South Bay Marriage and Family Therapy

Marriage and Family Therapist

• Provide therapy for individuals (including adolescents), couples and families on a weekly basis.
• Provide specialized Pre-Marital counseling for couples.
• Conduct intake assessments and complete assessment and diagnosis forms.
• Maintain client files.

2007-2009     Masada Homes    Gardena, CA

School Based Therapist, LMFT

• Provide therapy for clients in individual and group therapy settings on a weekly basis.
• Conduct intake assessments and complete assessment and diagnosis forms.
• Maintain client files that include medi-cal billing notes, assessments, referrals, etc.

2005-2007     Stars Behavioral Health Group    Long Beach, CA

Mental Health Specialist, MFT Intern

• Provided individual, family and group therapy on a weekly basis.
• Conduct intake assessments and complete assessments/ diagnosis forms.
• Maintain client files that include medi-cal billing notes, assessments, referrals, etc
• Collaborate with psychiatrists and social workers.
• Work on the Dual Diagnosis Team seeing clients who generally have mental health disorders that are co-occurring with a substance abuse/use disorder.

2003-2005     Richstone Family Center    Hawthorne, CA

Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee

• Provided therapy for individuals, couples and families on a weekly basis.
• Led Anger Management classes one time per week.
• Maintained client files.

2001-2003     UCR Counseling Center    Riverside, CA

Biofeedback Technician

• Completed a 3 month training program in Biofeedback.
• Saw clients weekly and taught clients to recognize their bodies’ physiological response to stress and counteract those responses using biofeedback techniques.

2001-2003     Healthy Families Laboratory     Riverside, CA

Research Assistant

• Directed a research project that examined adolescent teen’s self esteem and the ‘Big Five Personality Factors’ in relation to body mass index.
• Interviewed families, coded tapes and entered the data into a computer database.
• Presented findings of various research projects completed at the Healthy Families Laboratory to Professionals working in psychology and related fields.

2002     Alternatives to Domestic Violence     Corona, CA

Counselor I

• Completed forty-hour training in domestic violence.
• Provided counseling and case management to victims of domestic violence.

2001     Ramapo Children’s Camp    Rhinebeck, NY

Counselor

• Worked with special needs children ages ranging from 4-16.
• Completed forty-hour training in Behavior Management.

Master of Science in Counseling with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy

• Completed course work including but not limited to; Introduction to Counseling, Law and Ethics, Statistics, Substance Abuse Counseling, Couples Counseling, Domestic Violence Counseling, Family Systems Counseling, Advanced Family Systems Counseling, Treatment Planning, Counseling Theories and Group Counseling.

1999-2003     University of California    Riverside, CA

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

• Completed course work including but not limited to; Psychology, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology Internship, Assessment in Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, and General Education Classes.

I have also extensive training in and time working with Domestic Violence, Couples Counseling, Family Therapy, and Biofeedback.