Individual & Group Clinical Supervision
On site or off site Group and Individual
Supervision for students and seasoned clinicians.
So
that I can be an effective supervisor you have to share cases. So
that your client's rights are honored and respected, you need to fully
inform the client of the purpose of this release of information and
request that a RELEASE OF INFORMATION FORM be signed prior to providing
me with any information. If you are a student working with an
agency, the agency must be informed of your intentions and are bnh\
equired to complete some paperwork for the release of their records for
supervision. If you are working for an agency, and they do not
have an eligible supervisor,bnh you can request that they hire me as a
contractual employee to provide supervision.
There
are some strict guidelines for becoming licensed as a Mental Health
Therapist in New York. New York State Department of Education Office of Professions requires that
applicants for licensure as Mental Health Counselor document 1 hour of supervision for every 20 hours of
clinical service.
For
more information about New York State's Regulations for Mental Health
Counseling, Licensure, and Supervision contact the Office
of Professions.
Credentials
I
am licensed as a New York Mental Health Counselor (LMHC, 2005: Active).
In addition, I hold a Professional Clinical Counselor license (LPCC) from the
State of Ohio (LPCC, 2001: Inactive) and a Mental Health Counselor license in
Massachusetts (LMHC, 2002: Inactive). I have over 10 years of experience
as a clinical counselor. Several of these years were working with a
variety of cases in non for profit and for profit agencies
in New York, Massachusetts and Ohio, and working with a variety of mental health issues,
life issues, and serious mental disorders. My licenses can be verified
through the following links:
New
York: New York Office of
Professions
Ohio:
Ohio Counselor and Social Worker
Board
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts
Division of Professional Licensure
Experience
**Mental
Health Counselor: Individual, Group & Couples Therapy
I have studied under and have been supervised by
many very wise clinicians with many years of experience in various areas of
expertise. One clinician, Mary Bratton, LPC from Toledo, Ohio,
supervised my work in an independent study with Women Trauma Survivors,
was instrumental in helping me understand how art as an option for
communication with Dissociative patients. She also taught me various techniques
in assisting patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. Mary
Bratton was well known in the Toledo area for her work with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), the DSM revision of Multiple
Personality Disorder (MPD) and Borderline Personality Disorders
(BPD).
Beginning
in 1997, under the supervision of Dr. Joyce
Wagoner, Ph.D., Clinical Director of Harbor Behavioral Healthcare, I
provided diagnostic/psychosocial assessments, individual and group therapy
in the outpatient program and Behavioral Management to Adolescent Male Sex offenders in
their residential facility. In 1998, I provided suicide risk and diagnostic/psychosocial assessments at the Lucas County Jail in Toledo,
Ohio, individual and group therapy with men and women of the forensic
population, and co facilitated Borderline
Personality Disorder Groups. In addition, I developed a suicide risk
assessment tool to determine the level of suicide watch for inmates.
Dr. Wagoner was not only well known for managing Harbor Behavioral Healthcare's Jail Project,
she was also instrumental in the development of the Men's Anger Management and
Women's Borderline Personality Disorder groups at Harbor. She is an extraordinary mentor and teacher and an inspiration in my
work as a clinician. She is also the inspiration behind The Aggression
Free Relationships Group, a Men Only group I developed to help
men with managing ANGER and relationship violence (a Power Point preview of this group
is available). In this group, we explore, from a psycho - educational/cognitive behavioral
approach, anger, physical and emotional abuse, aggressive behavior,
power/control, feelings of powerlessness, and how to be in a healthy
relationship.
In addition, I have had the opportunity to learn from
a variety of different supervisors and other colleagues, including, Psychologists,
Psychiatric Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, LCSW, and
Mental Health Counselors in Ohio, in my clinical peer supervision groups in
Massachusetts and with the many most talented clinical nurses, nurse
practitioners and clinicians at Four Winds Partial Hospital Program
in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Also,..
in my private practice in Clifton Park, New
York, I share an office with Carol Atwater,
Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, and feel very fortunate to be associated
with Dr. Atwater and able to
discuss with her some of the more complex psychological issues that motivate the
human mind/body/spirit.
I
also attribute much of my success as a clinician to so many of my
clients. They have taught me so much. I have worked with
men and women
survivors of trauma, men and women with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Borderline
Personality Disorder (BPD), Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD), Bipolar, Depression, Anxiety and various other mental
health disorders and issues. I have also worked with men and women in the forensic
population and even some suffering Acute Stress
Disorders/PTSD as a result of cult exposure. I have worked with men
and women struggling with every day issues, spiritual development,
alcohol disorders to the most severe of adult
mental disorders identified in the DSM-IV TR. I have worked in
residential facilities, adult detention facilities, non-for profit and
for profit mental health agencies and am currently in private practice.
Presenter
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am a presenter, providing education for a variety of topics including the following:
