BARRY T. LEVY
(562) 673-1417 barrytlevymft@hotmail.com
A counselor and educator with experience in individual counseling and therapy, marriage and family therapy, and group psychotherapy, and classes relating to self-direction, personal growth and career decision-making. Skilled in the use of various treatment modalities, including cognitive and rational behavior therapy and behavior modification, psychodrama, hypnosis, bioenergetics and dynamic techniques.
Wide experience in various populations including
in-patient and out-patient psychiatric populations, alcohol and substance
abusers, pain management clients, trauma survivors, personality disorders,
prison populations, in ethnic and racial minority groups, and in the general
population. Forensic therapy experience
with adults and adolescents with the Federal, State and
Experienced in vocational and educational counseling and guidance with a diverse age, ethnic and cultural population, including a refugee and limited English-speaking population, in vocational rehabilitation counseling with injured workers, a developmentally challenged population, a psychiatric population, probation, parole and mental health population, California Department of Rehabilitation clients and in vocational, educational and career development and job counseling, including classes in interviewing, resume writing and other aspects of job search.
COMPETENCIES
Psychotherapy: Private practice as a marriage, family therapist, specializing in individual and group psychotherapy. Highly experienced in therapy regarding the direct expression of feelings, such as hurt and anger, and in offender behavior, including sexual offenders. Skilled in the use of poetry, bioenergetics, hypnosis and psychodrama in the release of blocked affect due to trauma, and in the use of phototherapy, systems theory, behavior modification, and in dynamic principles. Employee Assistance Program counselor providing short-term, goal oriented therapy. Extensive experience in psychiatric settings with hospitalized adults, adolescents and children, and in out-patient settings, treating substance abusers, abused adults and children, multiple personality disorder patients, crime victims, persons with personality disorders, and the general population. Served as principal psychodramatist and psychodrama internship supervisor in a narcotics treatment program in a federal prison, the California Youth Authority's psychotic treatment program and in various hospital settings. Experienced in family conflict resolution and children's behavioral issues, including parenting issues, issues related to divorce and custody conflict and the treatment of trauma in children and adults. Extensive experience in treating stress reactions in children, adults and seniors. Proficient in a wide range of stress management techniques and their application to various populations including law enforcement personnel and arthritis patients.
Career, Educational, Vocational and Rehabilitation Counseling: Experience at the community college level and in private practice as a vocational counselor, providing vocational and educational counseling and guidance to a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural adult student population including the chronically unemployed, and particularly the emotionally and physically disabled. Also skilled in counseling related to the employment process, including resume writing, job interviewing, and job seeking skills. Worked in CETA, JTPA and other programs as counselor and program developer. Previously GATB certified by Department of Labor, and skilled in JEVS, VITAS, VALPAR work sample testing. Skilled in the administration and interpretation of standard paper and pencil vocational interest, aptitude and values tests, and in vocational and educational programs. Counseled in clerical, nursing, police and fire science, computer programming and repair, auto mechanics, environmental sciences, security technology, and other vocational programs, including English as a second language students.
Teaching and Training Programs: Developed and taught college and university level courses in family therapy, legal and ethical considerations in counseling, dealing with shyness in children, parenting techniques, crisis intervention for professionals, psychodrama, industrial role training,
and interpersonal skills, a cognitive approach to decision making, visualization skills, sales motivation, and in classes related to the family, including parenting, divorce and custody conflict resolution,
couples communication, substance abuse, and a wide range of classes pertaining to psychiatric symptoms, such has depression, anxiety, grief and loss, and to domestic violence, and stress management for law enforcement personnel, arthritis patients and the general population, and in organizational performance analysis: a cognitive/behavioral approach. Also developed and taught self-esteem, assertiveness training and stress management as a semester long course. Taught self-esteem and assertiveness training to children in youth program, as well as instructor in vocational preparation classes for youth.
Training Materials
Development: Developed training programs for parenting education. Produced
training manuals for multi-level computer sales companies and for a
telecommunications company, including material on how to recruit and train a
sales force, and in sales psychology.
Designed, wrote and recorded training tapes on organizational building
for multi-level companies. Developed
training materials for a vocational out-placement program for GTE, the Orange
County Rapid Transit District, and a training and motivation program for the
State of
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology with an Emphasis in
Psychotherapy in progress from 1986 to 1989 (50 units), The California Graduate
Institute of Psychology,
Master of Arts in Applied Behavioral Sciences,
Bachelor of Science in Biology,
Associate of Science with a major in Biology, El Camino
College,
Additional graduate study in psychology, educational psychology and instructional media at other institutions.
