Summary of Recent Clinical Experience:
Psychotherapist/Psychodiagnostic Examiner
Adolescent/Parent Group Interventionist
Assistant DCT/Clinical & Forensic Examiner
Psychodiagnostic Examiner/Group Psychotherapist
Budget Analyst/Intake Coordinator
Consultant/Individual & Group Psychotherapist
Psychodiagnostic Examiner
Outreach Consultant/Psychotherapist
Graduate Assessment Assitant Supervisor
Psychotherapist/Psychodiagnostic Examiner
Consultant/Support Group Co-Leader
Academic Advisor
Support Group Co-Leader
Consultant/Telephone Support Line VolunteerThe Women's Center (2009-present)
George Mason University (2009-present)
Human Emotions Research Lab (2009-present)
Center for Psychological Services (2008-present)
Center for Psychological Services (2007-present)
Veteran Affairs Medical Hospital (summer 2009)
Cognitive Assessment Program (2007-2009)
Marymount University Counseling Center (2007-2009)
George Mason University (2008-2009
Center for Psychological Services (2007-2009)
Hungry Hearts Ministry (2007-2008)
GMU Psychology Department (2006-2007)
The United Way (spring 2006)
Counseling & Crisis Center (2004-2005)
Clinical Experience/Consultation/Supervision:
-Provide individual psychotherapy to a wide variety of clients, with an emphasis on community members with minimal social and economic resources (depression, anxiety, trauma, and problems in interpersonal functioning).
August 2009-present
Psychotherapist and Psychodiagnostic Examiner (EXTERNSHIP)
The Women's Center, Vienna, Virginia
Supervisor: Carol Erdwin, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Total Direct Hours: 82 (completed by November 1, 2009)
-Provide assessment of intellectual, academic, personality, social and emotional functioning (administration, scoring, and
report writing).
-Participate in weekly seminars, case consultations, group/individual supervision sessions and monthly in-service training.
-Conduct initial intakes to establish whether Center services are appropriate for potential clients, answer crisis calls.
-Co-lead family based cognitive-behavioral intervention for adolescent psychopathology and high-risk behaviors (substance
September 2009-present
Adolescent/Parent Group Interventionist
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Supervisor: Christianne Esposito-Smythers, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist
use, suicide, and HIV prevention). Worked with sexually active adolescents receiving community mental health services.
-Grant funded by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Supervisor: June Tangney, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Total Direct Hours: 23 (completed by November 1, 2009)
-Administer in-person and telephone interviews/assessments to incarcerated (or recently released) individuals.
May 2009-present
Assistant Director of Clinical Training (DCT)/Clinical & Forensic Examiner
George Mason University Human Emotions Research Lab, Fairfax, Virginia
-Develop training guides for the administration of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-3) and Kauffman Brief
Intelligence Test (KBIT-2). Run training workshop for lab members. Supervise administration of assessment measures.
Supervisor: Lisa Meier, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Total Direct Hours: 48 (completed by November 1, 2009)
-Provide to adults in the community: two comprehensive psychological assessments (executive functioning difficulty/borderline intellectual functioning), one court ordered mental health evaluation, one achievement assessment consultation, and one Law Enforcement mental health evaluation to assess attention/executive functioning (administration, scoring, and report writing).
June 2008-present
Psychodiagnostic Examiner/Couples Group Psychotherapist
George Mason University Center for Psychological Services, Fairfax, Virginia
-Co-lead weekly emotio-focused couples group therapy for parents of children with autism. Conducted pre- and post-
intervention assessment.
Supervisor: Lisa Meier, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Total Direct Hours: 130 (completed by November 1, 2009)
-Responsible for payment and procedural duties regarding finances and ordering for the Center.
August 2007-present
Budget Analyst/Intake Coordinator
George Mason University Center for Psychological Services, Fairfax, Virginia
-Answer telephones and conduct initial intakes to establish whether Center services are appropriate for potential clients.
Screen clients for level of psychopathology and clarify reason for referral. Provide resources and referrals to clients whom are not appropriate for Center services.
-Assign caseloads to graduate students and document assignment of services.
Supervisor: Slavomir Zapata, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Total Direct Hours: 72
May 2009-August 2009
Consultant/Individual & Group Psychotherapist (EXTERNSHIP)
Veteran Affairs Medical Hospital, Washington, D.C.
