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PERSONAL ASSESSMENT REPORTStudent: Javier LeyDoctor of Professional Counseling ProgramDepartment of Psychology & CounselingMississippi CollegePURPOSE OF ASSESSMENTThe purpose of the assessment was to complete a requirement for COU 8601, Professional Growth and Development (Self of the Therapist), and to secure data needed to develop a meaningful Personal Growth Plan. A related purpose was to complete a self-screening of personal adjustment and fitness for professional counseling practice. The Personal Assessment Report may form a foundation for examining countertransference issues in supervision and personal issues in confidential therapy for the professional counselor. A final purpose of the assessment was to clarify career and lifestyle needs, a requirement of COU 8501, Career & Lifestyle Planning, and refine the preliminary statement of professional specialization, a requirement of COU 8602, Professional Identity and Ethical Practice.Demographic informationThe student is a 40 year old Hispanic, married male, self-referred for personal assessment and personal growth planning. The testing was completed from October 17th until November 10th of 2013.ASSESSMENT PROCEDURESTests Administered:Brief Survey of Personality (BSP short form: Myers Briggs Type Indicator/Keirsey Temperament Sorter)Life Stressors and Social Resources-Adult Form (LISRES)Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO)Self Directed Search (SDS)Sentence Completion Series (SCS)Career Exploration Activity Lifeline or life history is attached as appendix (Appendix A)Review of Records Resume is attached as appendix along with other relevant documents (Appendix B)BACKGROUND INFORMATIONCareer and Work HistoryRELEVANT EXPERIENCECentro de Especialidades en Adicciones (CEA)Executive / Clinical Director, Mar 2010 – presentDeveloped and executed the initial project for this not for profit organization aimed at providing treatment and prevention programs for those with alcohol and/or substance abuse problems.Supervises the administrative, accounting, financial, marketing and clinical teams.Supervises fund raising and funding activities.Supervises interdisciplinary clinical team in relation to treatment activities and case management.Develops and supervises plans for prevention activities in schools, universities, companies, and communities.Develops and supervises educational components at university level for addiction professionals in preparation for international certification as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor.Led clinical team that earned Certificate of Excellence by the Matrix Institute on Addictions in Los Angeles, California.Head representative of organization as a member board before the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC).OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCESelected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) as Co-Chair for the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Credential Committee – October 2013Selected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) as a Subject Matter Expert to participate in the Job Task Analysis for Alcohol and Drug Counselors – August 2013Selected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) to participate in a Cut Score Study to determine the new passing point for the international examination required for Alcohol and Drug Counselor Certification – June 2013Member of the private practice counseling team, “RENACER” – Since January 2013ACCOMPLISHMENTSEarned recognition as “Distinguished Graduate”, with a 4.0 overall GPA, in Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Saint Mary’s University, 2012Earned recognition as “High Honors”, Bachelor’s Degree, University of Florida, Spring 1994Earned recognition of finishing in Top 3% in Macroeconomics in class of more than a thousand students, University of Florida, Fall 1993Family HistoryFamily of origin is from Nicaragua and it includes father, mother, and one younger sister. I was born in Granada, Nicaragua on August, 6 of 1973. My sister was born one year and nine months later in Managua, Nicaragua. I have Chinese ancestry from my father’s side of the family. My grandfather was born in Canton, China and arrived in Nicaragua when he was 15 years old. My grandmother was born in Nicaragua, but her father also came from China to Nicaragua. Extended family has been very important for me. My father has eight brothers and six sisters. My mother has one brother and three sisters. This provided me with many cousins.My family history has been influenced greatly by politics, war, and immigration. At the beginning of the 80’s most of my extended family migrated to the United Sates. I lived in Miami, Florida with uncles from my father’s side of the family and with my grandparents for a few years from 1985 until 1989 while my father, mother, and sister lived in Nicaragua. My mother and sister moved to Miami in 1989.In 1990, we moved back to Nicaragua after the fall of the socialist regime and my immediate family was reunited again after almost five years of being apart. We lived together until 1993, time when I left back to the United States to attend the University of Florida. I returned back to Nicaragua at the end of 1998 until today. Drug addiction marked my life from my teens until age 33, including difficulties in relation to my family and our history together: lack of trust, anger, resentments, disappointment, sadness, desperation, worry, depression, and anxiety.I was married in 2006, year also when my first daughter Paulina was born (June 2006) and when I started my recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. It was definitely one very important year in my life. My second daughter Valentina was born in