Currently, I am an authorized trainer for Social Work Examination Services. I have been teaching a license review course to small groups since Spring 2009, as well as tutoring individuals locally or on-line via Skype. I am also supervising social workers via Skype or in person.

In 1986, I co-led a workshop at the Univ. of Cincinnati, School of Social Work, Continuing Ed , “Supervision of Staff and Students”

 

In 1989, I went on to teach the graduate level supervision course “Theory and Practice of Supervision” for one quarter at the University of Cincinnati.

 

 

I began working at Mental Health Services – East, a local community mental health center, soon after my arrival in Cincinnati in 1975. I began as a staff therapist, seeing a varied group of individuals, couples and families, people whose functioning spanned a broad range of capacity, from those recently discharged from the state hospital to many community members undergoing a variety of crises. After several years I was promoted to be the Clinical Director of the agency and began to supervise the other senior staff, which included MSW’s, LISW’s, and PhD’s in psychology.

 

During my years at MHS-E  I was lucky to have been part of a program which matched senior psychotherapists in the community with eager learners (me) in six-month long weekly supervisory relationships. This experience, learning from a variety of skilled and talented individuals, helped me think about supervisory styles, processes and methods and to develop my own skills. Later on, when I was in full-time private practice I became a supervisor in this same program.       

 

I was kept very busy by my private practice and saw clients from Employee Assistance programs, and later developed my own EAP company, CrossRoads, Inc.  Despite the inevitable time crunch, I participated in a peer supervision group with colleagues for many years. I understood that it was nurturing and restorative to be able to sit down and discuss my work, get feedback, and learn from respected peers.

 

So it is in the spirit of my great respect for and appreciation of what the process of learning together can provide that I am offering my services.