A Bit About Me

I truly think working in mental health is the most rewarding field there can be.  Starting right out of high school, I secured a job working as a Mental Health Technician in a locked psych unit at a local hospital and never looked back.  At that hospital I ended up becoming the project coordinator of their Management of Aggressive Behavior Training Program as well as helping the development and implementation of their Behavioral Support Team (BST), which is an early response team to escalating patient behavior with the goal to de-escalate and avoid an Involuntary Emergency Procedure. 

Since that position, I moved to working for the Department of Mental Health in a High Security Psychiatric Hospital caring for both long term and forensic psychiatric patients.  It was at this hospital that I saw how much work Mental Health needs improve in America.  I want to do everything in my power to make the mental health system reach its full potential.

Currently I work at a well known Level 1 Trauma Center in their Psychiatric Emergency Program assisting in the development of a new expansion for behavioral health.  There I am helping train staff in de-escalation with hopes to avoid or come out of a crisis.  I also teach self defense and physical interventions if de-escalation was unsuccessful to help protect themselves and others.