As a Doctor of Social Work and LICSW practitioner, I am engaged in advanced leadership and clinical research exploration for application to complex grief and trauma processing of multi-cultural community members. I use clinical training, expressive arts and cross-disciplinarian experience to affect positive change for stressed individuals, family systems and organizations. My goal is to reduce racial, emotional, and economic disparities as well as to promote stability, tolerance, empathy, and self-discovery. I spent eight years traveling globally and living in community with disaster relief, minority, spiritual, military or chronic illness survivors learning about their lives, struggles and joys.
SKILLS: Motivational Interviewing, Active Listening, Crisis De-escalation and Empowerment Through Creative Engagement, Solution Focused Therapy, Resource Management and Referral, Emotional Intelligence, Psycho-social Assessment, Authentic Leadership, Historical Trauma Perspective
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Anger management, Depression, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dissociation, Family problems, First responder issues, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Multicultural concerns, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Clinical approaches: Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
MN LICSW 26656