Tatiana Turo-Handy, PsyD

• Facilitated support groups for clients to discuss issues related to mental health.
• Provide supervision of Peer Specialist and Mental Health Facilitators.
• Conduct screening phone calls for participants and assist with community reach and engagement and program promotion and development.
• Built partnerships with community agencies and service providers to remove access gaps.

• Working in the interdisciplinary context of primary care as a clinical health psychologist
• Providing consultation to attending and resident physicians, warm-hand-offs, scheduled follow-up visits, brief assessments, crisis intervention and assistance with community mental health resources
• Providing health behavior change interventions to patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, chronic pain and heart disease
• Provide brief intervention for patients experiencing perinatal mood disorders and work collaboratively with physicians and psychiatrist in the treatment of these patients

Under this role I have also provided:

Clinical Supervision and Training Seminars for the Integrated Behavioral Health and Internship Program. August 2018 - Present

• Provided clinical supervision to predoctoral level externs, interns and post-doctoral fellows.
• Participated in interview process for trainees.
• Coordinate and Facilitate Cultural Diversity Didactics.

Behavioral Health Instructor for the General Internal Medicine Primary Care Track Training Department. November 2019 - Present

• Provide Motivational Interviewing feedback and skills to medical residents.
• Review video sessions of medical visit with medical residents, promoting collaborative communication and skills that improve the patient experience and health outcomes.
• Provide reflective discussion of challenging scenarios.
• Discuss skills and strategies that promote provider satisfaction and decrease provider burnout.
• Collaborate and participate in meetings with Primary Care Track attendings.

• Fellowship consists of working in the fully integrated context of primary care as a behavioral health provider
• Provide routine preventive screenings, consultation to medical providers, behavioral management of chronic illness, crisis intervention and assistance with community mental health resources
• Provide bilingual (English and Spanish) individual short-term psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults
• Provide psychological testing for children and adults
• Facilitate group discussion at shared medical appointment groups for obstetric and well child care visits
• Document in same electronic record as medical providers
• Serve predominately low-income populations
• Provide individual supervision to a doctoral level practicum student

• Provided inpatient treatment for co-occurring disorders and outpatient therapy and assessment to Healthcare Professionals.
• Facilitated psychoeducational and process groups focused on skills building.
• Co-facilitated a specialty group for women suffering from addiction and eating disorders, and a process group for the LGBTQ population.
• Provided short-term individual psychotherapy in English and Spanish to adults, completed diagnostic assessments of clients in detoxification to ensure patient’s stability to transfer to recovery unit.
• Served as a mental health consultant, attended morning huddles and staffing meetings with multidisciplinary team comprised of spiritual care, wellness, chemical dependency counselor, nurses, housekeeping staff, and unit supervisor to coordinate care plans and make recommendations regarding continuity of care.
• Provided group supervision to Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction students, discussed case conceptualization and motivational interviewing skills.
• Participated as a guest lecturer for a psychological assessment course and guest speaker for a multicultural class discussing the Latino Population.

• Coordinated patient admissions and provided rapid response to patient referrals from community referral sources at this private behavioral health hospital specializing in inpatient services for mental health holds and detoxification
• Completed initial assessments and coordinated patient needs upon admission with a multidisciplinary team of nurses, hospital technicians and psychiatrists

• Provided bilingual individual and group psychotherapy at this facility that provides care those struggling with acute and chronic mental illness, homelessness and unstable housing
• Co-facilitated a psychoeducational and support group for Spanish-Speaking adults and adults struggling with chemical dependency
• Administered and interpreted psychological assessments, completed patient intakes, developed transfer summaries and created treatment plans

• Responsibilities included conducting intake assessments, providing bilingual individual psychotherapy to children and adults
• Administered and interpreted psychodiagnostic, vocational rehabilitation, and psychoeducational assessments
• Provided parenting skills training to families with children presenting behavioral problems and testing feedback sessions to parents and school officials

• Administered and interpreted neuropsychological assessments for children and adults
• Administered psychological evaluations for Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Immigration and Naturalization Services

• Provided bilingual individual and group psychotherapy to male and female residential clients with co-occurring disorders
• Administered and interpreted personality inventories

• Completed intake assessments with individuals, couples, and children seeking therapeutic services
• Provided long-term psychotherapy to a caseload of 3 to 4 clients as well as short-term psychotherapy to a caseload of 4 to 5 clients

• Facilitated group sessions on topics related to activities of daily living using behavior modeling for adult clients suffering from mental and physical disabilities
• Assisted in crisis management, maintained clinical records and completed weekly and monthly progress reports