Brenden Bell, LMSW

Experience

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  YWAM

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2017

  Student Coordinator

  Mentoring & Counseling: One-on-one mentoring with program students.Coaching: Coaching, feedback on skills development, work product.Interviewing: Interviewing and evaluating prospective students.Teaching: Develop lesson plans and teach courses, workshops.Managing: Project planning, team leadership.

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  TCF Bank

  Oct 2017 - Jul 2020

  Community Relations Coordinator

  Coordinating: Design and coordinate internal and external projects and events to involve the bank (as an organization) and bank employees (as individuals) in the community. Extensive work with local charities coordinating sponsorships, donations, volunteers, programming, resourcing, etc. for events.

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  Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center

  Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

  Counseling Intern

  - Counseling: Offer evidence-based therapy to LGBTQ+ adults struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma history, or relationship disputes, as well as offering support to those processing their sexual orientation or gender identity. - Assessment: Perform a comprehensive BPSS assessment on new intakes, assess with a supervisor if the intake is within our scope of care, and find local referrals if they are not. - Facilitator: Co-facilitate support groups centering around the coming out process and the religious and spiritual trauma associated with a queer identity.- Evaluation: Analyze organizational paperwork such as intake assessments for client accessibility, as well as create logic models for organizational programming. Show less

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  LifeStance Health

  Nov 2021 - Apr 2022

  Therapist

  - Counseling: Offer evidence-based, LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy to adults, seniors, and adolescents with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, trauma history, mood and personality disorders, relationship issues, as well as offering support to those suffering from minority stress. - Assessment: Perform comprehensive BPSS assessments on new intakes, properly diagnose the clients utilizing criteria from the DSM V, and collaboratively create a treatment plan with the clients that supports their goals. - Administrative: Consistent management of my own client schedule, as well as accurate and timely note taking within healthcare software (AMD). Show less

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  Affirmations Community Center

  Apr 2022 - now

  Care Coordination Manager

  Case Management: Offer evidence-based, LGBTQIA+ affirming case management including performing intakes with new clients to collaboratively create a treatment plan that supports their goals and needs. Administrative: Consistent management of my own client schedule, as well as accurate and timely note taking within healthcare software.Management: Manage several interns and a behavioral health admin in order to keep the care coordination program running as smoothly, equitably, and effectively as possible. Policy: Co-create and manualize the organization’s Care Coordination program including intake policies and financial policies and practices. Coordinate: Coordinate care of clients with community organizations, vet possible referral options for clients, and create resource guide of local organizations for clients. Programming: Create, manage and/ or develop several clinics and programs under the banner of care coordination including client specific programs such as a transportation service and a food delivery service, as well as programming open to all community members including a clinic on the process in Michigan to legally change one’s name and gender marker, a free legal clinic, and a monthly pop-up food pantry. Show less