Experience

• Boston Comprehensive Treatment Center

  Addictions Recovery Psychotherapist

  Provide treatment and support to assist patients in their recovery from addictions, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, eating disorders, or other behavioral problems, assists with modifying problem behaviors; may also provide counseling services to families of patients through an outpatient setting. Incorporate Maternal Behavioral Health services into group therapy sessions for clients currently receiving Methadone or Subutex maintenance therapy.
  
  • Conduct individual counseling sessions, as scheduled and documents as required
  • Conduct group and/or family sessions, as scheduled and documents as required
  • Co-facilitate assigned group or family sessions
  • Complete initial Assessments/BioPsychoSocial/Intakes, as well as follow up assessment for patients
  • Prepare individual treatment plans for each assigned person(s) receiving care
  • Insure all documentation regarding patient care, treatment and incidents are completed timely
  and in a clear, concise manner
  • Act as a liaison between referral sources and patients
  • Provide crisis intervention to patients, as needed
  • Plan for aftercare for patients, provide case management duties for patients, insuring
  individualized quality care
  • Evaluate patient’s and determine if referrals to other programs or facilities is needed
  • Assist in the training of new clinical staff and interns
  
  

• EMPOWER Addiction Recovery

  Psychotherapist

  Empower is a private practice working with adults and adolescence that applies humanistic approaches using Social Interpersonal Growth Psychotherapy, to achieve positive growth and self-acceptance, by promoting self-esteem to reduce and overcome anxiety, self- defeating, and self-destructive addictive behaviors. The objective of specializing in Social Interpersonal Growth Psychotherapy is to assist individuals in assessing his or her past to improve their future by becoming emotionally and socially secure in all aspects of life.
  
  ● Help individuals cope with addictions by learning change strategies, develop preventative strategies, coping mechanisms, and the communication skills necessary to create positive change to eradicate addictive self-defeating behaviors. Coach and assist individuals in creating positive outcomes. Provide a positive coaching and mentoring experience, provide alternative methods to recovery, and provide alternative resources for people motivated to create positive change.
  ● Help individuals cope with any difficulties that one may be experiencing. Helping one change his/her mindset about overcoming challenges in life.
  ● Assisting individuals with stress/anger management; taking charge of one’s lifestyle, thoughts, emotions, and the way we successfully deal and manage problems substance free, stress free, and anger free.
  ● Successfully incorporate Maternal Behavioral Health services into treatment for this specific population of clients currently receiving Methadone or Subutex maintenance therapy.
  

• Lesley University

  Adjunct Professor

  Lesley University, Cambridge, MA - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  ● CPSYC 2403 - Theories of Personality
  
  Leslie University at Bunker Hill Community College
  ● CPSYC 2403 - Theories of Personality
  
  

• Institute for Health and Recovery

  Project Coordinator

  POWER is a collaborative project aimed at the prevention of opioid misuse in older women (55+) in Cambridge and Somerville. The Institute for Health and Recovery (IHR), in collaboration with community partners Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville Cambridge Elder Services, the Cambridge Council on Aging, and with the support of the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS), is working to address the risk factors of opioid misuse facing older women in our local communities.
  
  Our Strategy:
  
  POWER addresses these risk factors through primary and secondary prevention strategies targeting the general public, healthcare and social service staff who work with older women, and women age 55+ themselves. Based on a needs assessment and informed by evidence-based practices, IHR is engaged in the following prevention efforts:
  
  ■ Public Awareness Campaign: Distribution of educational materials and appearances on cable
  access TV
  
  ■ Staff Training at Partner Agencies: Including basic information on opioids, screening and brief
  intervention strategies, and addressing the intersection of trauma and pain
  
  ■ Psycho-Educational and Support Groups for Women 55+: Focused on information about opioids,
  tools for dealing with pain and trauma, support around older life issues and reducing isolation
  
  This three-year project will culminate in the dissemination of our findings to inform ongoing efforts for prevention of opioid misuse in older women nationwide.
  
  *Funded by the Office on Women’s Health, US Dept. of Health and Human Services. The project’s Advisory Board includes members from OWH, BSAS, the Executive Office on Elder Affairs, and our community partners.
  

• Bunkerhill Community College

  Adjunct Professor

  Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA - Division of Mathematics, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
  
  ● PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology
  ● PSY 223 - Psychology of Personality
  ● PSY 227 - Abnormal Psychology
  ● PSY 219 - Social Psychology
  ● PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, Fall 2014
  ○ Invited to create curriculum for new college level PSY 101 for AP high school students through BHCC and trained current faculty to design research projects and teach undergraduate Introduction to Psychology course.
  
  Advising:
  ● Provide free academic tutoring services for students in recovery, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, and veterans.