Education and professional experience

My preparation in counseling includes both a Masters and Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Northwest University. I practice from a psychodynamic understanding of human development and behavior. This approach emphasizes the relationship between the patient and the therapist and the way one's history has contributed to current life's struggles.

Relevant Employment History

• 2003 - Present. Private Practice Psychotherapist.
  
• 2008- present. Employed at Evergreen Hospital as a  Social Worker. Experienced with crisis work, death and bereavement,   chemical dependency assessments, elderly assistance and discharge planning. 
• 3/05- 07/09  Fairfax Behavioral and Medical Psychiatry- Kirkland WA. Intake clinician duties include psychiatric assessments, phone crisis services, and case-collaboration.
• 1/2009 - 6/2009. Mental health therapist Domestic Abuse Women's Network.  Experienced with trauma informed care and short-term mental health services for women who are survivors of domestic violence.

Education Background

• Valley Counseling Training Center- Renton WA. Supervised psychotherapy internship/externship program. 2003-2007

• Northwest University- Kirkland WA. Here I received both a Masters and a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. 2000-2004.

Seminars and Trainings

• 04/24/2009. "Leadership at the Edge" Hillel Swiller, MD, CGP, FAGPA. Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network.

• 03/28/2009. "50 Hour of domestic violence advocacy training." Alicia Glenwell, Director of Community Programs. Domestic Abuse Womens Network.

• 2/7/2009. “LATE STAGES OF DEMENTIA A Creative Approach to Clinical Practice with Aphasic Individuals” JUTTA ATAIE, MSW & JOHN CASTER, MSW. Society of Social Leadership in Healthcare.

• 1/30/2009 “Group Therapy Through the Lens of Trauma: the Brain, the Body and the Therapeutic Window” Diane Nakamura, Ph.D. and
  Rik Muroya, M.Ed. Puget Sound Group Psychotherapy Network.

• Developmental System Approach on treating psychiatric disorders in adolescents, Dr. Charles Wang, M.D. Fairfax Behavioral and Medical Psychiatry.

• 09/20/2006. Alcohol and Opiate Detoxification Process, Dr. Adam Rosen, M.D. Fairfax Behavioral and Medical Psychiatry.

• 07/12/2004. Counseling for Gay Couples William Stanley, MSW Valley Counseling Training Center

• 05/17/2004. International Marital and Family Counseling by William & Carol L. Stanley, PhD Valley Counseling Training Center

• 4/19/2004. ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment Training by Carol L. Stanley, PhD Valley Counseling Training Center; Harlan R. Gephart, M.D. Clinical Professor of Pediatrics University of Washington.

• 03/15/2004. Privacy, Disclosures, Confidentiality and Privilege of HIPAA by Carol L. Stanley, PhD Valley Counseling Training Center

• 12/07/2003. Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment, by Carol L. Stanley, PhD Valley Counseling Training Center

• 11/17/2003. Using Community Resources by William B. Stanley, MSW Valley Counseling Training Center

• 10/13/2003. Psychoanalytic Object Relations Therapy by Lisa H. Vila, Psy.D - Valley Counseling Training Center