30+ years of work in Behavioral Health

New Jersey (1985 to 2004): 

• Resource Center Counselor at a not-for-profit organization providing services to individuals involved in the criminal justice system
• Non-clinical social worker: child & adolescent psychiatric hospital, outpatient services with older adults with substance abuse issues and mothers struggling with substance abuse
• Post graduate: Clinical Social Worker on research study aimed at understanding differences in child and adolescent adaptation to sexual abuse
• Part-time psychotherapy private practice

Minnesota (2005 to Present):

• 2006 to 2012 Clinical Social Worker in a group practice in Rochester, MN
• 2012 to present: Private Practice in Clinical Social Work in Rochester, MN
• 2018 to present: Behavioral Health Consultant to Rochester Police and Olmsted County Sheriff’s Departments Peer Support Team

EDUCATION

            May 1993 Rutgers University Master’s in Social Work

            May 1981 Rutgers University Bachelor’s in Journalism