Therapist- Consultant Long-term&Rehab Sr.Services

CURRICULUM VITAE PHOEBE VAN HAM ******@***************.*** 630-***-****

Licensure, Continuing Ed., Certifications,LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Life Coach, BCC Certified; Institute for Life Coach, ILTC; Wellness Specialty

Healthcare Provider BLS CPR Certification, Edwards Hospital, October 2012

Teambuilding/Development for Core Teams; Peer mediation/counseling; Resiliency

Domestic Violence Certification; Mediation Training

Appreciative Inquiry Coach Training; MBTI [Myers Briggs] Assessments and Career Reports

“Callings” Workshops by Gregg Levoy Hospice Certification CNS; Perinatal and Neonatal Loss; “Helping Families Face the Early Stages of Alzheimer’s"; “Advances in Science and

Care” Daniel Kuhn & Alzheimer’s Assn -Greater Ill. Chapter

“Helping the Elder to Receive Help” by Pat O’Dea, Silver Connections

“Maintaining Healthy Boundaries” by Vitas Healthcare of Illinois

Type 73 School Social Work Certification

Advanced groups; Drugs & alcohol counseling

EDUCATION and PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS

Internships in Family Therapy and Brief Therapy in and out patient, Adolescent Groups, Geriatric Groups, Follow-Up research –outcome evaluations of Therapy

Provena Mercy Center, Aurora; Dundee Family Services, Dundee, Illinois

MSW University of Illinois Jane Addams College of Social Work

BA Wheaton College, Major Anthropology/Social Sciences

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 - 2013 Coaching and Therapeutic Interaction Glen Ellyn, Il, private practice

Family meetings; Individual, Couples, Adolescents and Group Therapist

Contract with Geriatric Therapy Specialist to provide therapy in long-term care settings

Seniors Ind- Group Therapeutic Project in short-term rehab and long term skilled care facility; chaplaincy care--individual-group interaction, communicating resiliency, grief counseling, support social skills development, pain management, enhancing residents’ adjustment in daily life activities and transitions

Mid- 2nd Half of Life Issues-Empty-Nesting-Kids Leaving Home, Aging-Aging Parent-Adult Child Transitions; MBTI assessments for career and personality; Planning with couples and families on Non-financial aspects of Retirement

Secured and managed contracts and referrals with insurances, EAP counseling, substance abuse evaluations, crisis debriefings through EAP contracts;

2006-2008 Aurora University, Adjunct Faculty, Liaison to MSW Interns’ Field Placements in

Schools and/or agencies and their Supervisors

1997-2007 Center for Therapeutic Interaction, Non-Profit CEO and Founder

Partners for Success contract with alternative high school, Addison, Illinois --Consultant

to Teachers,Tutors and College Tutor-Liaisons from Elmhurst, Wheaton, North Central Colleges; Supervised Social Workers for clinical licensure

Hired, Supervised Staff, Volunteers in Daily operations; Worked with Board of Directors; Special Event Planning and Fund Raising; Secured and supervised contracts/subcontracts [Child Welfare, DuPage County, Insurances-Managed Care, EAP] and Grants;

Publicized programs in Community; Speaking; Recruited and supervised Clinical staff

1994-1996 Central DuPage Hospital Behavioral Health, Outpatient Therapist,

with families, adolescents, children; included EAP work and Drug-Alcohol evaluations

1990-1996 Family Shelter Services, Wheaton, Director of Counseling

Trained and Supervised staff and over 40 Graduate / College level Interns coordinating with over 16 Universities, Colleges and Seminaries

Directed non-shelter program for counseling women-children; Coordinated children’s program for non-shelter women-children; writing excerpts for program manual for non-shelter services; communication between programs

Planned and coordinated continuing education events for staff and volunteers on topics of addictions [substance abuse and domestic violence], reframing, brief therapy, multi-cult-uralism, lesbian gay populations in dv; classism, differently-abled

1986-1988 Community Service Council of Northern Will County, Bolingbrook-Romeoville

DuPage Township -Clinical Director/Supervisor-Therapist

Intake and Supervision of MSW interns; Diverse staff; worked with schools to increase referrals for teens and families;Tripled referral base increasing community support

1981 -1986 Family Service Association of DuPage, Wheaton, Il.

Individual, Family, Couples Therapy; Parent Ed; Divorce Groups; High School Soc.Wk

Community satellite office marketing: Dept of Children & Family Services Contract

Nursing Home Consultation; attended Clergy and Social Work Meetings

Committee on rewriting of Personnel Manual

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE in EDUCATION

1981-2005 School Social Work & Consultation -Districts 129, 131, East & West Aurora, District 200 Wheaton Community Dist, Dist 87 Glenbard South High-Glen Ellyn, Little Friends, Naperville; Southwest Cook County Coop Oak Forest School Social Worker with Elementary, Pre-School, Developmental Kindergarten; Middle and High School Students, ESL Families

Assisted in Formation of Crisis team and Crisis Debriefings; Coaching PBIS & Student Assistance Team Members

Student individual,Group, Family and Crisis counseling; Grief Counseling

Supervised psychology interns

Consulted with behavioral disorders teacher-classroom and IEP students

Directed Family Outreach to homes of students, visitation and consultation with teachers and students; staffing with placing school districts

Avocation - Interests

Served on Linden Oaks at Edward Allied Staff Steering Committee

Board member HUD Board for Affordable Housing for seniors

Pastoral Partners and Board of Deacons Term at Hope Presbyterian Church; Personnel Committee for Securing Interim Pastor; Music for Church, Camp, Senior Facilities, Special Events; School Journalism Writer for All-School Assemblies

Swimming, Walking, Biking

REFERENCES

Amendt, John, LCSW, LMFT, Consultant at Center for Therapeutic Interaction and Coaching and

Therapeutic Interaction; Director of the Marriage Clinic/Trainer-Therapist at Village of

Schaumburg Family Counseling Center 1-847-***-**** *******@**.**********.**.**

Berner, Randall, LCPC, Therapist at CTI; Program Director of Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc

Behavioral Health and Community Services1- 505-***-**** *******@*******.***

Bonkowski, Dr. Sara LCSW, Consultant; Liaison with Aurora University with students from A.U. that

I supervised at Family Shelter; Board Member of Center for Therapeutic Interaction

Board; Owner of Myrtle Burks Center for Clinical Social Work1- 630-***-****

Dugan, Bernadette, MSW, Supervisor at Family Services of DuPage/Glenbard South High School

1-630-***-**** ********@*****.***

Moriarty, Leean, BS/CTRS, 6107W123rd Street, Palos Heights, Il 60463 ***********@*******.***

847-***-**** Consultant in Long-Term/Skilled Care industry

Scowden, Donna, Guidance Counselor College at Glenbard South High School; Whitmer High

School,Sylvania 1-419-***-**** ********@***.***

Snyder, Chuck, President of Affordable Housing for Wisc. Seniors I am on the Board of Directors;

He was Secretary-Treasurer of Center for Therapeutic Interaction Board of Directors 630- 325-2043 ********@***.***

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