Jennifer Switzer, PhD, LPC

Experience

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  Horizon Behavioral Health

  Oct 2013 - Jun 2018

  Provided administrative and clinical leadership to a team of over 140 mental health professionals working in 35 school-based mental health programs throughout Central Virginia, serving over 600 pediatric consumers and their families each year. Responsibilities encompassed strategic and fiscal planning, development, and implementation of innovative and comprehensive therapeutic programming and interventions including neurobehavioral diagnostic assessments, individual, group, and family counseling, and individualized behavior modification using trauma-informed and attachment-informed care. Ongoing program evaluation was completed and disseminated to stakeholders, and compliance with DBHDS and DMAS regulations and guidelines were adhered to consistently. Served as a Preceptor to Physician Assistant students at a local university for their Supervised Clinical Practice during the Behavioral Health Rotation, and was a Certified Preadmission Screener for Emergency Behavioral Health Services in Virginia. Show less Functioned as the principal of a K-12 regional alternative education program that provided therapeutic day treatment, crisis stabilization, crisis intervention, and case management services to students who could no longer be maintained in the public school setting due to their significant mental health needs. Provided leadership, program management, and training to qualified mental health professionals working in the program, and partnered with local school divisions to ensure seamless transitions for students entering and leaving the program. Operational duties included completion of biopsychosocial assessments with students and their families; diagnosis of mental and emotional disorders; comprehensive treatment planning; providing individual and group counseling; risk assessment and safety planning; development and facilitation of staff workshops; observation and evaluation of general education faculty; interviewing and hiring mental health staff; court and truancy assessments for juvenile court; consultation with medical and psychological staff; and reports/evaluations as needed by four school divisions. Show less

  • School-Based Mental Health Portfolio Director

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2018

  • School-Based Mental Health Program Manager

    Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
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  InSight Telepsychiatry

  Jun 2018 - Sept 2019

  Licensed Professional Counselor

  Providing behavioral health services to consumers via secure, HIPAA-compliant, videoconferencing technology through Inpathy Virtual Group Practice with InSight Telepsychiatry.

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  Family Insight, P.C.

  Jul 2018 - now

  • Chief Clinical Officer

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Clinical Supervisor

    Jul 2018 - Mar 2019