Focused LMSW who has worked at Resodential, PHP, and OP levels of care

VIRGINIA ERHOLTZ

Therapist

Memphis

619-***-**** *********@*****.***

PROFILE

Focused Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) aiming to leverage proven knowledge of evidence-based models of care and strengths-based client interventions to successfully fill the therapist role at your agency. Frequently praised as detail-oriented, passionate, and innovative by my teachers and supervisors, I can be relied upon to help your agency achieve its goals. Long term goals include LCSW licensure, Certified Integrative Somatic Therapy (ISTP) Practitioner and to work with individuals and/or families utilizing trauma informed modalities and interventions to provide individuals relief from the effects of trauma, shame, and toxic stress to improve client quality of life. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Community/Primary Therapist Hybrid, Fairhaven Treatment Center May 2022 — Present Cordova

• Provide individual and family therapy

• Facilitate group therapy for assigned groups (Internal Family Systems [IFS], Compassion Focused Therapy, Expressive Arts, Adolescent ACT, Food and Feelings, Mind Body, Equine), and individual sessions for clients utilizing client centered interventions and cultural humility.

• Participate functionally as a member of an interdisciplinary team in coordination and delivery of client care to a diverse population of persons suffering from eating disorders and related mental health comorbidities.

• Provide clinical support at mealtime with clients

• Provide crisis intervention via completing the CSSRS and safety planning and provide clinical check-ins when clients appear dysregulated in the milieu.

• Communicate with relevant internal care providers to complete on-going assessment and to coordinate care

• Review and follow all clinical protocols for clinical services/interventions

• Provide new client orientations

• Complete outcomes measures as assigned

• Participate in clinical on-call phone rotation

Clinical Therapy Intern (Paid), Veterans Administration Hospital, Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) Aug 2021 — May 2022

Memphis

• Collaborate with a team of interdisciplinary mental health professionals within BHIP to advocate for and meet Veterans’ mental health needs and attend and participate in weekly and monthly staff meetings, as well as weekly supervisory sessions.

• Provide weekly clinical psychotherapy, support, and trauma-informed, client centered interventions in an integrated behavioral health setting to a part time case load of 13 individual Veterans with complex biopsychosocial needs including homelessness, bi-polar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, PTSD, complex PTSD, substance use disorders, major depressive, generalized anxiety, adjustment disorders and more.

• Facilitate weekly Anger Management group therapy.

• Conduct consults, intake, and biopsychosocial, assessments, psychoeducation, treatment plans, diagnosis, case management, and referrals for individual and group clients using a variety of modalities for client centered care in a professional and culturally competent manner.

• Additional responsibilities include scheduling appointments, case management, and completing progress notes in a timely manner.

• Modalities used include ACT, CBT, EFT, Motivational Interviewing, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Embodiment, Mindfulness Training, and DBT.

• Facilitate Emergency Walk-in Clinic weekly to assess Veterans in crisis for suicidality and homicidal ideation as well as provide crisis intervention, case management, and referrals to appropriate VA and community care. Trainee/Grant Recipient; MidSouth Behavioral Health Training Initiative (MIBH-TI), University of Memphis

Aug 2020 — Jan 2021

Memphis

• Selected for a competitive training program and awarded a monthly stipend, this training equips MSW students to serve under-served populations in the Mid-south to increase the behavioral health workforce.

• Trained over six experiential-didactic day sessions, six competency-based assignments, and pre-test and post-test competency assessments.

• Sessions and assignments based on Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health, Engagement with Families, Cultural and Linguistic Competency, Emerging Mental Health, Inter-professional Education, and Evidence-Based Practices.

Social Work Intern, Hope House Memphis Jan 2021

Memphis

• Facilitate Medication Adherence and Self Sufficiency Groups weekly.

• Assist clients with food pantry, hygiene, and cleaning needs.

• Utilize generalist practice Social Work skills to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.

• Assess how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery of and access to social services.

• Advocate, negotiate, and mediate with and on the client’s behalf.

• Organize client files; write progress note for each client contact.

• Perform intake assessments and implement knowledge of HIV, Ryan White Care, and Medication Management to develop mutually agreed-on treatment plans, intervention strategies, and goals with clients based on assessment of client’s needs, strengths, and challenges. Research Assistant, University of Memphis Jan 2021 — Present Memphis

• Assist Dr Seok Won Jin and small research team to discover the barriers & facilitators to HPV Vaccinations among African American adolescents in Shelby County Tennessee.

• Recruit parent participants and obtain consent forms and schedule zoom interviews.

• Perform qualitative interviews to explore barriers and facilitators to children ages 11-17 receiving HPV vaccine, record findings, and code data.

• Communicate with team and present data in staff meetings.

• Educate parent participants about HPV after interview completed.

• Assist team in writing an abstract for the Society for Social Work Research (CSWE) 2021 conference.

• Assist team in writing findings for publication. EDUCATION

University Of Memphis Jan 2019 — May 2022

Master of Social Work Memphis

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude, 2022

• Dean's List, Jan 2019-2022

• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2020-2022

SKILLS

Communication and Presentation

Interpersonal Skills

Good time management

Teamwork Skills

Leadership Skills

Excellent clinical and professional

writing skills; undergraduate minor in

English: Professional Writing.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Volunteer at Libertas School of Memphis, 2017-2021

• Volunteer Facilitator for OUTMemphis, Jan-Sept 2020

• Volunteer at Choices, Memphis, 2018-2019

COURSES

Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies Levels I, II

&III

Collectively Rooted; Linda Thai 2022

Women’s Health Inter-Professional: Suicide Prevention in Women Veterans

VA; 2022

Cultural Competency: Plays Well with Others Certificate NCAC, 2021

Clinical Documentation: How to Write Efficient and Ethical Progress Notes Certificate

NBCC, 2021

Telehealth for Mental Health Professionals: 2-Day Distance Therapy Training

Pesi, 2020

Social and Behavioral Research Certificate

CITI Program, 2020

Building Strong Brains

Tennessee’s ACE Initiative and the Role of Life Experiences in Shaping Brain Development, 2019 Child Sexual Abuse 101

NCAC, 2019

Child Development 101

NCAC, 2019

EFT Level 1 & 2

EFT International; 2022

LGBTQIA Trauma Apr 2023

Love Doesn't Hurt

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practitioner Training Level 2(ISTP) May 2023 — Present Ratha Chek

Publications Jan 2021 — Present

Memphis

Jin SW, Lattimore DC, Harlin E, Davis L, Erholtz V, Brandt HM. Medical and public health professionals' perceived facilitators and barriers of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among African American adolescents in Shelby County, Tennessee. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 May 10;23(1):469. doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09415-6. PMID: 37165427; PMCID: PMC10173571.

Current Supervisor: Chanda Dunn

******.****@**.***; 901-***-**** x6434; Memphis

Chanda Dunn, LCSW-S

VA Hospital

Private pay and funded by this applicant

Contact this candidate