Lexi Gunning
Denver
Summary
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from the University of Denver and over 4 years of experience serving individuals with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI). Extensive background in co-response, crisis intervention, corrections, pre-trial services, outpatient competency restoration, and outpatient therapy.
Clinical expertise includes suicide risk assessment, threat assessment and management with high acuity cases, crisis intervention and de-escalation, 27-65 evaluations, collaborative safety planning, and lethal means restriction. Proficient in evidence-based therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Behavioral Health Co-Responder - Targeted Violence Prevention Program
UCHealth
02.2023 - Current
- Works to prevent acts of mass and targeted violence through direct intervention with clients, community education, and community outreach
- Conducts behavioral threat assessments on high acuity clients
- Conducts suicide/violence risk assessments and evaluates for 27-65 MH criteria
- Collaborates with law enforcement partners in the Aurora Police Department, surrounding law enforcement jurisdictions, and other federal entities (USSS, FBI, DHS)
- Provides threat assessment specific case consultations to local organizations and federal entities
- Collaborates with TVP case manager and other organizations (schools, DHS, hospitals, families) to create individualized threat management plans
- Conducts case briefings to staff and police department commanding officers in tandem with law enforcement partner
- Provides program administration with grant management, presentations on the TVP program, and represents the TVP program in various settings
- Rides in patrol car and responds to 9-1-1 calls for service for crisis-response
- Documents in agency EHR and designated shared TVP database
Crisis Evaluator, PRN
AllHealth Network
06.2024 - Current
- Provides face to face interventions and assessment of current mental health status
- Provides support and triage for clients
- Provides short-term face to face interventions to help stabilize people in crisis and prevent hospitalization when possible
- Makes referrals for resources internally and externally
- Coordinates with appropriate partners to make sure the client gets the most appropriate level of care needed
- Provides walk-in interventions and assessments for clients, self-referred and transported by law enforcement
- Conducts mental status evaluations to determine what level of care is appropriate for people in distress
- Performs timely intakes and thorough assessments of clients needs in order to resolve immediate crisis
- Address trauma as reported by the client and ensures adequate time is spent with each client
- Creates working diagnosis using DSM-V
Mental Health Therapist, II
WellPower Behavioral Health Solutions Center
10.2023 - 02.2025
- Provide psychological evaluations/problem identification, crisis interventions, and individual and/or family therapy to people in crisis
- Assess and refer to appropriate higher levels of care
- Provide some case management and coordination services to consumers as needed
- Assist consumers with psychological development, social development, and rehabilitation
- Working with psychiatrists, nurses, and other professionals, coordinate medication/medicinal needs of consumers with medical sources
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical records consistent with Organization standards
- Initiate mental holds when clinically indicated
- Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing
Outpatient Therapist
Ellie Mental Health
10.2023 - 06.2024
- Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create, and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes according to company policy
- Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
- Prepare and submit individual documentation for each session per company guidelines and protocol
- Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed
Crisis Mental Health Clinician
Boulder County Jail
07.2022 - 02.2023
- Conducts intakes, evaluations, and/or assessments for referred inmates
- Assess and provide suicidal and/or homicidal intervention and management of high-risk inmates
- Provide plans and treatment to inmates in Special Management and inmates who are locked down due to mental health and/or behavioral concerns
- Coordinate or link inmates to psychiatric prescribers who require evaluation for medications or re-evaluation of current medications
- Provides mental health consultation to security and healthcare staff regarding inmate's behavior, safety concerns, or their mental health concerns
- Provides mental health crisis intervention for the entire facility
- Documents services and encounters appropriately and accurately according to facility and company polices and maintains required documentation throughout all encounters
- Communicates effectively with mental health, medical, and security staff as well as other entities involved with inmate's continuity of care
- Coordinates with attorneys, probation, and other professionals for continuity of care
Aurora Crisis Services Graduate Intern
Aurora Crisis Services Walk-In Center
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Evaluate emergency clients according to mental health center timelines for response
- Conducts triage assessments that avoid harm and re-traumatization
- Make clinically appropriate dispositions to the safest, least restrictive environment
- Prevent escalation of crises by linking clients rapidly to needed services as appropriate
- Demonstrate competence in evaluation and intervention in crisis situations
- Conduct individual, family, and group therapy sessions that employ evidence-based practices
- Collaborate with the Crisis Stabilization Unit staff
- Serve as a liaison with community agencies and referral sources regarding client's needs
Competency Restoration Educator
The Denver Forensic Institute for Research, Service, and Training (FIRST)
06.2021 - 06.2022
- Provide ongoing competency restoration to defendants charged with a crime and found incompetent to stand trial
- Provide psychoeducation (individual and group) as it pertains to restoration goals
- Provide symptom management as it pertains to restoration goals
- Conduct intake assessments of new clients referred for restoration
- Responsible for communicating with Colorado's Office of Behavioral Health (OBH)
- Provide OBH with monthly notes and progress reports/summaries
- Consult with any existing treatments team(s) of clients
Aurora Crisis Response Team Graduate Intern
Aurora Police Department
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Immediate crisis mitigation
- Care coordination between agencies
- Assisting individuals in crisis navigate the behavioral health system
- Connect individuals to a Crisis Walk-in-Center or Detox facilities
- Perform suicide/risk assessments
Boulder County Pre-Trial Supervision Graduate Intern
Boulder County Community Justice Services
10.2020 - 06.2021
- Perform intakes and assessments of pre-trial defendants and create supervision plans to mitigate danger, failure to appear, and recidivism risk
- Responsible for reiterating, reinforcing, and clarifying conditions of bond
- Collaborate with and make referrals to partner agencies
- Review, follow-up, and maintain supervision plans
- Collaborate and provide professional communications with system stakeholders in the 20th Judicial
- Prepare documents for and give testimony in Court
- Enter offender and court data into the computer system.
Education
Master of Arts - Forensic Psychology
University of Denver
Denver06-2022
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Lincoln05-2018
Skills
- Program design and implementation
- Program leadership
- Grant management and budget coordination
- Policy and procedure implementation and improvement
- Cross-system coordination
- Resource coordination
- Strategic planning
- Training and development
- Community engagement
- Attention to detail
Certification
Licensed Professional Counselor
8/2024 - 8/2025
LPC.0021118
Timeline
Crisis Evaluator, PRN
AllHealth Network
06.2024 - Current
Mental Health Therapist, II
WellPower Behavioral Health Solutions Center
10.2023 - 02.2025
Outpatient Therapist
Ellie Mental Health
10.2023 - 06.2024
Behavioral Health Co-Responder - Targeted Violence Prevention Program
UCHealth
02.2023 - Current
Crisis Mental Health Clinician
Boulder County Jail
07.2022 - 02.2023
Aurora Crisis Services Graduate Intern
Aurora Crisis Services Walk-In Center
01.2022 - 06.2022
Aurora Crisis Response Team Graduate Intern
Aurora Police Department
09.2021 - 12.2021
Competency Restoration Educator
The Denver Forensic Institute for Research, Service, and Training (FIRST)
06.2021 - 06.2022
Boulder County Pre-Trial Supervision Graduate Intern
Boulder County Community Justice Services
10.2020 - 06.2021
Master of Arts - Forensic Psychology
University of Denver
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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