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QUALIFICATIONS
* Over thirty years of professional experience working in the field of Social Work.
* Able to work independently and collaboratively.
* Expertise in delivering clinical and supervisory services.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Refined and improved social work skills through providing clinical supervision for mental health interns.
* Responsible for developing and implementing two clinical private practices.
* Possess requirements for providing clinical supervision services.
Experience as a clinical social worker offering treatment services to:
* Individuals, groups, families, couples, adolescents, adults and seniors.
* Provided clinical social work services to CalWorks/T.A.N.F recipients.
* Attended I.E.P's and responsible for conducting and creating a bio-psychosocial report in order to better provide
assessment and placement services.
Expertise working with various systems, including:
* Hospitals, schools, not-for-profit agencies, for-profit organizations and the public sector.
* Providing treatment services to individuals balancing work/life issues and co-occurring disorders through E.A.P. referrals.
* Providing crisis, brief and long term counseling services as a private practice clinician.
* Delivering bio-psychosocial assessment and discharge planning services.
* Working with individuals diagnosed with co-occurring disorders and chronic mental illness.
* Providing case management services, resource identification services with linkage assistance and writing treatment plans.
Articles
* Authored the article Coping with Work Related Stress which was published in the North Beach Journal, June 1999.
* Authored the course book Mastering Clinical Supervision for an on-line distance learning program, Mckissock, L.P., April 15. 2010. services for special needs children through the Los Angeles County A.B. 3632 program.
* Provided assessment, crisis and brief clinical services with linkage and referral to community resources through the Los Angeles County Crisis Management Center.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| Clinical Social Worker | Dominion Center for Behavioral Health Services South Riding, VA |
05/2014-07/2015 |
| Clinical Supervisor | SNIA,Care, LLC McLean, VA |
05/2012-5/2014 |
| Clinical Supervisor | Childhelp, Child Center of Virginia Fairfax, VA |
4/2011 to 5/2012 |
| Clinical Social Worker | Phoenix Family Counseling Gainsville, VA |
11/2009 to 4/2011 |
| Clinical Social Worker | Private Practice, Laura Bloom M.S.W., L.C.S.W Manassas, VA |
02/2003 to 06/2005 |
| Clinical Social Worker | Private Practice, Laura Bloom, M.S.W., L.C.S.W San Francisco, CA |
07/1996 to 08/2001 |
| Clinical Case Manager | Westside Community Mental Health Center San Francisco, CA |
08/1995 to 08/2001 |
| Clinical Social Worker | Family Service Agency of Burbank Burbank, CA |
05/1987 to 05/1995 |
| Psychiatric Social Worker | L.A. County Dept. of Mental Health Los Angeles, CA |
10/1986 to 05/1995 |
| Counselor | Touch of Care, Incorporated Los Angeles, CA |
10/1985 to 09/1986 |
| Social Work Intern | Niles Family Service Niles, IL |
09/1984 to 6/1985 |
| Social Work Intern | Lutheran General Hospital Park Ridge, IL |
09/1983 to 6/1984 |
LICENSURE
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, VA., 2002 (Active) #0904005151
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, D.C., 2002 (In-active) #LC 3000787
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, CA, 1989 (In-active) #LCS 13856
EDUCATION
Jane Addam's College of Social Work University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Master of Social Work 1985
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Bachelor of Science 1983