Resume

• 2016

  Sydney River Elementary

  Coaching

  Healthcare

  Mental Health

  Wellness

  Teaching

  Matheson Fuller

  Matheson Fuller

  Family and Child Services of Washington DC

  Children's Aid Society of Cape Breton Victoria

  Thrive Counselling and Consulting

  Foundations for Home and Community

  Inc./ First Home Care

  Texas A&M University–Central Texas

  Nova Scotia Health Authority

  ICBTT

  Walden/Sierra Inc

  Metroplex Health System - Behavioral Health Center

  Charles County Health Department - Mental Health and Addictions

  Family Services of Eastern Nova Scotia

  Sydney

  NS

  Owner/ sole proprietor and clinical social worker providing individual therapy for children

  adolescents and adults. Also provide Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. EMDR

  Emotion focused therapy

  DBT skills

  CBT

  and Mindfulness. Therapeutic/ trauma sensitive yoga.

  Licensed Clinical Social Worker

  Thrive Counselling and Consulting

  White Plains

  Maryland

  MSW internship. Duties included completing clinical mental health intake assessments with child

  adolescent and adult populations; conducting individual

  family

  couples and group therapy; developing appropriate treatment plans and co-leading two psychoeducational groups.

  Clinical Social Work Intern

  Charles County Health Department - Mental Health and Addictions

  Waldorf

  Maryland

  Duties included clinical case management of children and adolescents placed in treatment foster care; to include weekly home visits

  treatment planning

  advocacy and referral to appropriate services

  counseling

  and education and support to youth

  foster parents and biological family members. In October 2003

  I took the position of Program Manager. Duties included administrative and clinical management of a treatment foster care agency; to include supervision of all staff

  program development

  clinical treatment planning

  intake and placement management

  and communication with referral agency staff and foster parents.

  Foster Care Social Worker/ Program Manager

  Foundations for Home and Community

  Inc./ First Home Care

  Leonardtown

  Maryland

  Duties included conducting adolescent intake assessments and providing individual and group psycho-educational services in the areas of addiction and anger management. This position also included providing clinical services to adolescents in an in-school program at area middle and high schools as part of a multidisciplinary team with school staff. Routine coverage of the agency’s crisis hotline and in-patient adult addictions unit were also responsibilities in this role.\n

  MSAP Adolescent Addiction Counselor

  Walden/Sierra Inc

  Glace Bay and North Sydney

  NS

  Duties included conducting investigations into allegations of child abuse and neglect; providing preventive in-home services to children and their families; providing referrals to needed services; educating and counseling families; treatment planning; and attending and testifying in court hearings. Supervised student interns who developed a summer recreation program

  Child Protection Worker

  Children's Aid Society of Cape Breton Victoria

  Sydney

  NS

  Provided assessment

  evaluation

  and treatment of youth who are struggling with significant behavioural and/or mental health concerns

  as part of a multidisciplinary

  community-based

  family-focused treatment team.\n

  Clinical Therapist

  Nova Scotia Health Authority

  ICBTT

  Killeen

  Texas

  Taught various courses in the BSW program

  to include Methods and Skills of Interviewing

  Mental Health and Social Work

  Introduction to Social Work

  and Social Welfare in America. Designed and taught online course

  Working with Groups. Received Adjunct Professor of the Year award in Spring 2015.

  Adjunct Professor

  Texas A&M University–Central Texas

  Killeen

  Texas

  As part of the in-patient multidisciplinary mental health team

  I provided social work case management and therapy services for clients admitted to inpatient units as well as youth in the partial day program. Child

  adolescent and adult clients. Treatment planning

  individual and family therapy

  crisis counseling. Provided leadership to the social work team as social work coordinator for part of 2011 as well as 2013-2014.

  Social Worker/ Social Work Coordinator

  Metroplex Health System - Behavioral Health Center

  Sydney and Glace Bay

  NS

  Provided strength based

  solution focused therapy for individuals and couples. Children

  teens and adults. Grief and loss

  trauma

  mental health

  divorce/ separation/ coparenting.

  Clinical Therapist

  Family Services of Eastern Nova Scotia

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Duties included clinical case management for children and adolescents in the foster care system. Specific tasks included treatment planning; supervision of access visits between youth and their family members; coordination of services; and home visits.

  Foster Care Social Worker

  Family and Child Services of Washington DC

• 2001

  Master of Social Work - MSW

  Social Work

  University of Maryland Baltimore

• 1997

  BSW

  Social Work

  Carleton University

• 1995

  Associate's degree

  Social Service Worker

  Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology

• 1990

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  Psychology and Law

  Carleton University

• Nova Scotia College of Social Workers