September 2011. All four of us are together and living a loving, grateful life. My parents live very close by and so do my parents in law. We are very close to our parents and our children spend a lot of time with their grandparents. My sister moved to Belgium about eight years ago and she and her two boys get to visit once every two years for a couple of months. I feel blessed for this as now I have a second chance at a family life with my parents, sister, extended family and my now immediate family. I could not ask for more.Medical HistoryDiagnosed with heart arrhythmia when I was 11 years old. It disappear at around age 17Hernia operation at 20 years oldGallbladder operation at 22 years oldLost use of 86% of nerves in left hand and arm. This was confirmed by neurological tests in late 2006. I regained almost all of nerve use and feel during 2007 after six month vitamin therapy. High cholesterol at age 37 (around 300 total cholesterol). Now taking Crestor 20mg a day along with change in diet and exercise regime. Cholesterol is now under control (around 130 total cholesterol). Mental Health HistoryUsed alcohol since age 15.Used marihuana since age 17.Used cocaine since age 18.Used LSD since age 21.Used MDMA, Ketamine and GHB since age 23.Used benzodiazepines since age 27.Met DSM-IV TR criteria for dependence for alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens (MDMA), and sedatives (benzodiazepines) at different times between 1990 and 2006.Received alcohol and drug treatment in 2006 (age 33). In abstinence and recovery since.Also stopped smoking tobacco cigarettes in 2008.CURRENT MENTAL STATUSCurrent stressors are:Financial: meeting obligations. We, as a family, have considerable weight of financial obligations, such as loans to pay for expenses, education (Master’s), and business startup. We need to stay focused and disciplined. Time allocation for all activities: finding the balance for work, private practice, personal recovery, family, doctorate, others. This is an area that causes stress in my life at this moment. Focus and discipline are also protective factors.Description of mental functioning:Current mental functioning is optimal in terms of learning capacity, memory, creativity, reasoning, and emotion. My mental functioning is currently at its best since 1995. It was negatively affected by my drug addiction in all areas described above. I am a firm believer that it will improve the longer I remain in recovery (abstinence plus personal growth), which is the basis of all I do. If someone were conducting a clinical interview with you, what would be the behavioral observations?Behavioral observations include calmness, serenity, clarity, motivation, and happiness.RESULTS OF ASSESSMENTSummary of Main Assessment Results:MBTI: Main type: INFJ (Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging)Characteristics: Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how to best serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision. Possible Careers: Substance Abuse Counselor, Director of Social Service Agency.LISRES:Negative Life Events (NLE): T Score of 45Positive Life Events (PLE): T Score of 77PAI:Results of the PAI are not included in the present assessment. I have not been able to receive scoring on time after sending answers through the mail from Nicaragua.NEO:Extraversion: Score of 40 = Average (on the lower end). Your score on Extraversion is average, indicating you are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone.Agreeableness: Score of 90 = High. Your high level of Agreeableness indicates a strong interest in others' needs and well-being. You are pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative.Conscientiousness: Score of 99 = High. Your score on Conscientiousness is high. This means you set clear goals and pursue them with determination. People regard you as reliable and hard-working.Neuroticism: Score of 13 = Low. Your score on Neuroticism is low, indicating that you are exceptionally calm, composed and unflappable. You do not react with intense emotions, even to situations that most people would describe as stressful. Openness to Experience: Score of 88 = High. Your score on Openness to Experience is high, indicating you enjoy novelty, variety, and change. You are curious, imaginative, and creative.SDS:REASIC Code: SIA (Social, Investigative, Artistic)Rewards (in order): Good feeling that comes from helping others, freedom and opportunity to satisfy an inner curiosity, and opportunities for creating new things.SIA Occupations: Clinical Psychologist, Counseling Psychologist.SAI Occupations (another combination): Marriage and Family Therapist.ISA Occupations (another combination): Neuropsychologist.SCS:SCS Work:Present circumstances: growth, evolution, flexibility, congruent, positive goals and dreams, self-discipline.Stressors: planning and action, driven by challenges, bored with routine and administrative work, dislikes personnel petty discussions and conflicts.Motivation: creativity, project startups, internal self-reward, challenging projects, driven by gratitude.Personal Qualities: gratitude, satisfaction, driven, planning, teacher.Work relations: enjoys and prefers independent work, excellent relation with boss.Work and Lifestyle: mostly enjoys family time, does not socialize with people at work, blessed by work and family, challenged by balance and time allocation.Career Goals: enjoys and is very happy with present job situation and career, optimistic about future possibilities, does not wish to change careers.SCS Adult:Relationships: overcome obstacles, driven, transparent, closest and most intimate relationship is with wife, wife is best friend, enjoys time alone, most friends are recovery friends.Self-concept: smart, driven, motivated, grateful, enjoys