Personal Profile
¨  Artistic Chaplain and Spiritual Leader with a real passion for facilitating growth and healing
¨  Ordination in the PCUSA, PIF # 100021881.2
¨  An Artist with a Well-Organized Detail-Oriented Work Ethic

Education
University of the Ozarks – Clarksville, AR 
BS in Political Science (Public Admin), December 2008 

Columbia Theological Seminary – Decatur, GA 
Master of Divinity, May 12, 2012 

Ministry Experience and Skills 

Skilled Pastoral Caregiver

  • Utilizes pastoral skills such as empathy, respect, active listing, use of confidentiality, warmth and genuineness, while paying attention to both content and feelings being conveyed, and acknowledging both. 

  • Adapting techniques of presence in patient homes to reflect feelings, encourage verbalization and exploration of experience, and provide questions for further refection. 

  • Utilizing different forms of prayer and meditation in order to support people where ever they are on the journey.   

  • Able to communicate in times of crisis and anxiety in a clam and collected manor to help guide with a non-anxious presence. 

  •  Able to provide pastoral presence and life affirming encounters while interacting with patients and families. 

  • Provides Spiritual and Emotional support to people of differing faith community’s and cultures. 

Creating Plan of Care 

  • Well versed in the medicare/ Hospice legal requirements for care planning and patient support.

  • Using the process of spiritual assessment, to assess needs of the individuals and there community while creating a plan of care to help guide the pastoral encounters.  

  • Versed in spiritual and emotional end of life challenges for patients and families. Able to utilized clinical language and interventions to serve a wide variety of needs. 

  • Guided by the the patient and families goals for care, helping to empower the person’s own agenda and make it central. Helping to move the patient towards action leading to outcomes that they choose and value. 

  • Working with team members to be a patient advocate in formation of advance care planning 

Unique Pastoral Interventions 

  • Utilizes expressive art therapy techniques, which can provide families with a new perspective and provide therapeutic understanding of dying process, feelings, and or personal history. 

  • Encourages the use of tools such as, use of storytelling, legacy creation, and writing of ethical wills. 

  • To Equip families and patients with information to demystify dying process and to create a positive outcome while bringing a sense of peace and hope.

  • Effectively use music, mediation, guided imagery, breath prayer, readings, art, poetry, and creativity to help individuals to illuminate their experience. 

Bereavement Support

  • Trained facilitator in American Cancer Society “Life after Loss” grief support group.

  • Well Versed in the Legal/ Medicare Requerments for Berevment Care.

  • Trained in Children and teen grief, through the Children’s Bereavement Center of San Antonio.

  • Genuine empathy for grievers and loved ones who are suffering loss. 

  • Able to run individual and group grief sessions 

  • Well versed in grief experience, and able to use that knowledge to help normalize the experience of loss and create a sense of safety for the griever. 

  • Conducted memorial and burial service with diverse community and faith backgrounds. 

Other Activities
¨  Trained  as a facilitator for the American Cancer Society ‘Life After Loss’ program
¨  Trained in pastoral care to Veterans in the “Spiritual wounds of War” through VA 
¨  Trained in children’s bereavement and grief from the Children’s Bereavement Center of SA
¨  Teacher of art and spirituality classes 
¨  Vice President of student governing body at Columbia Theological Seminary 2011-2012
¨  US Patent Holder, Medical Device 
¨  CPR Certified
¨  Completed 4 units of CPE 

Work experience: 

2013 Oct- Present. AseraCare Hospice  Spiritual and Bereavement Care Coordinator, Green Bay and Wausau Wisconsin.

2012Sep – Aug2013. VITAS Innovative Hospice  CPE Chaplain, Home Team. San Antiono, TX 
2012 May- Aug2012 Presbyterian Mo Ranch Assembly Chaplain of Summer Staff and Camp. Hunt, TX 
2011- Summer. Cedarkirk Camp and Conference Center Staff Chaplain. Lithia,FL 
2009-2012 Center for Life Long Learning and Spiritual Formation Course Facilitator, Teacher, and Host. Decatur, GA  

References 
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