Executive Summary
Effective, committed
professional with more than twenty years of consistent involvement in mental
health, education, human resources, and human services, including
administrative and supervisory responsibilities. Private practice focusing
on adolescents, adults, couples and families in both individual and group
settings. Research
contributions to several major studies and monographs, including numerous
independent professional publications.
Areas of Expertise
Core Competencies
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Substantial organizational and supervisory proficiency
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Administration and supervision of diverse personnel
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Administration and dispersion of budgets in excess of
$250,000
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Management consultation, corporate restructuring, and
human resource re-distribution
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Consultant to schools and families regarding special
education-related issues and needs
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Demonstrated expertise in speaking and writing for
presentation and publication
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Comprehensive statistical and quantitative analysis
skill set
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Highly evolved degree of computer literacy
Clinical, Supervisory & Administrative Experience
Treatment Care Coordinator
11/04 -
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Patient
profile includes mono-axial, multi-axial, dual diagnosed, and poly-substance
abuse in adolescents and adults.
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Responsible
for patient intake, treatment planning, and after-care coordination, as well as
family interactions and contact with outside service professionals.
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Direct
patient contact includes both one-to- one and group settings.
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Therapeutic
responsibilities also include patient and family education, as well as group
sessions with acute psychiatric and chemically dependent inpatient and
outpatient populations.
Private Practice
Shoreline Counseling Associates,
Private Practice
The
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Patient population includes a broad range of adolescent
and adult clinical profiles, including mono-axial, multi-axial, dual-diagnosed,
traditional and non-traditional couples, and family systems.
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Familiarity with a wide range of psychosocial
dysfunction and disturbance, including borderline behavior, post-traumatic stress, addictive and compulsive behaviors, eating
disorders, preservative behavior patterns, and substance abuse.
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Extensive experience with various aspects of current and
emerging youth culture, including its typical and atypical subsets. Knowledge base encompasses issues of social
identification, generalized adolescent defiance, socially defiant/deviant
presentation, body modification, cult and para-cult activities, and
gang-related behavior.
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Demonstrated expertise in matters of both social trauma
and post-traumatic stress and adjustment, including grief, loss, and
bereavement, as well as generalized anxiety, and stress management.
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Practical focus on human relationship and communication,
including co-habitation, marriage, separation & divorce, of both traditional
and non-traditional families and couples.
Therapist in Residence, The
Mental Health Sanctuary (pro bono) 04/03 -
The Mental Health Sanctuary (www.mhsanctuary.com),
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Discretionary
response to filtered e mail inquiries regarding issues of mental and behavioral
health, services, best practice, and related concerns. HIPPA and APA Ethical Standard compliant for
electronic service delivery.
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Development
and delivery of clear, concise, and non-directive service support, resource,
and educational information to a broadly diverse clinically and non-clinically
acute population presenting a wide range of social, behavioral, and psychiatric
issues.
Director of Clinical Services, Boys & Girls Village
Day School 12/98 02/03
Interim-Acting Clinical Coordinator, Sub-acute Step-down
Residence 09/98 12/98
Boys & Girls Youth
and Family Services, Inc.,
Consulting Clinician 09/96 - 10/98
Consulting Clinician 01/94 - 06/96
Research Director 12/92 - 01/96
National Science
Foundation,
Counselor / Adjunct Faculty 01/92 - 12/93
Counselor / Adjunct Faculty 01/90 - 12/91
Staff Psychologist 06/88 - 12/91
Edwin Schlossberg,
Inc.,
Private Practice
Counselor / Academic Advisor / Adjunct Faculty 09/87 - 12/90
Counselor / Peer Counseling Program Supervisor 09/87 - 06/88
Counselor / Peer Supervisor / Research Associate 09/86 - 06/88
Counselor / Research Associate 09/85 - 09/86
Counselor / Adjunct Faculty 09/84 - 06/86
Counselor / Gang Liaison 09/82 - 09/84
Child Guidance Clinic
for
Demonstrated
Continuum of Competencies
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Development
and elaboration of a psychoanalytic model that integrates classical
psychoanalytic practice, object relations, archetypal theory and Eastern
psychological teachings as they apply to the post-modern psychodynamic process.
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Suicide
prevention and substance abuse counseling with both at-risk and non-at-risk
individuals.
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Substance
abuse, relationship and career counseling in several corporate (Fortune 500)
settings.
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Development
of treatment programs tailored to individual, special needs adolescents.
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Contribution
to the publication of a short version of the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory,
including tests for validity and reliability, as well as the application of
both the original and adapted versions in a corporate setting.
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Development
of a multi-tiered multivariate analysis model for the analysis of longitudinal
culture-influence data incorporated into an interactive educational kiosk
installed at the Smithsonian Institute.
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Foundation
research for a White Paper published by the Institute for Learning Technologies
at
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Supervision
of a university level peer-counseling program, including several weekend-long
retreat/training intensives with future peer counselors, along with program
development of individual and group counseling techniques.
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Curriculum
development and presentation for graduate and undergraduate classes in
Introductory Psychology, Advanced Statistics, Developmental, Abnormal, Clinical
and Counseling Psychology.
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Clinical
work with PTSD-diagnosed, substance addicted Vietnam veterans.
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Liaison
between Social Service authorities and gang members concerning programs, etc.
at the street level. This work also
included counseling concerning substance abuse, adolescent sexual behavior,
violent crime and other clinically defined anti-social behaviors.
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Participation
in the development and presentation of a Substance Abuse Education Program for
primary school children.
Certifications & Licensure
National
Board of Certified Counselors, National
Certification (NBCC, NCC)
National
Association of Clinical Forensic Counseling, Natl Certification (NACFC, DCFC)
National
Institute of Sports Counseling, National
Certification (NISC, DSC)
CT
State License #000869
NY
State License Pending
National
Heart Association, CPR/AED Certification
Crisis
Prevention Institute, CPI Certification
Academic Background
6/88 - 8/91
9/86 - 6/88
9/86 - 6/87 Columbia
University, NY; Master of Arts:
Organizational Behavior, en passant
9/84 - 6/86 University
of Hartford, CT; Master of Arts:
Experimental Psychology
9/80 - 6/84 Providence
College, RI; Bachelor of Arts:
Psychology; Mins: Philosophy, Theology
Memberships & Affiliations
National
Board of Certified Counselors
American
College of Clinical Forensic Counselors
American
Psychological Association
Connecticut
Psychological Association
American
Counseling Association
American
Mental Health Counselors Association
National
Association of School Psychologists
International
Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
National
Institute of Sports Counseling
Himalayan
International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy
Himalayan
Institute Teachers Association
Chinese
Kung Fu Wu Su Association
International
Kobayashi Shorin Ryu Federation