sex life, physically good, general attitude of optimism and thankfulness.Self-esteem: likes own drive and motivation, spirituality, kind heart, growing acceptance as an introvert, satisfied with appearance.Personal needs: values most is family and God, in 12 Step recovery, spiritual program with spiritual principles, helping others makes me happy, family makes me happy, God makes me happy.Lifestyle: life of overcoming difficulties, wrong choices in the past, recovery in the present, a spiritual life, needs more play.Coping and stressors: stress from financial issues and balance of different aspects of life, prayer and meditation, clarity in decisions, God’s will.Integrate results of assessment with background information and address purpose of assessment:The results of assessments expressed my personality and life clearly and precisely for the most part, including my career possibilities in relation to specific occupations. In this sense, I felt very satisfied with the results and their validity as they apply to me. There have been radical changes in my life before using drugs, during drug use, after drug use and beginning of recovery process and on. Assessment results convey my current state of personality and life, one in which I feel congruent in all aspects of my life for the first time (in past four years) since being a child (age 10). It is difficult for me to speak about my entire life without speaking about addiction and recovery. In relation to the MBTI type of INFJ with its common characteristics and possible occupation as Substance Abuse Counselor and Director of Social Service Agency this pinpoints my current job, one that I perceive as my present dream job. Also, the RIASEC code of SIA suggests occupations such as Counseling Psychology which also aims at my current occupation. The main reason why I have this job is because of my personal experience with addiction and recovery. I feel so grateful for this.My family history, medical history, and mental health history have been heavily influenced by this life changing fact. Now in recovery, my true personality has been resurfacing and awakening as I am engaged in a process of self-knowledge of the person that I am. For instance, The NEO results express my personality in a very precise way, at least as I perceive it. I believe personality tests as such during active drug use would have yielded very confusing results characterized by not congruent data. I am finally becoming who I am. The three main objectives in the purpose of the assessment are to establish data to develop a Personal Growth Plan, to complete a self-screening of personal adjustment and fitness for professional counseling practice, and to clarify career and lifestyle needs. I believe these three objectives were accomplished in the completion of this Personal Assessment Report. For instance, areas of the assessment report such as stressors and personality traits can guide me towards a specific plan of action to both mitigate risk and enhance growth. In regards to the self-screening of personal adjustment and fitness for counseling, areas such as countertransference issues and supervision needs can point towards areas that act as roadblock for optimal counseling environment and towards professional growth. Finally, career and lifestyle factors such as my relevant needs and preferences can clarify and validate current and future career choices and a provide a better understanding of past ones.Clinical ImpressionsAddress any relevant clinical syndromes:No relevant clinical syndromes; no multi-axial diagnosis Relevant personality traits:Have to continue to pursue sociability skills. Can be very introverted at times and bored (or scared) of social encounters. It has been difficult to socialize after recovery especially with people that are not in recovery, but it is slowly improving as I grow beyond the guilt and shame that accompanied me through my addiction. My motivation is mostly internal and I value time by myself. I am learning to be comfortable and accepting of myself as an introvert, while not neglecting the essential social aspects of life. For a long time I pretended to be an extrovert in a pursuit of becoming someone that I was not. I believe that early in my recovery I could have met criteria for social anxiety. One relevant observation of growth in this area is that public speaking used to terrify me as I used to experience strong physiological responses and became adept at making excuses to not be exposed to an experience as such. Now, I still get nervous to a manageable degree, but it is one of the tasks I perform best.Interpersonal FunctioningThe strengths associated with participating in the CADRE and completing the DPC program includes:PerseveranceDriveMotivationGratitudeMeaning and PurposeThe learning needs include:Enough time to complete assignments in a satisfactory way while balancing other aspects of life.Marital and Family IssuesIdentify resources and challenges related to recent marital and family functioning, as well as relevant family of origin issues:Marital and family functioning: Relationship with wife is as good as ever; more communication, more understanding, more supportive, and accepting of each other. Overall family functioning, with wife and daughters, is a blessing; home full of love. Daughters need quality time and emotional presence from me. This is one area I try to dedicate quality time to. I like to involve myself in their worlds. Family of origin issues: continue to strengthen relationship with parents and sister. These relationships have improved significantly since addiction recovery. There was a long time when my relationship with family centered on how to avoid them as much as I could. I need to have initiative and dedicate time to help these