Geraldine Plaisir - Therapist, LMFT, Renewed Hope Family Services

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Work Background

Delaware Valley UniversityAdjunct Professor of Psychology

Jan. 2025

Renewed Hope Family ServicesLicensed Marriage And Family Therapist

Apr. 2023Newtown, Pennsylvania, United States• Provide personalized therapy and treatment plans to individuals, couples and families across the lifespan • Assist clients in recognizing their own emotions and developing healthier patterns in their relationships or behaviors • Empathize with clients who possess a range of backgrounds and experiences, such as maternal/postpartum challenges and managing career/workplace burnout • Complete psycho-social assessments, treatment plans and treatment plan updates, as well as discharge plans within established period

Family Therapy and Consultation Services/United Family ServicesMobile Therapist and Clinical Supervisor

Jan. 2023 - Apr. 2023Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States• Provide intensive therapeutic services consisting of individual therapy and parents or caregivers therapy. • Develop and revise the Individualized Treatment Plan. • Assist with crisis stabilization and with addressing problems the child, youth or young adult has • encountered. • Assure ongoing communication and collaboration occurs among all treatment team members and other • necessary staff, as well as parents or caregivers and other providers as appropriate to provide continuity of • care. • Executes timely documentation of client information including treatment plans, progress notes, etc. • Establishes a relationship of trust and respect with staff, clients, and parents. • • Participate in required evidence-based training. • Complete other tasks as requested by the management team.

Montgomery County Community CollegeAdjunct Professor of Psychology

Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2024• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records. • Prepare course materials such as syllabi, PowerPoint presentations, homework assignments, papers and handouts. • Prepare and deliver lectures/discussions and activities to undergraduate students on topics such as personality psychology, positive psychology, abnormal psychology and cognitive processes. • Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

Malvern Community Health ServicesOutpatient Therapist

Aug. 2019 - Jan. 2021Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States• Provide evidence-based therapy services to children, adults, couples and families • Assesses clients' needs and developed appropriate individual treatment plans • Work collaboratively with professionals from multiple disciplines to ensure clients' needs were being met. • Assign diagnoses, identify and assess client and family needs, and ensure that the necessary services are provided. • Develop and maintains electronic clinical records such as treatment plans, progress notes, and termination summaries according to HRDI standards. • Implements crisis counseling when necessary and provided community resource referrals. • Perform alcohol and drug use assessments for clients and counseled or referred appropriately. • Utilize community resources for outreach and advocacy purposes.

Recovery Centers of AmericaFamily Therapist

Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2019Devon, PA • Evaluated patients mental and physical health, addiction, or problem behavior and assess their readiness for treatment. • Assisted patients develop treatment goals and plans. • Reviewed and recommended treatment options with clients and their families. • Helped patients develop skills and behaviors necessary to recover from their addiction or modify their behavior. • Worked with patient and family to identify behaviors or situations that interfere with their recovery. • Educated families about addiction or behavior disorders and helped them develop strategies to cope with those problems. • Facilitated educational seminars on addiction to patients and their respective families. • Facilitated weekly therapeutic group activities. • Referred patients to other resources and services, such as job placement services, recovery housing options and local support groups • Conducted outreach programs to help people identify the signs of addiction and other destructive behavior, as well as steps to take to avoid such behavior.

MCC Warwick Family ServicesFamily Based Therapist

May. 2017 - Jan. 2018Bensalem, PA• Provide initial and on-going comprehensive assessments of identified families and youth • Provide intensive individual, family, and group therapy with identified families using the ecosystemic structural family therapy model • Work collaboratively with assigned mental health worker team member to provide comprehensive services and linkages • Consult with psychiatrist on a regular basis and attend psychiatric appointments with the youth and family • Collaborate on a regular basis with all systems involved with the youth and family • Provide on going role modeling and skill building to families • Provide case management services as needed • Attend and participate in required ecosystemic family therapy trainings in addition to required state and local trainings • Complete all documentation in a timely, comprehensive and legible manner

Family Therapy and Consultation ServicesFamily Therapist Intern

Nov. 2015 - Jun. 2017Woodbury, NJ• Teach children and families life and social skills • Collaborate with therapist to assess and establish goals and treatment plan for children and families • Implement Therapist/BA formulated interventions that alleviate maladaptive behaviors in presenting children • Attend weekly and monthly student group interventions • Document all clinical phone and face-to-face encounters using a DAP note format regarding sessions with children and families. • Submit documentation for review at corresponding supervisions

CORA ServicesTruancy Case Manager

May. 2015 - May. 2017Greater Philadelphia Area• Conduct initial/ongoing in-home family assessments • Provide families with language interpretation services when needed • Develop a Family Development Plan (FDP) for each family • Facilitate the development of an action plan in partnership with the family • Initiate timely and appropriate interventions as needed on behalf of the youth/families • Refer family focused and community based family support services • Advocate for families in regional/family court • Prepare appropriate reports as requested • Attend all internal agency wide and external meetings as relevant to the program

Turning Points for ChildrenChild Welfare Case Manager

Nov. 2014 - May. 2015Philadelphia, PA • Performs a variety of counseling, referral, placement and/or adoptive services for assigned cases within the CUA system • Maintains a caseload of ten (10) families at one time, or such other number as they may be assigned by the CUA Case Management Supervisor or CUA Case Management Director • Conducts interviews with individuals requiring agency services including requests for temporary shelter, placement of children or unusual and difficult social service cases; make home visits to families of emotionally disturbed and/or problem children; elicits data to ascertain nature and extent of complaint, severity of problems, potential danger to individual, and/or facts and circumstances relevant to requests; reviews case record for client's and family's profile • Develops service plan to provide a variety of social services referrals and to define goals and objectives; determines need for social, behavioral, medical and/or psychological services; provides individual or family counseling as needed • Initiates court action when appropriate and prepares necessary work • Attends periodic staff and personal conferences; confers with superior on difficult problems; prepares reports and correspondence; keeps records of all assigned cases. • Attends periodic staff and personal conferences; confers with superior on difficult problems; prepares reports and correspondence; keeps records of all assigned cases.