Experience

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  Kids work chicago

  May 2013 - Dec 2014

  Teaching assistant

  •Develop social and emotional skills of 16 toddlers •Teach students self regulation strategies•Promote confidence and autonomy building

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  Horizons for youth

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2021

  Mentor

  • Guide a sibling pair (ages eight and nine) from a low resource community on weekend outings to stimulatetheir social, emotional, and cognitive development• Built a trusted relationship with children in order to be a role model they can look up to• Established a relationship with the mother so that I could be an additional support system to the family

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  Chicago lakeshore hospital

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2017

  •Admit patients to Intensive Outpatient programming and Partial Hospitalization programming by conducting clinical interviews that involve risk assessment and biopsychosocial history.•Facilitate psycho-educational adult groups pertaining to topics of anger management, distress tolerance, cognitive distortions, to strengthen patients coping skills • Facilitated dual-diagnosis adult groups pertaining to topics of anger management and distress tolerance to help strengthen patients coping skills.• Conducted treatment plans with adults in order to assess patient’s short term and long-term goals.• Implemented psycho-educational games for children to work on issues such as aggression, hyperactivity, anxiety, anger, and defiant behavior, so that certain behaviors would dissipate.

  • Outpatient Clinician

    Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  • Outpatient Clinician Intern

    Sept 2016 - May 2017
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  Community counseling centers of chicago

  Aug 2017 - Mar 2019

  Sass crisis worker

  • Conducts individual and family therapy for children in crisis, implementing multifaceted theoretical orientations, to help stabilize children ages 3-20 crisis symptoms.• Evaluates children in crisis episodes in the community by performing risk assessments based off of specific crisis symptoms of child. • Continuously communicates with school personal in the Chicago land, psychiatric hospital staff, and various community organizations, to ensure families have the appropriate resources so that crisis stabilization can occur for clients. Show less

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  Communities in schools (cis) of chicago

  Jul 2019 - Oct 2021

  Student supports manager
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  Epilepsy foundation of greater chicago

  Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

  Mental health counselor
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  University of chicago crime lab

  Aug 2023 - now

  Implementation manager