-Provide individual psychotherapy to an outpatient adult veteran population, focusing on chronic pain management, bipolar disorder, major depression, and paranoid schizophrenia. Screen patients with the Comprehensive
Assessment PTSD Symptoms Scale (CAPS)
-Complete weekly individual mental health screen for chronic pain patients. Develop eight-week cognitive-behavioral
support group manual for chronic pain and co-lead weekly chronic pain management group.
-Co-lead weekly supportive/educational Health Improvement Program (HIP) alumni group focusing on developing
interpersonal and communication skills, anger management, and assertiveness training.
-Facilitate HIP daily walks.
-Co-lead weekly mental health support group for the MOVE! program, a national weight management program to help
veterans lose weight, keep it off and improve their health.
-Participate in monthly staff meetings and weekly individual supervision. Work as part of an interdisciplinary team with
psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, and social workers.
-Create presentation on group dynamics and conflict resolution for in-service training.
Supervisors: Dawna Thompson, Ph.D., & Lisa Meier, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologists Total Direct Hours: 163
January 2007-August 2009
Psychodiagnostic Examiner
George Mason University Cognitive Assessment Program, Fairfax, Virginia
-Provide assessment of intellectual functioning for students applying to Fairfax County’s Gifted and Talented Program
(administration, scoring, and report writing).
-Administer group cognitive ability assessments.
Supervisors: Meghan Voris, LCSW, Naghmeh Merck, LCSW, Silvio Menzano, Ph.D., & Total Direct Hours: 182
-Provide psychotherapy to a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students (anxiety, depression, disordered eating,
August 2008-May 2009
Outreach Consultant/Psychotherapist (EXTERNSHIP)
Marymount University Counseling Center, Arlington, Virginia
Meg Telfair, Ed. M.
sexual assault, sexual dysfunction, interpersonal relationship difficulties, substance abuse, and self-harm behaviors).
-Conduct initial intake assessments for prospective clients and assign to appropriate clinician or graduate student. Facilitate
weekly crisis walk-in hours for the Center.
-Work as Counseling Center liaison to Marymount University’s International Student Services.
-Present on mental health prevention and promotion topics at International Student Services and freshman seminars.
-Organize National Depression Screening Day to promote depression awareness through campus outreach.
-Participate in weekly professional development seminars, case consultations, group/individual supervision sessions, and full staff meetings. Work as part of an interdisciplinary team with a psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses, and social workers.
Supervisor: Christy Esposito-Smythers, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Total Supervision Hours: 48
-Supervise six clinical psychology first year doctoral students as a teaching assistant for the Graduate Student Clinical
August 2008-May 2009
Supervisor/Teaching Assistant
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Assessment Lab.
-Review clinical interviewing and suicidality/homicidality risk assessment through in-class role-plays and volunteer videos.
-Supervise administration, scoring, and initial report writing of Weschler intelligence measures: WAIS-IV, WISC-IV, and
WPPSI-III, the Stanford Binet (SB-5), Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive and Achievement measures, as well as the Beery- Buktenica Development Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI).
-Review personality and symptom assessments including the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III), Beck measures for anxiety and depression (BAI, BDI), and the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R).
-Supervise additional interview assessments including the Mini-Mental Status Exam and Structured Clinical Interview for
DSM-IV Disorders (SCID-II).
-Administer examinations to student to evaluate their intellectual assessment administration skills.
Supervisors: Jelena Spasojevic, Ph.D., Jerome Short, Ph.D., Jon Mohr, Ph.D, & James E. Maddux, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologists Total Direct Hours: 276
May 2007-May 2009
Student Psychotherapist and Psychodiagnostic Examiner
George Mason University Center for Psychological Services, Fairfax, Virginia
-Provide individual psychotherapy to a wide variety of child, adolescent, and adult clients, via outpatient mental health
facility practicum (major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder with agoraphobia, bipolar disorder,
oppositional defiant disorder, interpersonal relationship difficulties, and adjustment concerns).
-Provide weekly couple’s psychotherapy to one couple struggling with communication difficulties and interracial issues.
Utilize Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT) orientation proposed by Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson,
focusing on acceptance of each partner and their differences as well as insight into these differences.
