Experience

Angelica has worked at numerous outpatient agencies since 1995 providing therapeutic services to adults, children, adolescents, and families. Her work experience includes:

Additional Work Experience:

StarVista
Clinician/Therapist
Provided individual, family, and group therapy to incarcerated youth with substance abuse problems and serious trauma. Provide diagnostic evaluations, assessments, crisis intervention, case management services, and develop treatment plans. Work under a team oriented approach collaborating with psychiatrists, probation, and other providers. Comply with Medi-Cal and AVATAR paperwork.

Edgewood
Clinician/Therapist
Provided individual and family therapy to emotionally disturbed youth with substance abuse problems and under probation. Provide family focused services in the context of strength based and wrap-around model in an outpatient treatment program. Work under a team oriented approach including consultation/collaboration with psychiatrists, probation, and other providers/agencies. Provide home visiting. Process intakes, clinical assessments, and develop treatment plans. Comply with Medi-Cal paperwork and case management. Provide crisis intervention and crisis line response.

Jewish Family and Children’s Services
Therapist
Provided individual and family therapy to emotionally disturbed and at risk children, youth, and adults. Provide problem-focused services in response to individual needs including CPS/foster homes, substance use, trauma and neglect. Developed treatment plans, processed intakes and assessments, provided case management, and complied with Medi-Cal paperwork.

Early Childhood Mental Health Program
Child/Parent Therapist
Provide individual, child/parent therapy and home visiting services to young children, 0 to five years old, who are emotionally disturbed and at risk. Process initial intakes; develop treatment plans; comply with Medi-Cal paperwork; provide play therapy, collateral/individual therapy sessions with parents and psycho-educational support to parents, case management, and wraparound services.

The Children’s Place
Trainee
Provide individual and group therapy to children. Provide educational and support groups for families with substance abuse problems. Develop treatment plans, clinical assessments, initial intakes, and progress notes.

Fray Bernardino Psychiatric Hospital
Clinical interviews, psychometric evaluation tests, psychological evaluations to patients, diagnoses and possible treatments, group therapies with patients and families, cognitive rehabilitation, family orientation, conferences and workshops: Chemical dependency, abuse, sexuality, drug abuse, pharmacology.

National Institute of Perinatology
Research Assistant on lead and its negative effects over Children’s Development.
Application and evaluation of Psychometric tests to children.

Federico Gomez Hospital
Family therapy assistant, provide psychological support to patients, and families with chronic illnesses.

Juan de la Barrera High School
Group Counselor

Erasto Valle Alcaraz School
Detecting learning disabilities in children and create a special program for them that will help them to improve their development and achievement.