Child Therapist - Seven Counties Services
February 1999 - Present
- Conduct clinical assessments of severely emotionally and behaviorally impaired children
- Provide individual, group, and family therapy for severely emotionally and behaviorally impaired children and their families
- Provide crisis intervention services
- Participate in multi-disciplinary treatment team meetings
- Provide case management services
- Facilitate communication among community resources
- Provide psycho-educational trainings

Chemical Dependency Counselor - Seven Counties Services
May 1996 - January 1999
- Monitor and maintain therapeutic milieu in residential substance abuse treatment facility for adolescents
- Conduct group meetings with clients
- Provide crisis intervention assistance

Child Therapeutic Aide - Seven Counties Services
April 1995 - May 1996
- Mentor severely emotionally and behaviorally impaired children
- Assist client and clients' family in efforts to meet treatment goals
- Consult with clients' primary therapist regarding case plan of client

Animal Care Society (no-kill animal shelter)
- Media Spokesperson, board member, chair of development committee

Pet Groups United (alliance of animal welfare groups in the Kentuckiana area)
- Media spokesperson, co-chair of public relations committee

Shamrock Foundation (no-kill animal foster program and spay/neuter assistance program)
- Media/Public relations volunteer, cat and dog foster mom

Wonderful Animals Giving Support - WAGS (animal-assisted therapy organization)
- Volunteer providing animal-assisted therapy

Alley Cat Advocates (organization which provides trap-neuter-return program)
- Volunteer for "Big Fix" spay/neuter clinic

Janet's Helpers (provides basic necessities for underprivileged children and families)
- Board member, public relations volunteer

Golden Retriever Rescue and Adoption of Needy Dogs - GRRAND
(no-kill foster program for golden retrievers)
- Actor in promotional video, golden retriever foster mom