The document provides a summary of an individual's professional experience in behavioral health. It details various roles held such as creator of a behavioral health website, psychotherapist, case manager, social worker, professor, and instructor. Positions were held in New Mexico, Georgia, and Arizona working with clients across diverse populations and settings including private practice, community mental health centers, hospitals, and prisons. Educational background includes degrees in social work, psychology, and art with over 300 hours of continuing education in behavioral health fields.

1. 825 East 4th street
Loveland, Co. 80537
575 313-5050 or 575 313 -9117
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Creator/Owner of Mental Health Website 2009-present http://www.nmbhr.com
New Mexico OF Behavioral Heath Resources.COM Located on world wide web) •
*Researched, designed and created a website about behavioral health resources that were
available for New Mexico consumers with the target consumer being rural dwellers in order that
they could find behavioral health help services available to them in their own communities or
elsewhere in the state requires only a few hours a month of maintenance.
Private Practicing Psychotherapist and case manager for Affirmations
Counseling Center
• Silver City, New Mexico 2001--July 14
•Independent contractor to community mental health centers, state and private agencies
•Did bio-psychosocial assessments with consumers assigned to me through state approved
agencies while working as independent practitioner
• Created multigenerational, individual, treatment plans and did case management using
utilizing many wraparound interventions
•Did therapeutic interventions with all populations but primarily worked with children, using
evidence based therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT, Solution Focused Therapy and
specific Play Therapies Like puppetry, art therapy and sand tray work.
• Did comprehensive in-home Gerontological Assessments, including comprehensive
assessments to determine cognition for local home health care agencies and for private
individuals desiring to keep elderly parents at home,
*Assigned treatment or case management plans
*Did periodic treatment plan reviews and discharge planning.
I designed and ran groups including parenting classes, anger management for domestic
violence and a variety of anger management groups with adolescents. Individuals taking these
classes had a 78% less instances of reoffending
*Consultant to New Mexico state government in the area of health care insurance needs as a
Governor Richardson appointee to a Senate health committee (Health Care For All New Mexico)
•Taught classes to social workers and counselors who work with children with specific mental
health issues so they to get their required yearly CEU’s.,
•Certified as a state adoption home study provider
•Trained as ombudsman for the elderly in nursing homes •
Social Work Case Manager for Alliance Hospital Silver City Outreach program
Silver City New Mexico 2005
*Did case management with clients with substance abuse issue Created individualized treatment
plans *Conducted Group Therapy sessions *Made home Visits *Did discharge planning
Child and Adolescent Therapist at the Southwest Counseling Center Silver City, NM
Conducted a variety of services for the agency, including adoption home studies, psychological testing,
assessments.*Performed therapeutic interventions for children using a variety of methods but with
play therapy being the most predominant.
Assistant Professor for School Of Social Work -Tenure track and was Field
Coordinator
•Taught most Social Work classes, as well as Sociology, and Respect For Diversity•
Coordinated all field instruction •Required to monitor students in the field •Trained field instructors
•Appointed to multiple faculty committees including curriculum and Instruction committee.
•Created the official field training manual for the Social Work department •Faculty representative for
the student Native American club • •

