YELENA REMUS MHC-LP
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
A dedicated, compassionate, and attuned mental health provider with 15 years of experience counseling adolescents in school based settings. Newer experience includes providing therapeutic services to adult and adolescent clients in a private practice space. Committed to creating a safe space for clients to explore, process, and develop a deeper understanding of their emotions, beliefs and experiences; including the ways in which past lived experiences impact their present day interpretations of and interactions with themselves and world.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Therapist
Therapy In The City LCSW
02.2023 - Current
- Facilitate weekly individual therapy sessions with adolescent and adult clients
- Participate in weekly didactics and peer case consultation groups
- Co-lead didactics on a monthly/bi-monthly basis
- Coordinate care with psychiatrists and medical doctors, as needed
- Engage in ongoing professional development opportunities.
Per Diem Therapist
02.2023 - Current
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
Monte Nido And Affiliates
10.2022 - 12.2022
- Lead and co-facilitate group counseling sessions; topics include: 1) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills, 2) open process group 3) mindfulness skills, 4) transitioning and preparing for lower levels of care
- Co-facilitate food exposure sessions as part of the eating disorder therapeutic treatment model
- Attend case consultation and processing meetings with interdisciplinary team of clinical directors, staff clinicians, nutritionist, psychiatrist, and recovery coaches to evaluate client treatment plans and determined next steps in care.
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
Intuitive Healing Psychotherapy
08.2022 - 10.2022
- Facilitated individual therapy sessions with clients, including intake and standard therapeutic sessions
- Utilized psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy modalities in the therapeutic work with clients
- Facilitated initial phone consultations with prospective clients
- Attended weekly group supervision and one-on-one clinical supervision sessions.
Middle School Counselor
Brooklyn Friends School
08.2018 - 06.2022
- Provided direct counseling services to students via individual and group counseling frameworks
- Advised school leadership team on decisions pertaining to the social, emotional, and mental health needs of middle school students
- Collaborated with members of leadership and student support teams to holistically identify student needs and implement supports that balanced the academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs of students
- Partnered with out of school therapists and providers to ensure the school was appropriately supporting students who were in need of additional academic and social-emotional support
- Established and planned school-wide programs and events that centered the social, emotional, and mental health needs of students
- Offered resources and lead professional development for teachers on various topics, including trauma informed best practices, mandated reporting and minimal facts interviewing, suicidal ideation and risk, and social emotional learning
- Implemented a DBT Skills in Schools social emotional learning curriculum
- Co-facilitated a book club discussion for colleagues; book club focused on understanding personal biases and how they inform the way educators show up in the classroom and in interactions with students
- Book: The Guide for
- White Women Who Teach Black Boys
School Counselor
Excellence Boys Charter School
08.2012 - 07.2018
- Provided direct counseling support to students, as per the IEP mandate and on an as-needed basis
- Partnered with families, teachers, services providers, members of the school leadership team, and other stakeholders on the focused goal of supporting the academic, social, emotional, and mental health wellbeing of students
- Led professional development presentations for teaching staff on topics pertaining to the counseling support system, including the counseling referral process, mandated reporting protocols, and suicide ideation protocols
- Served as a task manager, site supervisor, and clinical supervisor for interns and counselors.
Academic Guidance Counselor
Williamsburg Charter High School
08.2010 - 06.2012
- Provided individual and group academic counseling support
- Led a student leadership group.
School Counselor and Special Programs Coordinator
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School
08.2007 - 07.2010
- Provided direct counseling support to middle school students via individual and group counseling frameworks
- Co-chaired the school's Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (SPIRIT) group, an ethnically diverse student organization tasked with improving relationships among the students across different grades and between the student body and staff.
School Counselor
College Institute, Thomas S. Wootton High School
10.2007 - 06.2008
- Supported students through class selection and scheduling processes guided by student-specific goals
- Led small group sessions to teach College Institute students the organizational and executive functioning skills required for college level work.
Education
Advanced Certificate: Mental Health Counseling -
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY12.2022
Master of Science - School Counseling
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA05.2007
BBA - Marketing
Gwynedd Mercy University
Gwynedd Valley, PA05.2004
Skills
- Crisis intervention
- Knowledge of Simple Practice EHR system
- Culturally sensitive
- Relational and psychodynamically oriented
- DBT, CBT, and ERP trained
- Adolescent development
Timeline
Staff Therapist
Therapy In The City LCSW
02.2023 - Current
Per Diem Therapist
02.2023 - Current
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
Monte Nido And Affiliates
10.2022 - 12.2022
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
Intuitive Healing Psychotherapy
08.2022 - 10.2022
Middle School Counselor
Brooklyn Friends School
08.2018 - 06.2022
School Counselor
Excellence Boys Charter School
08.2012 - 07.2018
Academic Guidance Counselor
Williamsburg Charter High School
08.2010 - 06.2012
School Counselor
College Institute, Thomas S. Wootton High School
10.2007 - 06.2008
School Counselor and Special Programs Coordinator
Thomas W. Pyle Middle School
08.2007 - 07.2010
Advanced Certificate: Mental Health Counseling -
Hofstra University
Master of Science - School Counseling
Temple University
BBA - Marketing
Gwynedd Mercy University
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