relationships flourish.Career and Lifestyle FactorsConverge the test data and impressions on past, present, and future occupational choices:Test data conveys career and lifestyle options that are consistent with my present reality, future aspirations, passion, abilities, and strengths. As far as the MTBI, the main type is INFJ (Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging). This type has characteristics of “Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how to best serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.” It also lists in its possible careers Substance Abuse Counselor and Director of Social Service Agency. In relation to the REASIC Code, it resulted in SIA (Social, Investigative, Artistic). This code mentions rewards such as good feeling that comes from helping others, freedom and opportunity to satisfy an inner curiosity, and opportunities for creating new things. The SIA Occupations include Clinical Psychologist and Counseling Psychologist.As far as past occupational choices are concerned, I believe I made a lot of mistakes and not good decisions, mostly based on other’s expectations of me. These expectations were sometimes explicit and sometimes not explicit. For example, my father had explicit expectations of me as a business person, while I felt society had implicit expectations of me in regards to my career choices. This also had to do with my self-esteem and self-concept as I wanted to feel accepted by my family and mainstream society. Early during my bachelor’s degree I knew I wanted to study psychology, but it became such an overwhelming force to go against. I ended up majoring in Finance without really knowing why, except that it was well seen by my family and friends. All my work experience after this, and until 2010, centered on business administration.During 2009, I was working as the General Manager of a construction company and was not enjoying myself. I was complaining frequently about my job, some to my wife, but mostly to myself. The aspect of complaining and not doing anything about it was excruciating. At the end of 2009 I started finally to study psychology on Saturdays and started to feel a little congruency. Then the door to the Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling opened up and I took that opportunity at the beginning of 2010. This was followed almost immediately by the start of my new work, the start-up of an addiction treatment project, CEA, the job that I currently hold. This is when I started to feel in sink and fully congruent. I had arrived.One important characteristic in me is that of my drive and motivation which can be much focused. This is validated by my MBTI type of INFJ (specifically the J) which states that I am “decisive in implementing their vision”. Also in the NEO, the very high score of 99, which states that “this means you set clear goals and pursue them with determination.” Finally, the SCS Work portrays Personal Qualities of “driven” and “gratitude” which fuels my determination and clarity of focus. Now having started the Doctorate in Professional Counseling (DPC) Program with specialization in Addictions and its emphasis on clinical aspects, I am confident I am strengthening my vision of where I want to head in relation to future occupational choices. First, there are many new and exciting projects still left to do at my present job. Sometime in the future I would like to work as the head of the national government agency that deals with alcoholism and addiction in my country. I would also like to work as a university professor and clinical supervisor in the addictions field, not only in Nicaragua, but also in the United States. I am very clear of what I want and definitely why I want.Describe lifestyle needs and preferences for work and leisure environments:Lifestyle needs and preferences for work:Work that is aimed at helping others, specifically in addiction related issues. Highly valued environment of challenges, leadership, autonomy, starting up of new projects, and projects that have national impact in regards to addiction/mental health issues. Discuss how the preliminary statement of specialization fits the results of the present assessmentMy preliminary statement of specialization is that of Addictions. It fits very well with the results of the present assessment. I feel that I currently have my present dream job in the addiction field in Nicaragua and the area of specialization would strengthen my position and the future direction I seek in my life. Personal and Professional Adjustment Integrate relevant test dataIn relation to data helpful in personal and professional adjustment, test results such as the NEO conveys an extroversion score in the low end of the “Average” category. I know sociability is one area in which I need adjustments to enrich my interpersonal relationships and the capacity to build intimacy. This, of course, would require an increased willingness and capacity for extroversion. This is consonant with other results, such as those found in the SCS Work in relation to preferences to work independently as opposed to being a part of a team, unless I am the leader and the SCS Adult results with narratives that include enjoyment of time alone and reduction of circle of friends outside recovery or relationships outside family. The MBTI also supports this finding with a strong inclination for the Introversion type. This is a very important aspect for the betterment of personal and professional relationships and issues and for building stronger therapeutic alliances.In another aspect worth noting, the NEO result of “High” in “Agreeableness” indicates my aversion to conflict and confrontation. Conflict management is something that I do in my job, but that I rather not do. In the SCS Work there was