United Healthcare

Manager of Medical Clinical Operations/Foster Care Program Manager

Heidi worked at United Healthcare as a Manager of Medical Clinical Operations/Foster Care Program Manager

United Healthcare

Associate Director of Foster Care & Special Programs

Heidi worked at United Healthcare as a Associate Director of Foster Care & Special Programs

Castlewood Treatment Center

Administrative Director

Coordinate all intake/discharge procedures; Develop all policies and procedures of the Center; Provide administrative & clinical supervision for all clinical and administrative staff; Provide crisis assessment & intervention; Design & supervise clinical interventions for all clients in the program; Provide individual and family therapy for assigned caseload; Conduct diagnostic assessments; Develop caseload assignments; Coordinate treatment team and staff trainings; Monitor all programming and develop modifications as necessary; Facilitate group, individual, and family therapies, and therapeutic meals & supervise clinical staff facilitating these services as well; Coordinate facility management; Supervise milieu and program management
; Develop new programs as assigned; Chair privacy board, participate in research committee, client care committee, administrative & clinical teams/committees, electronic medical record development committee, emergency management committee, apartment & client manual & apartment clinical committees, specialty clinical committee, training/education committee; Spearheaded CARF & Joint Commission Accreditations for Intensive Outpatient program with 0 deficiencies.

Strickler & Associates

Owner & Psychotherapist

Owned and ran private practice psychotherapy business specializing in individuals and families, children and adolescents. Also specialized in adults with eating disorders and substance use problems, and severe and persistent mental illness. Maintained contracts with child protective services and juvenile probation, third-party payers, and employee assistance programs.

Great Circle

Community Counseling Director

Provision of clinical therapy services for ages 2 to adults specializing in trauma, eating disorders, and internalizing and externalizing behavior disorders in children & adolescents & dissociative disorders in all ages. Provision of clinical and administrative supervision. Provision of licensure supervision for LCSW licensure. Development of program policy and procedure. Participation in utilization review process.

Certified Eating Disorder Specialist
Certified Trauma and Loss Specialist
Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor
Certified Anger Resolution Therapist
LCSW Supervisor MO & TX

Texas A & M Central Texas (Formerly Tarleton State University - Central Texas)

Assistant Professor 2007-2011; Adjunct 2011-2015)

Courses taught - Practice I (Micro Interventions); Practice II (Macro Practice); Methods of Social Work Research; Social Work and Mental Health; Social Work Statistics; Service Learning; Field Seminar I; Field Seminar II; Eating Disorders; Crisis & Trauma Intervention; At Risk Youth; Child/Adolescent Mental Health Issues; Mezzo Interventions/Fun with Social Work Groups; Addictive Behaviors; Problems Ethics and Coping with Peer Pressure; Problems Professional Writing for Social Work I; Problems Professional Writing for Social Work II; Problems – Ethics & Social Work Education; Special Honors Course – Problems School and Clinical Social Work with Vulnerable Children and Adolescents (Problems Courses are Independent Studies for Select Groups of Students); Social Work & Spirituality

Committees: University Disability Committee (When Tarleton); University Assessment Committee; Library Committee; Committee for the creation of University Counseling Center; Special Committee called to address crisis related to Ft. Hood shooting

Additional Tasks Complete benchmarks for Council on Social Work Education Accreditation; Maintain & Analyze above benchmark data; Provide outside clinical supervision

The Interaction Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and Eating Disorders: A Review of the Relevant Literature

The Journal of Trauma and Treatment

This paper explores the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorders and eating disorders. The frequency with which the two types of disorders co-occur is explored. Additional exploration of comorbidity in specific populations is addressed. These populations include populations not widely explored in the literature, such as males, female veterans, and juvenile delinquents, as well as, populations that have been explored in the literature, such as clients who have experienced child sexual and physical abuse and neglect. Further, this paper explores specific core areas of dysfunction that overlap in eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Based on these core areas of dysfunction, focuses of additional symptomatology and treatment are discussed.

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member

National Institute of Trauma and Loss for Children

Certified Member

National Association for Play Therapy

Member of Registration & Continuing Education Committee; Member of Credentialing Committee

National Association of Social Workers

Heart of Texas Branch Chair of Professional Development Committee; Heart of Texas Branch Member of Steering Committee (2010-2011)

International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals

Certified Member