Institute
Washington,DC
1
Certification
12
years of professional experience
With over ten years of experience as a mental health and human services professional, I have supported youth and adults across diverse settings and at the intersection of education, homelessness, sexual violence, mental health, and other social justice and systemic issues.
My professional experience includes serving as a clinician, case manager, and community support worker, where I have developed and maintained strong partnerships with school administrators, multidisciplinary professionals—including social workers, psychologists, nurse practitioners, and mental health providers—and nonprofit organizations. Through these collaborations, I have worked to identify barriers, assess individual and systemic needs, and strengthen access to resources and services that promote academic success, mental health, and overall wellness.
I have also served as a liaison between communities and partner organizations, coordinating and implementing interventions and support services designed to address gaps in education, behavioral health, wellness, and family needs. My work is grounded in a collaborative, culturally responsive, and strengths-based approach focused on advocacy, empowerment, and improving outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
Work History
Therapist
2 Years 6 Months- Manages a caseload of up to 10 clients per week.
- Conducts intake evaluations and bio-psychosocial assessments.
- Provides crisis intervention and support to clients experiencing acute distress.
- Facilitates individual and group therapy sessions to promote emotional well-being.
- Develops personalized treatment plans based on client assessments and needs.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate comprehensive care for families.
- Utilizes evidence-based practices to enhance therapeutic outcomes in clients.
Therapist
6 Years 11 Months- Manages a caseload of up to 15 clients per week,
- Conducts intakes for youth aged clients two and up by completing bio-psychosocial and diagnostic assessments.
- Creates treatment plans.
- Provides therapy including play therapy, expressive arts, somatic, client-centered, and trauma-informed approaches.
- Facilitates groups for families to increase parent-child cohesion.
- Participates in on-going training (group supervision, continued education, and mental health trainings).
- Assists clients through treatment including triaging to other multi-disciplinary approaches to ensure successful discharge.
Short-term Contractor (Community Support Worker)
9 Months- Provided school-based mental health triage support onsite to high-school students and families.
- Conducted intake assessments and created goal-plans.
- Linked families to community resources such as housing, food, and medical Bridges partnerships between the school and community organization.
Short-term Contractor (Early Childhood Assessor)
3 Months- Performed psychological assessments on children ages two through five, encompassing domains of physical, social, cognitive, communication, and math.
- Evaluated children's responses and reactions to psychological testing by recording and coding themes and patterns.
- Documented data by keeping a tracker of all assessments and observations.
- Co-scored with other assessors to gather collective data by observing and taking notes.
Case Manager
1 Year 5 Months- Connected homeless, post-committed and committed youth between the ages of 18 and 24 to resources, including housing, employment and education, medical, and mental health and crisis services.
- Facilitated the entire intake process for youth seeking housing and wrap-around services, including information collection, assessment of needs, goal setting, scheduling of meetings, and move-in.
- Maintained relationships between youth and service providers by hosting weekly and monthly meetings, and collecting data and compiling monthly service reports that measure outcomes in that time period.
- Provided community-based psycho-education via weekly case management during which clients receive insight about ongoing issues, and connection to providers during group life skills meetings.
- Applied strength-based solution focused clinical principles to assist clients in meeting goals.
- Provided services to tenants using harm reduction and trauma-informed care principles.
Case Manager
2 Years 10 Months- Managed a permanent supportive housing program for individuals experiencing homelessness and chronic disabilities, including intake, move-in, connection to interventions, collaborating with District-wide service providers, and performance of administrative duties.
- Implemented a calendar of activities that took place at the facility, some of which required collaboration with District agencies.
- Compiled service reports that tracked programmatic outcomes.
Lead Advocate of Training and Community Engagement
1 Year 6 Months- Recruited volunteers and facilitated the volunteer experience for aspiring crisis intervention hotline specialists by launching media campaigns, street canvassing, and marketing the organization at community engagement events, various D.C.-area schools, and service providers.
- Co-hosted a 60-hour training cycle to onboard hotline advocates. Touched on crisis intervention techniques and principles needed to connect survivors to services and help them through crises, and a list of legal and medical services for survivors.
- Co-managed the supervision experience and supported hotline advocates via follow-up meetings that allowed them to disclose their experiences, and updated crisis intervention techniques.
- Delivered psycho-educational lessons at schools and social service agencies, including but not limited to: good touch/ bad touch and survivor-centered focused curricula.
- Conducted crisis phone calls for survivors and supported survivors with triage to the aligned agencies and practitioners.
Education
Master of Arts - Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Certification
- LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
- 200-hour Registered Yoga Instructor
Timeline
Therapist
Safe Space for Family Healing
02.2024 - CurrentRead More
Therapist
Resilient Child Therapy Institute
09.2019 - CurrentRead More
Short-term Contractor (Community Support Worker)
Mary's Center
08.2019 - 05.2020Read More
Short-term Contractor (Early Childhood Assessor)
AppleTree Institute for Education and Innovation
04.2019 - 07.2019Read More
Case Manager
Covenant House Greater Washington
10.2017 - 03.2019Read More
Lead Advocate of Training and Community Engagement
DC Rape Crisis Center
01.2015 - 07.2016Read More
Case Manager
Housing Up
09.2014 - 07.2017Read More
Trinity Washington University
Master of Arts from Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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The Pennsylvania State University
Bachelor of Arts from Psychology
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