2. •Owner: Psychotherapist by contract to CYFD and the WIC program @ the DOH.
East Mountain Counseling Center , Moriarity, New Mexico
•Did psychosocial asessments of family dynamics •Developed treatment plans for severely
traumatized abused children who were in foster care •Did case management with families with the
intention of eventual reunification of children •Provided intensive individual play therapy and family
members that would insure children would be safe when returned to the home.
Created peer counseling programs for WIC clients who were successfully breastfeeding to
encourage breast feeding among larger WIC population for better medical outcomes for children.
Advocated for mothers and set up incentives programs for volunteer peer counselors *Created a
breast feeding TASK FORCE in traditional Hispanic communities for low income WIC clients
• Adult Protective Services Social worker •Graduate intern- Las Vegas
• Investigated abuse charges against frail elderly •
• Social Work Case Manager at Health Centers of Northern New Mexico Graduate
Intern-
Out Patient low income clinic in rural Hispanic Village in northern New Mexico
Responsible for medical case management and cooridination of services for low income
consumers including providing ongoing case management to consumers with chronic or
complex conditions* Developed and implemented these case management plans with consumer,
caregivers, physicians, staff, *Performed ongoing monitoring of care plans, *Did discharge planning
*Promoted integration of medical and behavioral health services with Las Vegas Mental Health
Hospital -the state approve psychiatric facility*Conducted community health meetings, did medical
education and diabetes prevention seminars including classes on healthy eating *Advocated for
clients, linking them to available community resources, creating peer programs *Required to know
medical coding, state and federal regulations surrounding Medicaid and Medicare eligibility, SSI
Regulations.*Conducted Face to Face home visits as needed
Social work Case Manager @ New Mexico Community Mental Health Center Las
Vegas NM
•Provided case management with patients with severe behavioral health issues •
Created emergency therapeutic interventions with consumers to prevent re-hospitalizations
*Developed and implemented treatment plans with consumers, caregivers, psychiatrists, and social
work staff •Did discharge planning •Completed discharge summaries • * Attended weekly
interdisciplinary meetings •Did initial intake for admissions of consumers •Attended Group Therapy
sessions •Assessed treatment plans/discharge planning
Instructor at Cochise Community College- Wilcox AZ
Taught in Douglas State Prison for Cochise Community College as instructor teaching art and
later doing art therapy with medium security prisoners
Social Work Case Manager at Tidelands Community Mental Health Center Garden
City Ga
* Did case management and medication maintenance for consumers with serious chronic
incurable severe mental illnesses * Created treatment plans -did discharge planning

3. EDUCATION :
Post Graduate 318 hours Continuing Education Course Credits ( CEU’S) in Behavioral Health, Play
Therapy, and Gerontology issues
Highlands University Las Vegas, New Mexico. MSW Specialization: Gerontological Social Work
University Of Georgia Athens, Georgia. Graduated BFA with a Specialization Art Therapy with
double major in Humanistic Psychology
West Georgia College Carrollton, Georgia Major: Humanistic Psychology Credits earned were
primarily graduate level psychology credits ( transcripts available )
Armstrong State College in Savannah, Georgia General Studies/Art
PRESENTER:
2008 National Association Of Social Workers Conference
1994 Statewide Field Instructors Conference for WNMU -1994
1992 National Association Of Social Work Conference 1992
APPOINTED:
By Governor Bill Richardson to legislative Health Coverage for New Mexicans Committee to study
universal health care plans with intentions of insuring All New Mexicans
Alliance Hospital Board 1997
2004 Childrens Behaviorial Health Collaborative ( voting member)
PUBLICATIONS:
Reminiscing With the Elderly: A Study With Elderly Navajo Women: Graduate Thesis 1992
In Progress: Article for book by request of the National Association of Bipolar -On a Navajo
prospective of helping bipolar clients from both a western medicine prospective as well as from the
viewpoint of traditional healers.
ORGANIZATIONS:
*Child And Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF) • New Mexico Family Network • Parents
Reaching Out • National Association For Mentally Ill (NAMI)• Local Behavioral Health Collaborative (L
• Children’s Behavioral Health Collaborative • Big Brothers and Sisters Organization • National
Association Of Indian Social Workers • NASW
•ADDITIONAL TRAINING
*New Mexico Ombudsman Program *Play Therapy through the NM Institute of Play Therapy *Western
Cognitive Therapies Institute *Wraparound Training in Grant County
SKILLS INCLUDE: Crisis management training * CPR CERTIFIED**Familiarity with CPT and ICD-9
coding systems* Word, Excel, Outlook *Strong research capabilities *Strong Organizational skills*
REFERENCES AND TRANSCRIPTS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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