Credentials

Laurel has provided extensive clinical social work services to individuals, couples, families, and groups.  She has served in leadership and supervisory roles and has provided CEU training workshops, grand round presentations and community educational programming in many settings throughout the 30 year span of her flourishing career. 

Career Highlights

Clinical Private Practice Owner

 

Clinical Supervision Practice

 

Inpatient  Addiction Therapist, Maplegrove, HFHS

 

Homevisiting Geriatric Practice

 

Group Psychotherapy Private Practice

 

Dual Diagnosis Residential Crisis Therapist

 

Outpatient Group Practice, Addiction Focus

 

Senior Preventive Services Social Worker

 

Youth Homeless Shelter Social Worker

                                               

Geriatric Day Treatment Case Manager

 

Post Graduate Study

Behavioral Tech, LLC, A Linehan Institute Training Company, Seattle, WA (Via Detroit, MI).  Ten-Day Workshop: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training, Parts 1 & 2  July 2017,  February 2018 Three-Day Workshop: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills and Strategies  February 2017

 

Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC)  Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals (MCBAP) IC&RC  Exam Passed

 

US Army; Bring Them The Rest Of The Way Home Military Cultural Competence: PTSD Then and Now, There and Here; The Impact of Deployment and Combat Stress on Families and Children, Part I and II; Exams Passed 

 

Fundamentals of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (FAODP), Oakland County Health Division, Office of Substance Abuse Services, Exam Passed 

 

Certified Advanced Addictions Counselor (CAAC) Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals; Earned 

 

Advanced Clinical Social Work Examination Passed Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) 

 

The Martha K. Selig Ed. Institute of the JBFCS/Center for the Advancement of Group Studies, NYC  Focused Interactive Time Limited Group Module, 9-Week Course 

 

The Martha K. Selig Educational Institute of the JBFCS, Advanced Training Program, NYC Family Therapy Certificate, 2 Years, Weekly Full Day Courses/Supervision/ Grand Rounds

     

Columbia University Graduate School of Social Work, NYC 

Field Instruction and Clinical Supervision Certificate; Year-Long Weekly Seminar

 

Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, In-Service Training Program, NYC--3 years of Weekly Clinical Seminars 

 

Intermediate Social Work Examination Passed American Association of State Social Work Boards (AASSWB) 1990

 

Education

Yeshiva University, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, NYC,  MSW,  1990

 

University of California, Santa Barbara, BA, Psychology 1987

 

University of Haifa and Hebrew University, Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel;  Education Abroad Program, University of California; Full year coursework: Hebrew Ulpan/Jewish Studies 1985 to 1986

 

Academia

American Psychiatric Association. 2013. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition DSM-5;  Cited as a Collaborating Investigator on Page 915; 2013

 

American Psychiatric Association; DSM-5 Field Trials in Routine Clinical Practice Settings, Collaborating Investigator 2011 to 2012

 

Columbia University Graduate School of Social Work; NYC; Lecturer  1993 to 1997