a description of disliking personnel petty discussions and conflicts. This mainly relates to personal and professional differences amongst staff. It is one area in which I need to work in order to more openly speak my mind and express what I feel and think. I have learned to be assertive, but sometimes it requires a big effort from my part. Normalization of assertiveness is a practice that would definitely benefit ment on fitness for clinical practice with particular populations and in current position:Fitness for clinical practice in current position with addicted population is appropriate in the following aspects: Physical: I am currently in the best physical shape I have been in since my late teens. I believe physical stamina can be very beneficial for a counselor in overall wellbeing.Emotional: emotional reactions seem appropriateMental: psychological reactions, including learning capabilities, seem appropriateCompetence: in terms of knowledge, skills, and abilities are in line with experience.Biggest challenge for fitness maintenance is time allocation for all personal and professional activities. Keeping recovery based activities as a priority is essential for me and my wellbeing.Describe any countertransference issues and roadblocks to independent practiceI believe my main countertransference issue deals with authoritative, strict older men that remind me of my father. Assertiveness is lacking in these circumstances. I know that sometimes with my father I regress and feel like a small child wishing for acceptance. Another countertransference issue is that with spouses of men starting addiction treatment that exhibit codependency traits. I can provide comfortably short term interventions with this population, but I do not feel very helpful carrying out longer term therapeutic processes. Specify a few supervision needsImprovement in assertiveness for better confrontational skill.Improvement in higher extroversion for building stronger and deeper intimacy.Improvement in recognition of new DSM V diagnostic criteria and in mental health counseling interventions.Supervision related to above mentioned countertransference issues.Supervision on work with clients in harm reduction process versus abstinence process, as it relates to substance use problems.SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONSThe Personal Assessment Report had three main objectives as its purpose. These objectives included the establishment of data in order to a) develop a Personal Growth Plan, b) complete a self-screening of personal adjustment and fitness for professional counseling practice, and c) clarify career and lifestyle needs while specifying area of specialization. I believe the three objectives were accomplished successfully during the Personal Assessment Report. The results yielded findings which I agree with and had implications of areas of guidance in which I can grow as a counselor and human being.One specific recommendation I have for my Personal Growth Plan in regards to improving my social skills and extroversion scores is to dedicate time to social activities with friends that are not part of my recovery group. Assertiveness training is another aspect that should become a part of this plan as this is a new skill I have been practicing in the past few years, but there is still much room for improvement. Both of these aspects have a direct influence, not only my personal life, but also directly on my professional competence and growth. I do believe, though, that my most important recommendation for my Personal Growth Plan is a plan of finding balance among all my life activities while acknowledging my recovery, my faith, and my family as the priorities and basis of my life. In this regard, and in addition to personal therapy and supervision, I have a great need to work a personal 12 Step recovery program and all that implies, such as having a sponsor, sponsor others, work steps, practice spiritual principles in all my affairs, and be of service to others.As for specific Career and Lifestyle recommendations, I would like to continue on the path I am presently on; one on the addictions field and related issues. I know I am where I am supposed to be and I feel incredibly grateful every single second for all the opportunities that I have to live my life in such a consistent and congruent way, with a career that encompasses all that I am and that I wish to be. The DPC program and my area of specialization of Addictions is now an essential stepping stone in all future career decisions and an integral aspect of my Career and Lifestyle choices. Finally, my observations in relation to issues to address in therapy and supervision include the importance to enhance my personal growth in order to deal with countertransference issues mentioned above, including my feelings with figures such as my father and my spouse. I also need to address my need for improvement in assertiveness and extroversion. These issues portray both personal and professional implications for the betterment of me as a person and counselor. Particular to clinical supervision is my need for improvement in recognition of new DSM V diagnostic criteria and in mental health counseling interventions for a population with mental disorders that are not co-occurring with a substance use disorder, as this is an area in which I have less experience. Lastly, I have a need for supervision in relation to working with people with substance use issues for which abstinence is not an objective. Student:Javier LeyDate:December 15th, 2013Consent: The present Personal Assessment Report can be viewed by CADRE leader of DPC program, corresponding faculty, and other CADRE members.Appendix ALIFE LINE - CAREER DEVELOPMENTJAVIER LEYBorn August, 6 of 1973Immigrated to the United States