career objective                              

patient-focused licensed clinical social worker eager to contribute expertise and excellent communication, counseling, and advocacy skills towards supporting a progressive organization in providing mental health support services

profile                                                

ø  offer numerous years of experience providing a broad range of individual and group psychotherapy services to diverse populations, including children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and families, in in-patient and out-patient settings

ø  develop and implement patient-specific individual plans of care (ipc), deliver psychological assessments and diagnoses, coordinate discharge planning, and oversee administrative functions

ø  conduct psychosocial evaluations, er psych emergency evaluations, probable cause hearings, t-con applications, hmo clinical reviews, and weekly group case presentations and treatment plan reviews

ø  solid experience in crisis intervention and community advocacy

ø  proactively collaborate with mental health personnel, physicians, interdisciplinary specialists, and community resources to optimize provision of patient care

ø  train, supervise, and lead top-performing support teams

ø  apply dynamic communication and listening skills towards building productive patient relations

ø  effectively ensure compliance with established protocol / policies / procedures

 

~ key achievements ~

• as a psychology consultant at boyle heights, worked with 45-60 adult clients per day and partnered with head administrator to oversee all unlicensed staff
• in addition to serving as acting social work director responsible for oversight of staff providing clinical social work services and psychiatric emergency evaluations, provided psychological consultation services for 60-70 clients per day at good shepherd adult day health care center
• successfully performed a range of functions and steered treatment team activity at glendale adventist medical center s 20-bed psychiatric medical acute care unit
• established and directed psychiatric emergency team for 60+ beds in edgemont hospital; trained and supervised staff, msw interns, mfcc trainees, and case managers
• as psychiatric emergency team evaluator, provided psychiatric evaluations and 5150 involuntary psychiatric holds for edgemont, van nuys, and ucla hospitals
• at el nido services, provided individual and conjoint psychotherapy for children with histories of sexual abuse and parental neglect, adolescents in the los angeles county juvenile diversion program, and parents in need of specialized support and chemical dependency counseling
• played an integral role in developing queens hospital center s groundbreaking in-school psychotherapy programs for troubled junior high school students

professional experience                

private practice, marina del rey, ca                                                                                          2001 c present

licensed clinical social worker psychotherapist

 

kaiser permanente outpatient psychiatry department, west los angeles, ca                              2001 c present   

licensed clinical social worker psychotherapist

 

boyle heights adult day health care center, los angeles, ca                                                    2001

psychology consultant

 

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good shepherd adult day health care center, los angeles, ca                                                  2000 c 2001

acting social work director and psychology consultant

 

glendale adventist medical center, psychiatric institute, glendale, ca                                        2000 

psychiatric case manager / administrator, crisis team evaluator 

 

edgemont hospital, los angeles, ca                                                                                        1998 c 1999                                                                                                                                               director, psychiatric emergency team

 

allcare and associated hospitals, los angeles, san fernando valley, and westwood, ca           1997 c 1998

psychiatric emergency team evaluator (consultant)

 

private practice, beverly hills and san fernando valley, ca                                                        1993 c 1997

associate and licensed clinical social worker

 

ei nido services, los angeles and inglewood, ca                                                                      1991 c 1993  

associate clinical social worker

 

staff builders: home health care agency, west los angeles, ca                                               1989 c 1991

associate clinical social worker

 

woodhull medical and mental health center, brooklyn, ny                                                          1987 c 1989

licensed psychiatric social worker, child & adolescent psychiatric clinic

 

queens hospital center, queens, ny                                                                                         1985 c 1987

licensed psychiatric social worker, child & adolescent psychiatric clinic / on-site mental health program

education                                           

columbia university, new york, ny                                                                                            1984

master of science in clinical social work

 

queens college cuny, flushing, ny                                                                                          1982

bachelor of arts in psychology and sociology

 

~ professional credentials ~

lps county certified c los angeles, ca                                                                                    1999

licensed by the state of california, lcsw, lcs # 18156                                                             1995

licensed by the state of new york, csw, lcs # 33760                                                             1985

 

~ affiliations ~

national association of social workers ~ american professional agency, inc. ~

columbia university alumni association of southern california