1. Sarah Ann Gilyan
5698 S Liverpool Rd Hobart IN 46342  1(505)-469-5859 Sgilyan@gmail.com
Personal Profile
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a clinical position that allows me use the skills and hone my knowledge of psychology, teamwork and communication
while working to get state license as a Mental Health Professional
Work Experience
 Sebo’s Nursing Home Gary, IN 2004-2005
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Resident Care
1. Maintaining the daily lives of residents: meals, bathing, dressing also working alongside of the activities
director.
- Church, arts and crafts, bingo, music activities, including folk dancers, karaoke, residents care with
dementia, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and geriatric care.
- Medical assisting with catheters, medication, lifts, bed turning, dressing bed sores, and restroom
assisting mobilization, transporting patients to physical therapy, working with the physically
handicapped, HIV and Aids patients.
 School City of Hobart, Hobart, IN 2004-2006
Substitute Teacher K-12
1. SLD classroom
- LD students, downs syndrome, physically and mentally handicapped students
- Teachers Aid and regular class room as well
2. Detention
- ISS, and after school detention, behavioral kids
- After a year was asked to help with steady job offer
 Gibault Inc. Terre Haute, IN 2010-2011
MHT Mental Health technician
1. Detention reform, maintaining daily routine and lives of clients.
- Ages 6-18, mostly male and occasionally fill in at the female dorm.
- Behavioral and psychiatric residential programs and medicine regulation.

2. 2. Issues worked with:
- conductdisorders, mooddisorders, personality disorders, ADD andADHD,sexual deviance, sexual Identity
and gender issues, impulsecontrol issues, oppositional defiance, ptsd, polysubstanceabuse, substanceabuse,
probation and legal issues, aggression, anorexia /bulimia, and self-mutilation.
- Socialization, life skills program, recreational therapy, group work, routine schedule, volunteer work
independent living readiness, GED and education, helped to art groups at psychiatric facility, boundary work,
foster care readiness, and ward of state kids.
 Securitas Merrillville, IN July 2011 –November 2011
Security Officer
1. BP site, checking badges of employees and gate, guarding, patrols, completing daily activity reports, reporting
suspicious activities.
- Maintaining contact with local law enforcement.
- Report and handling potentially harmful situations safety and control.
 Team Builders Counseling Services Santa Fe, NM 87592, April 2012- January 2013
BMS, Behavioral Management Specialist
1. Working with skills development for client K-12 in community, and behavior management.
- Behavioral issues worked with here are as follows: antisocial behavior, boundary work, defiance, mood
disorders, oppositional defiance, gender issues,
- Working with a team environment with all members of school, family and other staff involved in clients
issues.
- Group work, and individual mentoring, maintaining consistency and routine, skill work, life skills and
classroom readiness, boundary work, and coping strategy development , communication skills; Independent
living skills, job readiness and Using art to develop coping skills.
- Working alongside with the bear program and youth recovery and relapse prevention.
- Volunteer and assisting with the NA group meetings and organizing speakers to speak to the youth.
 Life Healing Center Santa Fe, NM 87508, January 2013- March2014
CA, Counselors Aid
1. Working with adults; dealing with trauma and addiction issues.
- Workings alongside a treatment team providing daily life services to client and helping the clients with
scheduling and getting to groups.
- Listening to clients and providing support around trauma and addiction issues.
- Working with disassociation and working through episodes with clients.
- Taking client s to 12 step meetings and other spiritual groups in the community
- Drives such retrieve medications from pharmacy, taking clients to and from Doctor Appointments,
scheduling appointments and canceling.
 The Life Link Santa Fe, NM 87505, January 2015- Febuary-2016

3. Case manager / IOP intake and Assessments/ Substance Abuse
1. Working with at-risk adults with severe mental illness low-income and homelessness with addiction issues.
- Working with the IOP program and clinical staff, providing immediate individual intensive case
management, scheduling , assisting in groups and covering groups, Harm reduction approach
- Intake and assessments for substance abuse placement, ASAM, STOT, treatment plans and service
plans, goals, discharges agency and service; engagement
- Working with high needs clients human trafficking, homelessness, severe mental illnesses co-
occurring disorders
- Case management advocacy, helping client get transportation, medical needs met, housing, after care
planning, legal assistance, ssi ssdi, etc.
- Attending clinical staffing’s, meeting and maintaining correspondence.
 Santa Fe Recovery Center, Santa Fe, NM 87507, December 2015- Present
Group Therapist IOP Program
1. Working with Addiction and Co-Occurring disorders in the outpatient group setting group facilitator
- Using the Matrix Model, this is an evidence-based intensive outpatient treatment program.
- Some modalities used: 12-Step Philosophy, Community Reinforcement Approach, Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing
- Substance Abuse psychoeducational groups,, Family Education Groups
- Case Management
- Individual and Group Counseling
- Anger Management
- Grief/Trauma Counseling
Internship/Practicum Experiences
Southwestern Counseling Center -January 2014-April 2015
Practicum and Internship
2. Individual,family and couples counseling, facilitating groups
3. Intakes, building maintaining charts, session notes, treatment planning and supervision
Agave Health- Summer 2014
 Group Practicum
1. Worked with youth and teens ages 6-16 in group environment, building communication and life skills, using art therapy
and psycho-educational process.
2. Maintaining notes, and supervision, working with staff,crisis intervention
Santa Fe recovery Center -September 2014- April-2015
 Internship
1. Working with Intensive Outpatient Program with adults, Facilitating and co-facilitating IOP and ROP groups

