Dynamic mental health professional with extensive experience at Santa Cruz County, specializing in crisis intervention and psychotherapy. Proven ability to assess complex mental health diagnoses and family systems and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Skilled in providing advanced clinical training and effective communication, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals with severe mental illness.
Provide highly skilled, specialized, and intensive mental health and/or substance use services, counseling, therapy, and case management services to individuals with mental illness or emotional disturbance, their families and support network; to serve as a liaison to other community agencies/ organizations in a training, educational, advisory, and/or consulting capacity, provide crisis intervention support and services including initiating 5150 applications when necessary; and to do other
work as required.
Provide a variety of professional mental health and/or substance use disorder services and related administrative functions in support of clients and their families, including case management/care coordination, short term crisis intervention, evaluation, counseling, and/or assisting in the implementation of appropriate treatment or service plans; and to do other work as required. This is the journey level in the professional Mental Health/Substance Use series. Incumbents are mental health license eligible and actively pursuing a full license from the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners (BBS) or have a higher level of experience in providing crisis intervention services
Created the Santa Cruz County 5150 training manual and implemented the certification trainings for individuals tasked with evaluating and implementing 5150 applications.
Created and implemented a complex mental health program within the homeless shelters supporting high risk individuals experiencing severe mental illness that resided within the Covid-era shelter system in Santa Cruz County.
Created and implemented the Student Internship Program at Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health.
Completed thousands of detailed mental health assessments for crisis intervention and/or access to direct services for Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW 28704