-Provide child and adult assessment of intellectual, neurological, academic, personality, and social and emotional functioning (administration, scoring, and report writing). Primary population includes individuals with learning disorders, borderline intellectual functioning, inattention, and social/emotional difficulties.
-Participate in weekly group/individual supervision sessions.
Supervisors: Dawn Zimmerman, L.P.C. & Stephanie Townsend
-Develop thirteen-week spiritually oriented support group for women struggling with disordered eating, based on Martha
May 2007-October 2008
Consultant/Eating Disorder Support Group Co-Leader
Hungry Hearts Ministry, McLean, Virginia
Total Direct Hours: 12
Homme’s book entitled Seeing Yourself in God’s Image.
-Prescreen group members to evaluate appropriate fit for program. Screen mentors who have recovered from an eating
disorder for adequate fit to be paired with women currently in the disordered eating program.
-Develop Authorization for Services form to increase treatment team communication between participant’s physician,
dietician and individual therapist.
George Mason University Psychology Department, Fairfax, Virginia
August 2006-June 2007
Academic Advising
Supervisor: Professor Mike Hurley, Ph.D.
-Advise undergraduate psychology students regarding course choice, research and internship opportunities, as well as general preparation for employment or graduate school application.
The United Way, Toledo, Ohio
January 2006-May 2006
Domestic Violence Support Group Co-Leader
Supervisor: Lindsey Gant, M.A.
-Co-facilitate support/focus group for victims of domestic violence. Administer abuse history intakes to evaluate
appropriateness of member entry into support/focus group.
-Participate in meetings and functions of the Toledo Domestic Violence Task Force.
Community Counseling and Crisis Center, Oxford, Ohio
October 2004-May 2005
Consultant/Telephone Support Line Volunteer
Supervisor: Barry Koch, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist
-Employ crisis intervention model to counsel a wide range of callers via 24-hour on-call assistance.
-Work as overnight staff for the crisis line twice monthly.
-Train new counselors in problem-solving and empathic listening skills.
-Co-founded and elected chair of Student Outreach for the Community Counseling and Crisis Center Student Organization.
Tests Administered:
Adult Self-Report (1, 0)
Beck Anxiety Inventory (28, 2)
Beck Depression Inventory—Second Edition (28, 2)
Beck Youth Inventory—Second Edition (2, 0)
Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) (1,0)
Beck Suicide Scale (BSS) (1, 0)
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration—Fifth Edition (1,1)
Behavior Assessment Scale for Children—Second Edition (1,0)
Brown ADD Scales Adolescent (1, 0)
Brown ADD Scales Adult (9, 0)
Brown ADD Scales Parent/Teacher Rating Form (3, 0)
California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edition (1, 0)
Child Behavior Check List (1,0)
Child Mania Rating Scale (2, 0)
Connors’ Continuous Performance Task (5, 0)
Connors’ Rating Scale, Revised (Parent Version; 1, 0)
Delis-Kaplan Executive Function Scale (4, 0)
Folstein Mini Mental Status Exam (2, 2)
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition (0, 2, 1)
Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory, (1, 0)
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Third Edition (1, 0)
Minnesota Multiphasic Persaonlity Inventory, Adolescent (1, 0)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition (1, 2)
Nelson-Denny Reading Test (3, 0)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (1, 0)
Personality Assessment Inventory (5, 2, 2)
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (2, 0)
Rorschach (report writing)
Rotter Incomplete Sentences Test (2, 2)
Self-Harm Inventory (1, 0)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (3, 3)
State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, Second Edition (1, 0)
Test of Every Day Attention (2, 0)
Thematic Apperception Test (2, 0)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Third Edition (3,0)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Third Edition (4, 3)
Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition (2, 0)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (41, 2)
Wide Range Achievement Test, Third Edition (0, 2, 1)
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (0, 0, 2)
Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement, Third Edition (7, 1)
Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition (8, 1)
Woodcock Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities, Diagnostic Supplement (2, 0)
Group Tests Administered:
Cognitive Abilities Test (4 group administrations for second through sixth grade)
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (4 group administrations for second through sixth grade)
*(Client Administrations, Volunteer Administrations, Research Administrations)
last updated 11.1.2009
