Thalia's Education and Credentials

Master of Social Work
Grand Valley State University, 1988, 
 3.96/4.0 grade point average

Master of Arts
Michigan State University, 1973, in Art History, 3.97/4.0 grade point average.  (Some overlap with undergraduate program due to dual enrollment.)

Bachelor of Arts
Michigan State University, 1973, Art History major, summa cum laude

Workshops, Trainings, Conferences
Additional post-graduate educational experiences in adults' and children's treatment totaling hundreds of hours

Children's Treatment 

Thalia has completed formal training in children's and adolescents' issues with hundreds of contact hours beyond her degrees .  
Topics include:
mood disorders, family violence, toddlers and preschoolers, divorce, behavior modification, adolescent substance abuse, sexually transmitted disease, trauma, art therapy, family reunification, children who molest, attention deficit disorder, sexual abuse, physical and  emotional abuse and neglect, oppositional behavior, anger, anxiety, play therapy (including directive, nondirective, cognitive behavioral, developmentally sensitive, sand tray and other methods) and many more.

Adults' Treatment 

Thalia has completed formal training in adults' issues with hundreds of contact hours beyond her degrees, including these:
family therapy, brief and solution oriented therapy, adult attention deficit disorder, depression, survivor of childhood abuse, adult child of alcoholic family system, domestic violence, codependency, art therapy, integrative therapy, premarital, marital/couple counseling, strategic therapy, cognitive behavioral treatment, anxiety disorders, divorce and many, many others.

Substance Abuse Treatment 

• substance abuse specific classwork: 173 contact hours
• supervised (on the job) training hours: 272
• successful completion of the International Certification Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse exam (1996)
• Successful completion of the Specific Populations exam (1995)
• Hours of providing supervised treatment to substance abuse clients: 2505 when Thalia stopped counting in 1997