Trauma-Informed Licensed Mental Health Therapist

LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH (CLINICALLY TRAINED) TRAUMA-THERAPIST & LICENSED CLINICAL HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATOR

Julieanna Peters Cover Letter

Julianna Peters

LNHA, MSW, LMSW, Post-Masters CADC-Pending

Licensed Clinically Trained Mental Health Social Worker, (MSW, LMSW)

Licensed Clinical Healthcare Administrator, (LNHA)

Trauma & Addictions Clinically Informed Specialist (TACIS)

Georgetown Condominiums of Palatine

250 North Carter Street. Palatine, IL 60067

Mobile: 847-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

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Verified Psychology Today Provider: 150.1044-48

November 10, 2026

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to express my interest in a Licensed Mental Health Therapist position. I have over 15-direct practice in nursing as well as a social work therapist in community-based practice and clinical evidence-based behavioral health, and hospital systems. I am clinically Licensed Master Social Worker with advanced specialization as a Certified Trauma and Addictions Therapist. In addition, I have experience as a leader, manager and psychotherapist, providing behavior modification, facilitating group therapy, family therapy and individual Talk Therapy targeted for adult to older-adult chronic illness populations suffering from developmental, trauma-related and neurocognitive disorders. My dual provider license enables me to work as a Licensed Health Care Administrator working with older adults with chronic illness/disease to. Supplement my work as a Licensed Mental Health Therapist interested in specializing in more individualized clinical psychotherapy modalities targeted to young-adult, couples, children and adolescents. Most of my career has entailed work in behavioral health, crisis intervention, specializing in Medical Social Work within an interdisciplinary-diagnostic and clinical nursing rehabilitation system. I bring more than 20 years of knowledge and experience serving diverse clients across inpatient-outpatient psychiatric, medical model skilled nursing, residential treatment, hospital systems. I was fortunate to act as facilitator, manager and therapist for two new low-income-federal housing tax credit supportive-living facilities, under the direction of licensee, and a great interdisciplinary team. Managing new social model targeted to special need disability populations for physically disabled adults and veterans 21-64 with traumatic brain injury, strokes, addictions, and co-morbid substance use disorders and mental health conditions who are severely marginalized in the northern Chicago region.

I hold a master’s degree in clinical mental health from The School of Social Work, at Loyola University Chicago. My niche is Trauma-Informed-Practice and Related Disorders. My bachelor’s degree was obtained from DePaul University Chicago, with a degree in Human Behavior and Applied Behavioral Analysis. To strengthen my trauma-focused clinical practice, I completed post-master’s credentialing as a Certified Clinical Trauma and Addictions Specialist. I also hold advanced training and certifications in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, clinical telehealth, advanced grief therapy, trauma-informed care, geriatric dementia care, and evidence-based treatment for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.

My clinical approach integrates evidence-based and client-centered modalities, including psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, motivational approaches, Internal Family Systems-informed work, EMDR-informed neuroscience concepts, somatic and mindfulness-based strategies, exposure-based interventions, and memory reconsolidation principles. I am especially committed to trauma-informed care that recognizes the role of the autonomic nervous system, developmental trauma, grief, domestic and intimate partner violence, and complex PTSD across the lifespan.

As a survivor of domestic violence, I also specialize in this area. My treatment focus is on domestic and intimate partner violence and narcissistic coercive control relationships. I am trained in Identification, documentation, reporting and trauma-informed-care. My niche in this area is domestic violence and psychopathic abuse. I have several certifications in The Neurobiology of Trauma and Lethality. Narcissistic & Psychopathic Abuse: Clinical training. On the New Field of Traumatic Pathological Love Relationships. From the Institute of Harm Reduction. Certified in Emotional Abuse and Gaslighting: Tool in therapy to break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Personal Power.

Throughout my career, I have provided crisis counseling, biopsychosocial assessments, mental status screenings, diagnostic formulation, treatment planning, group therapy, individual counseling, family systems interventions, discharge planning, and interdisciplinary case collaboration. In inpatient psychiatric and behavioral health settings, I have supported clients experiencing trauma-related disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, dual diagnoses, neurocognitive conditions, developmental disorders, and acute psychosocial crises. I am experienced in documenting clinical quality indicators, contributing to electronic medical records, participating in care planning meetings, and coordinating treatment with interdisciplinary teams.

In addition to my mental health clinical background, I am licensed as a Clinical Health Care Administrator and have served in leadership roles supporting older adults, individuals with neurocognitive and physical disabilities, and clients with complex medical, psychiatric, and social needs. My background includes skilled nursing, sub-acute rehabilitation, long-term care, adult protective services advocacy, legal guardianship collaboration, quality assurance, compliance, case management, and residential treatment leadership. This dual clinical and administrative perspective allows me to understand both direct client care and the broader systems that influence access, continuity, quality, and outcomes.

I am passionate about creating a therapeutic environment grounded in dignity, transparency, cultural humility, safety, and collaboration. My work is guided by the belief that each client is the expert of their own lived experience, and that effective therapy requires trust, respect, individualized treatment planning, and a strengths-based approach. I am comfortable working with adolescents, adults, older adults, families, couples, and clients navigating complex trauma, grief, substance use, behavioral health challenges, and major life transitions.

As a survivor of trauma, Intimate Partner Violence, developmental trauma, and overcoming unsurmountable disability, I feel I bring a reflexive resilience to my work with clients. I provide work that aligns with cultural humility as I support all diversified cultural world views and gender orientations. I also practice as a Christian- therapist using spiritual values and real-world transparency in my work with clients. I provide a non-expert eclectic lens which I practice evidence-based knowledge into the treatment alliance, thereby, building trust that supports the client as an expert of their own lived experience. I provide a welcoming, empathetic safe space that encourages emotional healing. Moreover, I feel giving purpose to hopelessness, can be adaptive not necessarily oppressive. Transformation begins with client empowerment, client ownership of goal directed behavior, which I feel is integral to therapeutic change. A major factor in positive client outcomes is feeling motivation to change. Externalizing the problem, not stigmatizing the problem unto the client is life affirming to prevent recidivism. I have experienced this stigma myself and am very present and empathetic to how subjugating this prejudice can be on disabling the client further. Cohesively we unwrap the client’s trauma and create new meanings, reconstructing the problematic narrative into client empowerment which rewrites the script and sets a new path of learning and transformative growth whereupon the client embarks on a new journey, of purposefulness and healing.

I love learning and growth in the field of mental health. Learning is power and I am open to new and innovative treatment modalities, especially in the field of the neuroscience of trauma (body-brain) therapies supporting addiction, mood disorders and cognitive memory reconsolidation. I am always open to new therapeutic modalities that align with clients and the treatment team as trauma-informed-care provider.

I would welcome the opportunity to bring my diversified clinical expertise, trauma-informed perspective, and commitment to the therapeutic relationship as a compassionate therapist to your organization Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how my background and experience may align with the needs, mission and objectives of your interdisciplinary treatment team.

Kindest Regards,

Julianna Peters, LNHA, MSW, LMSW, Clinical

Trauma & Addictions Specialist, (CTAS)

NOVEMBER 10, 2026

LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST, MSW, LMSW, LNHA-C-DBT

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