4. 2. Working with the Inpatient Program assisting and facilitating art therapy group and facilitating a twelve step art therapy
group.
3. Creating and maintaining charts, writing session notes, following the matrix system, and preparing and planning group
processes, facilitating discussion, and participating weekly supervision.
4. Designed a 12 step art therapy based group for inpatients program
The Life Link- January 2015- April 2015
 Paid Internship
1. IOP program and case management, facilitating and co-facilitating group
2. Doing Intakes and assessments ASAM, STOT
3. Creating service plans and crisis management plan, relapse prevention plans, harm reduction modality,
seeking safety. Motivational interviewing
Education
Hobart Senior High – Hobart, IN 46342
 Core 40 Diploma -May 2002
Saint Mary- of –the –Woods College – Saint Mary of the Woods, IN, 47876
 Bachelors of Art –August 2011
 Art therapy Emphasis
 Psychology Minor: 9 credits away from dual degree BS
Southwestern College – Santa Fe, NM, 87592
 Masters of Art Therapy and Counseling
 ATR- BC
 LSAA
 Temporary License: LMHC: pending exam June
University Of New Mexico- Continued Education- Albuquerque, NM 87102
 Have LSAA – Licensed Substance Abuse Associate working on my LADAC
1. Addictions- Quarter credit- 30 class hours
2. Case Management- 16 class hours, certificate
3. Community Reinforcement Approach- 16 hours, certificate
4. Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and Practicum- 16 hours, certificate
5. Psychopharmacology- 4 hours
6. Consciousness - 50 hours
Volunteer Experience
 Hobart Art League, Hobart, IN 1998-2000

5. -Working with youth talent in community, helping the program and advocating new members, fund raising.
-Aiding in classes in painting, drawing, and sculpting and working arts and craft shows and facilitating art shows
 Big Brothers Big Sisters 2004-2005
-Worked with troubled youth with family issues, divorce, single parent homes, mentoring and gang activity,
recreational activities of at-risk children 8-15 years of age
 Events for Foster Children 2006-2008
-Porter and Lake County, IN, youth; Annual picnics spring summer and fall
-Recreational activities, craft making, swimming, beach events, fund raising, bonfires, haunted hay rides, and
other various group activities.
 VFW – 2008-2012 Terre Haute IN, and Currently IN Santa FE, NM
-Veteran’s events, Memorial Day picnic, fish dinners and steak dinners
 Sisters of Providence 2008-2009 and 2010-2011
-At the retirement home for the sisters helping with activities alongside the Activities Director.
-Ice cream socials, bingo, visiting the nuns, helping bringing them down to the church.
-Adopt a Nun Program- became and built relationship with retired sisters, acquiring the skills involved nurturing
an understanding relationship dynamics. This was part of Saint Mary of the Woods College service learning
programs required of several course learning projects.
 Crisis Pregnancy Center, Terre Haute, IN 2009
-None for Profit Organization (Service Learning Program Opportunity).
-Worked alongside a group of women with women and teen pregnancy.
-Family planning, set up appointments, free pregnancy testing , dealing with teen pregnancy crisis, low income
families assistance, talk with women who needed to talk, advising people of programs offered, parenting classes ,
credit earning opportunities, offering information on Birth control as well as abortion and adoption options.
-Helped jump start programs for fathers, teen fathers, single parent fathers and fathering classes.
-Called people on waiting lists to let individuals know available programs with times and dates of enrollment.
 Art Reach 2010-2011
-Service Learning Program Opportunity.
-Worked alongside Kathy Gotshall, the director of the Master’s Degree Program for Art Therapy at Saint Mary of the
Woods College, this was her nonprofit open community art studio.
- Responsible for cleaning, setting up, and assisting art therapy groups.
-Helped and observed parent-child relationship building groups, teenage after school art program, and working with
disabled adults.
 Bear Program Spring-Summer 2012
-Helping and facilitating NA meeting for the teens at Team Builders Counseling Services
Personal Experience
 16 years in substance abuse recovery and 12 step work, Sponsoring in NW Indiana, Chicago, IL; and Terre Haute, IN

6. -Volunteer service to NA and AA programs, Chaired meetings, spoke at recovery homes and half way
houses.
- spoke at youth groups and schools.
-experience as a sponsor sponsoring several teenage new comers in Lake County, IN and Cook County, IL,
most of which had legal issues, Taking sponcees to NA conventions, events, picnics and dances.
 3 years residential placement as an at-risk teen and ward of the state Lake County, IN.
Referenc
Patricia McIntyre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theology
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
(812)535-5247
Sharon Carey
Executive Director Crisis Pregnancy
Terre Haute, IN
(812)235-1153
Michael DeBernardi Psy-D
PhDDirector of Out Patient Programs and Supervisor
The life link
Santa Fe, NM
(505)438-0010 ex41
AntonioNunez
Consultant and Coach at Integral Consulting Group
Counseling Faculty at Southwestern College
(505)795-5921
Janice Graham
Director of Milieu at Life Healing Center
(415)-297-3453
Susan Benjamin
Private Practice/ Supervision LPAT/LPCC
Santa Fe, NM
(505)982-9261
Lorreta Bifulco
Santa Fe Recovery Center
Supervisor / art therapist
(505)-220-6373
Christiana Christian LPCC, LADAC, CCDVC, NCC
Intake Coordinator 2 and Clinical Therapist-
The Life Link
Santa Fe, NM
(505)395-2569
Judi Hoffman
Retired – Executive Assistant-
Santa Fe PublicSchools
(505)819-1367