- What are your specialties or areas of clinical focus? Licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and master addictions counselor (MAC)
- What are the most common disorders you treat? Substance abuse disorder, adjustment disorders and stress related disorders.
- Do you have any special certifications or training beyond your original graduate coursework? Just what is listed.
- How do you approach therapy or treatment? Do you use specific modalities, techniques, or interventions? 12 step facilitation, anger management, TBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
- What ethical and legal issues do you think are the most challenging or common? HIPA, protecting patient confidentiality. Paper work has been left on copy machine which is not good.
Be mindful of talking about patients in the hallway when talking to other counselor’s or doctors.
- Do you have an opinion on where you think the field of psychology is heading? No opinion as
- What do you enjoy most about your work? She enjoys helping people discover people how to naturally cope with everyday stresses. Getting to the end of treatment and they have reached their goals. She also likes to get feedback in the end on what could have been differently or may have needed improvement on.
- What advice would you provide an aspiring psychologist or therapist? Keep all of your books, new versions come out. Continue to read even after schooling. Don’t do this for the money, do it because you want to help.
