Courses

Post-Graduate Classes and Certifications

Certificate in Clinical Supervision
Center for Practice Transformation
University of Minnesota

  • Core Competencies in Clinical Supervision
  • Beyond 101: Navigating and Utilizing ‘Self’ in Supervisory Relationships
  • The Ethics of Supervision: Utilizing a Decision-Making Model to Navigate Rough Waters
  • Group Work in Supervision: Fundamentals, Models, and Approaches
  • Hope for the Heavy Heart: Recognizing and Healing Secondary Traumatic Stress
  • Incorporating the Ally Model of Social Justice to the Supervision Process

Multi-Systemic Therapist Training
MST Services

  • 5 Day Introductory MST Therapist Training
    • Social Ecological Theory
    • Behavior Therapy/Parent Management Training
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
    • Structural Family Therapy
    • Strategic Family Therapy
  • Technology Supports for Parents
  • Using Behavioral Specific Language to Sharpen Clinical Focus
  • Trauma Across Generations: The Impact of Historical Trauma
  • MST Intervention for Parents with Low Social Supports or Low Alignment with the MST Model
  • Treating Substance Use in MST
  • Trans & Queer Identity Training

HOMEBUILDERS Therapist Training
Institute for Family Development

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training
  • Motivational Interviewing Training

Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare

  • Child Welfare Policy and Process
  • Permanency and Adoption Through the Lens of the Relational Worldview
  • Adoption History, Law and Process
  • Introduction to Adoption Competent Mental Health Practice
  • Clinical and Ethical Issues in Planning, Preparing for and Supporting Adoption
  • Clinical Issues in Providing Therapeutic Services: Grief, Loss, Separation and Identity
  • Trauma and Brain Neurobiology
  • Clinical Issues in Providing Therapeutic Services: Attachment
  • Adopted Adolescents and Identity Formation
  • Adoptive and Birth Families
  • Adult Adoptees
  • Working with Adoptive Parents on Managing Children’s Behaviors
  • Openness in Adoption
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Experiences of the Adoption Kinship Network
  • Integrating Knowledge, Values and Skills

Graduate Coursework
Case Western Reserve University

  • Non-Profit Revenue Planning and Development (SASS 407)
  • Family Systems Interventions (SASS 517)
  • Children and Families in the School Setting (SASS 519)
  • AIDS Policy Seminar (SASS 525)
  • Family and Children Policy and Service Delivery (SASS 529)
  • Practice Evaluation (SASS 530)
  • Problem Identification, Screening, Assessment, and Diagnosis (SASS 547)
  • Theories and Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (SASS 549)
  • Trauma Informed Social Work Practice with Children & Families (SASS550)
  • Women’s Issues (SASS 555)
  • Social Work Practice with Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (SASS 564)
  • Legal Issues in Social Work Practice (SASS 547)
  • Field Education II (SASS 602)
  • Field Education III (SASS 603)
  • Field Education IV (SASS 604)

Undergraduate Coursework
St. Olaf College

  • Biological Science (BIO 121)
  • Principles of Economics (ECON 121)
  • Human Sexuality (FAMST 253)
  • Principles of Psychology (PSYCH 125)
  • Menacing Minds (PSYCH 221)
  • Social Psychology (PSYCH 249)
  • Developmental Psychology (PSYCH 262)
  • Class Status and Power (SOAN 268)
  • Beginning Spanish 1 (SPAN 111)
  • Beginning Spanish 2 (SPAN 112)
  • Intermediate Spanish 1 (SPAN 231)
  • Principles of Statistics (STATS 110)
  • Social Work and Social Welfare (SWRK 221)
  • Human Behavior in the Social Environment (SWRK 246)
  • Inclusive Practice: Individual and Family (SWRK 254)
  • Family Social Services in Central Mexico (SWRK 256)
  • Inclusive Practice: Groups Organizations and Communities (SWRK 261)
  • Evaluations of Social Work Practice and Programs (SWRK 274)
  • Social Policy (SWRK 258)
  • Culturally Competent Practice (SWRK 373)
  • Filed Practicum (SWRK 380)
  • Social Worker as a Professional (SWRK 381)
  • Psychology of Good and Evil (WRIT 111)