Areas of Expertise
Anti-Oppression Education and Activism
Culturally-sensitive Mental Health Care
Harm Reduction
Intervention Programs
Social Work
Transformative Justice
This course covers the description, classification, evaluation, and diagnosis of the adult psychiatric disorders described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
This course is an overview of crisis intervention theories and interventions. The various stages of crisis will be explored, ranging from an acute and sudden situation...
Narrative Therapy is a collaborative approach, which centers people as the experts in their own lives. Not grounded in the medical model, the Narrative Therapy worldview...
Courses
- 30100 Direct Practice
- 69950 Crisis Intervention Methods
- 41812 Narrative Therapy
Fields of interest
- Anti-oppressive social work practice
- Complex/violent trauma intervention strategies
- Acute crisis intervention
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Harm Reduction
- Narrative Practice
- Trauma responsive care approaches in health care
- Hospital based violence intervention program management
Job experience
- Crown Family School Field Instructor
- Clinical Manager: Violence Recovery Program at UChicago Medicine
- Therapist in Private Practice
- Resource Counselor: Chicago Center for HIV Elimination at The University of Chicago
- Milieu Therapist: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- Trauma Intervention Specialist: Stroger Hospital of Cook County
- Clinic Coordinator: Ruth M. Rothstein Core Center
- Assistant Director at Hesed House