Alina W

Graduate student

United States

About

Experience

  • Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc. (3 yrs 8 mos)
    • Service Coordinator and Dual Recovery Specialist
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Recovery Coach and Recreation Coordinator
      Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

      - Monitor and document clientele with co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges via one-on-one check-ins and daily progress notes. - Encourage the client's personal development and individual goals by emphasizing the maintenance of daily living skills, social/professional integration skills, healthy coping mechanisms, and recreational therapy. - Oversee medication pass for each client, ensuring medication adherence and utilizing proper documentation to track daily medications and enrolled substances. - Collaborate with other health professionals to manage client appointments, prescriptions, and refills. - Monitor client vitals, including blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and oxygen levels. - Provide continued stabilization, dual recovery, and medication education, and assist in crisis interventions.

    • Mental Health Counselor
      Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Retail Manager at Vans, a VF Company
    Oct 2014 - Apr 2023 · 8 yrs 7 mos

    - Mentor, coach, and train the sales team to enhance performance, advance skills, and personal development through product knowledge, communication, selling behaviors, and merchandising. - Cultivate and maintain customer engagement through interpersonal interactions while delegating and prioritizing necessary store tasks in a fast-paced environment. - Supervise and provide direct feedback to improve and motivate the sales team to increase business and personal goals.

  • Teaching Assistant at San Diego State University
    Aug 2021 - May 2022 · 10 mos

    - Collaborated with colleagues on lectures, assignments, exam questions, due dates, and syllabi. - Directed and demonstrated in-class activities of counseling and therapy techniques to 154 students and assessed their enactment. - Provided feedback and guidance on assignments such as intake reports, assessments, case conceptualization, and treatment planning. - Coordinated office hours to tutor, advise students, reinforce learning concepts, and address any concerns and inquiries about grading and content.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at CODA, Inc
    Jan 2021 - Nov 2021 · 11 mos

    - Investigated the mortality, relapse rate, and psychiatric and medical outcomes in older adults with long-term substance use on medicated assisted therapy by conducting a systematic review. - Facilitated communication with supervisors and research associates regarding weekly meetings, assignments, deadlines, questions, and clarification. - Formulated and defined a research question and created a hypothesis that included the intervention, population, and condition. - Assigned the examination of 459 existing articles, extracted relevant and applicable data from the included studies from full-text articles provided by five databases, and interpreted results. - Designated the writing of each section and presented the methods section and findings to supervisors and colleagues.