Additional Training
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.
Credentials
Master of Social Work degree
Master of Arts degree
Michigan Licensed Master's Social Worker
Diplomate in Clinical Social Work (National Association of Social Workers)
Thalia was recognized as the 2014 Michigan Social Worker of the Year by the state chapter of The National Association of Social Workers. Michigan NASW has over 6000 members