at the end of 1985 (age 12, 6th grade)Moved back to Nicaragua June 1990 (age 16, 10th grade)Finished high school May 1993Moved back to the United States in August 1993 to attend The University of FloridaMoved back to Nicaragua in December 1998 after graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration with a major in FinanceStarted working in Banco del Café (local bank) in February 1999 in the Micro-Credit DepartmentStarted own company ICOM as a mobile phone distributor for Bellsouth in middle of 2000Quit working in Banco del Café in late 2000Started own company as a uniform manufacturer and distributor, MI UNIFORME, in 2001Started own business KULTURA in 2003 as a clothing retailer and electronic music bar and loungeStarted own business BLU in 2003 as an event and concert production company By the end of 2004 I was unable to work successfully because of drug addiction. Business partners kept respective business after stock sale.August 28, 2006 I was born again, having started alcohol and drug treatment in Costa RicaStarted working in Nicaragua’s main mattress manufacturer and distributor CAMAS LUNA as Marketing and Sales Manager in March 2007Became CAMAS LUNA General Manager in January 2008Changed jobs and became General Manager of INGENESIS in November 2008. INGENESIS was a construction company, mainly of office buildings. Company closed projects because of recession in November 2009Worked as a project consultant for the Danish Embassy from December 2009 until February 2010Started studying Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Saint Mary’s University in January 2010Started working as Project Manager for CEA (Centro de Especialidades en Adicciones) in March 2010. CEA’s mission centers on addiction treatment, prevention, and educationStarted working as Executive Director of CEA in November 2010Started working also as the Clinical Director of CEA in September 2011. I currently hold both positions in CEA, Executive and Clinical DirectorStarted Doctorate in Professional Counseling Program through Mississippi College in August 2013 Appendix BJAVIER LEY Km 10.3 Carr Masaya, Managua, Nicaragua Tel (505) 2276-2559 Cel (505) 8920-1000 E-mail: javier.ley@SUMMARYExecutive and Clinical Director of Nicaraguan private not for profit organization aimed at providing treatment and prevention programs for those with alcohol and/or substance abuse problems. Program methods are evidence based and clinical professionals are internationally certified. Main interests include addiction treatment, prevention and positive psychology. OBJECTIVETo earn a Doctorate in Professional Counseling with the specialization in Addictions and advance academic growth.RELEVANT EXPERIENCECENTRO DE ESPECIALIDADES EN ADICCIONES (CEA)Executive / Clinical Director, Mar 2010 - presentDeveloped and executed the initial project for this not for profit organization aimed at providing treatment and prevention programs for those with alcohol and/or substance abuse problems.Supervises the administrative, accounting, financial, marketing and clinical teams.Supervises fund raising and funding activities.Supervises interdisciplinary clinical team in relation to treatment activities and case management.Develops and supervises plans for prevention activities in schools, universities, companies, and communities.Develops and supervises educational components at university level for addiction professionals in preparation for international certification as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor.Led clinical team that earned Certificate of Excellence by the Matrix Institute on Addictions in Los Angeles, California.Head representative of organization as a member board before the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC).OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCESelected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) as Co-Chair for the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Credential Committee – October 2013Selected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) as a Subject Matter Expert to participate in the Job Task Analysis for Alcohol and Drug Counselors – August 2013Selected by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) to participate in a Cut Score Study to determine the new passing point for the international examination required for Alcohol and Drug Counselor Certification – June 2013Member of the private practice counseling team, “RENACER” – Since January 2013OTHER WORK EXPERIENCEOther prior work experience centered in business administration areas, including finance, sales, marketing, advertisement, event production, manufacturing production, and banking. EDUCATIONMASTER OF ARTS, CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELINGSaint Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas, 2012Earned recognition as “Distinguished Graduate”, with a 4.0 overall GPABACHELOR OF SCIENCE, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Major: FinanceThe University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1998Earned recognition as “High Honors”, Spring 1994Scored in the top three percent of 1000 students in Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 1993CERTIFICATES AND TRAININGSIC&RC ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION American College and CEA, Nicaragua 2012-2013FOUNDATIONS OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING IIMid Atlantic Addiction Technology Center (ATTC) Online, 2012KEY SUPERVISOR MATRIX INSTITUTEMatrix Institute, Los Angeles, California, 7/2010FOUNDATIONS OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING ICEA, Nicaragua, 12/2010RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY CEA, Nicaragua, 12/2010 ................
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