• Effectively deescalate and prevent crises via providing crisis counseling to persons with developmental disabilities and co-occurring mental illness.
  
• Achieved consistently accurate assessment of risk and protective factors for persons in crisis.
• Maintaining and growing positive relationships with Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division colleagues and external collaborators.
• Increased staff knowledge and capabilities by providing training and supervision. 

• Providing individual and group therapy effectively increasing client's capacity to live more independently and better understand and cope with mental illness.
• Supported a number of patients in achieving stability and improved mental health.
• Collaborating with Case Western Medical School to launch Assertive Community Treatment model leading to improved care and outcomes for client's served.
• Effective assessment and treatment of co-occurring AODA disorders.

• Providing Cognitive Behavioral, Solutions Based and Mindfulness Based therapies to support clients in achieving growth and improved mental health.
• Accurate diagnosing of mental health conditions and level of functioning for clients and external agencies.
• Consistent success in fostering culturally competent therapeutic alliances.
• Increasing graduate students knowledge base and clinical skills by providing training and co-therapy experiences.

• Supervising, training and supporting over fifty staff providing care to children in residential treatment program.
• Increased accuracy of tracking individual clinical outcomes and program efficacy leading to improved inter-disciplinary communication and care.
• Improved the scale and scope of therapeutic programming and quality of care leading to improvements in children's mental health.

• Support clients navigating internal and external social, physical and mental health services.
• Providing group therapy to increase client's capacity to live more independently and better understand and cope with mental illness.
• Supported a number of patients in achieving stability and improved mental health.
• Collaborated law enforcement and legal system to ensure client commitments and stipulations followed ensuring public and client safety.

• Successfully developed and implemented plans of care for new and existing residents coping with complex behavioral health challenges.

• Coaching and development of staff resulting in increased employee knowledge base, morale and quality of care provided.
• Consistent effective and empathetic communication in building relationships and achieving goals with a wide range of professionals, family members, managed care organization representatives and clients.

• Supported persons coping with drug and alcohol addiction in achieving and maintaining freedom from addiction.
• Identified and implemented cost saving measures resulting in an annual savings of over two hundred thousand dollars, while providing equal or better services.
• Used positive oriented cognitive behavioral approach in supporting a number of clients in making and sustaining healthier lifestyle choices.
• Effectively utilized evidence based screening and assessments tools to identify and initiate treatment for depression, dementia and substance abuse.
• Identification and successful resolution of various forms of abuse resulting in improved quality of life for clients.

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• Performed comprehensive psychological testing of adults and children coping with brain injuries and psychiatric illnesses to increase medical, behavioral, and educational team's insight and effectiveness.
• Helped create behavioral and therapeutic strategies with treatment teams and families to increase quality of life and behavioral health both at hospital and generalized into discharge environment.
• Provided individual and group therapies to measurably increase pro-social and healthy behaviors.
• Co-authored and presented case study at 2008 convention of The Association for Behavioral Analysis International.
• Performed IQ testing and created behavioral interventions contributing to presentations.
• Both aforementioned efforts contributed to successful symposium presented by Lakeview Hospital.

• Provided Errorless therapy for children with autism which increased social, language, and self help skills.
• Helped create behavioral and therapy strategies with therapy teams and parents.
• Received Therapist of the Month award. 

• Worked with a wide range of developmentally disabled participants in a fun and enriching person centered day program, with the setting and meeting of individual goals.
• Successfully supported equestrian therapy.
• Supported persons with disabilities in volunteering at the Wisconsin Humane Society.
• Collaborated effectively with co-workers and outside providers such as guardians, social workers, psychologists, and physicians on to improve participants' lives. 

• Trained officers and soldiers in chemical and biological defense and land navigation in both classroom and field environments.
• Performed maintenance and inventory control on a company size stock of radio-logical and chemical equipment.
• Received US Army Fitness Medal.

• Graduated in top ten percent of Chemical Operations School focusing on protecting military and civilian populations from nuclear, chemical and biological dangers.
• Completed joint U.S. and German Chemical Reconnaissance School focusing on use of mass spectrometers radiological and biological testing equipment in preparation for Operation Desert Storm.
• Received Army Commendation medal for service while on active duty.

• Collected and analyzed data on individual clients using records, tests, interviews and professional sources.
• Consulted with clients when developing long term treatment plan goals and objectives.
• Counseled clients to help them understand and overcome personal, social and behavioral problems.

• Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to treatment.
• Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
• Developed and implemented treatment plans and modified when needed.
• Directed family-centered, strengths-based, culturally competent and individualized intakes and assessments.
• Connected clients with community service and resource agencies.