Biography

Rowan College-Gloucester County - Sociology

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Heather N.
Schmutz, MSW, LCSW
Camden, New Jersey
Private practice and independent contracted fully licensed clinical therapist (LCSW) practicing in the Camden and Burlington County area as well as a FT Clinician for an adolescent SPEC Program.

Career Experience Overview;
·Admissions (Sr. Assessment Coordinator) for a private psychiatric hospital under the UHS umbrella corporation.
·Per diem clinical therapist at a short-term outpatient acute care program conducting in-take assessments providing individual sessions, treating planning, group sessions, coordination with prescribing physicians, staff training, chart reviews, and ensuring community linkage prior to discharge.
·Career and educational focus on Mental Health, particularily servicing indigent populations and low income communities.
·Experience as a Partial Care Rehabilitation Counselor facilitating group and individual sessions.
·Mutliple years as an Intensive Residential Counselor
·Certification experienced with CANS, Screening for the state of NJ, CPR, First Aide, QPRT, CPI and HWC.
·DDD experience in the community, in-patient and educational system.
·Mainstream private and public school education in a teaching and aide capacity.


Areas of Specialty
•Trauma/PTSD
•Acute Care
•Autistic Spectrum Disorder
•Adolescent and Young Adults
•Family Systems Dynamics
•Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Base Model
•Personality Disorders
•Chronically Mental Ill
•Psychiatric Inpatient
•Mentally Ill Chemically Abusing
•Community Resources and Linkage
•Intimate Partner Violence

I continually seek to continue my education and skills via certifications focusing largely on trauma, ASD, adolescent and DBT techniques.