CERTIFICATES
Registered Addiction Specialist, Register of Addiction Specialists
Diplomate of the Board,
Clinically Certified Forensic Counselor (Adult and Adolescent)
Clinically Certified Sexual Offender Treatment Provider,
Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy: Certified by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
Diplomate: Academy of Managed Care Providers
Role Training Director, The
Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (Diplomate), National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists
Trauma Response Certificate,
TRAINING
Abel Sexual Interest Inventory, Abel Institute,
Treating Adult Sex Offenders in the Community,
Treating Adolescent Sex Offenders in Community Settings,
Trauma Response,
Psychodrama, Sociometry and Socioanalysis, The California Institute of Socioanalysis, Long Beach, CA, under Martin R. Haskell, Ph.D. (criminologist, psychologist and author)
Poetry Therapy, The Poetry Therapy Institute,
Hypnosis, Southwestern
MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Present and Former
Alpha Kappa Delta: Sociology Honor Society
American Association for Counseling and Development
American Association of Mental Health Counselors
American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama
American Association for Poetry Therapy
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
Board of Directors, Goodwill Industries of
Board of Directors, Chemical People Task Forces of Long Beach, CA (a youth oriented drug and alcohol education program)
California Coalition on Sexual Offending (also Board of Directors, and South LA County Chapter Chairperson)
Employment and Training Association of
Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association
International Group Psychotherapy Association
National Association of Forensic Counselors
National Major Gang Task Force
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Society of Technical Writers and Publishers
Biographized in:
Who's Who in
Who's Who Among Human Service Professionals,
National Register Millennium Edition of Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Counselor
Rancho Santiago Community College
District, Assessment and
Personal, vocational and educational counselor, with responsibility for testing
and placement of clients referred from the Department of Rehabilitation, Mental Health, Probation, Parole and the general population. Included English as a second language students, nursing, police, fire science, auto mechanic, computer science, electronics and other majors
North Orange County Community
College District,
Personal, vocational and educational counselor, with responsibility for testing, test interpretation and placement of adult reentry clients
Associated Rehabilitation
Counselors,
Supervisor and vocational rehabilitation counselor with adults who were injured on the job. Provided vocational and educational counseling and referral.
Instructor
The
Groups Project,
Executive Director, Program Designer and Instructor for educational programs including assisting in court approved programs for anger management, parenting, divorce and custody conflict resolution, parenting, chemical dependency and other programs relating to family, vocational and mental health areas, and development of lists of and referral to community agencies.
Stress management and assertiveness training for arthritis patients.
Law and Ethics for Marriage and Family Therapists in the Masters in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling Program
Stress management for Law Enforcement personnel under POST
Goal setting, time management, interpersonal communications
Family therapy classes (in Masters program)
Coastline Community College District, Huntington Beach, CA, 1977-78
Sociometry, goal setting, time management
Dealing with difficult people on the job, goal setting, time management, decision
making, motivation
North Orange County Community College District, 1984 to 1996
Goal setting, dealing with difficult people, decision making, time management, addictions and codependency, depression, anxiety and phobias, couples
communication, anger management, visualization, career planning, job interviewing, how to find a job, career networking, resume writing, stress management, assertion training, building self esteem, a motivation program for the State of California Conservation Corps, job placement for Pacific Bell, job placement for the Orange County Rapid Transit District, and summer youth employment programs.
Rancho
Santiago Community College District,
Crisis intervention for professionals, goal setting, interviewing for a job, career planning, motivation, interpersonal communication, developing a positive attitude,
dealing with shyness in children. Also vocational programs for youth and adults.
Treatment of Eating Disorders, Treatment of Personality Disorders, in the American Society of Eating Disorder Professionals' Summer Institute
The
California Institute of Socioanalysis,
Decision-making
Psychotherapist
Private Practice:
Outpatient psychotherapy, 1979 to present, Psychotherapy in my professional office including the treatment of general psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, family issues, stress and PTSD, eating disorders, pain management, various federal, state and county offenders, including adult and adolescent sexual offenders. Extensive court testimony in family court and children’s court. Anger management classes, chemical dependency and parenting classes provided for court referrals.
As part of my practice, I worked for the following as an independent contractor at their facilities
1998- 2008 Therapist, Trinity Children and Family Services: individual, group and family therapy with adolescent offenders
2005-present Therapist, Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, Inc. Therapy with sexual offenders on probation or parole
2002-present Therapist, Southern California Neurodiagnostic Center. Therapist with sexual offenders on probation
2008-present Therapist, Southern California Mental Health Associates. Therapist with workers compensation claimants, including pain management clients
2000-2004 Therapist, DTR, Therapist with Federal Probation clients
In-patient psychotherapy, 1984 to 1994
Hospital Affiliations: Previous (Currently no longer doing hospital work)
Charter
Behavioral Health Systems of
Group Therapy:
Private Practice: Treatment of sexual offenders (Adult and adolescent) 1998 to present
Charter
Adult, adolescent, children and Women's Program psychodrama groups, adolescent special topics (cognitive) groups
Psychodrama with adults
Adult and geriatric groups
Expressive therapy with adults, children, adolescents, men's groups
Expressive therapy
Psychodrama with psychotic youths
Federal
Corrections Institute, Narcotic Addict Program,
Psychodrama with narcotics addicts and drug dealers
California
Institute of Socioanalysis,
Psychodrama and sociometry with various populations, including marathon therapy groups with various populations including substance abusers and offenders.
Administrator:
Executive
Director, The Community Resource Council,
Partner, Cone-Levy Behavioral Systems, Long Beach, CA, 1980-1989.
Coordinator,
The
PRESENTATIONS
“I’m stressed as hell and I cant take it anymore:
Stress and Burnout in Forensic Counseling” the National Association of
Forensic Counselors national conference, 2007
Adolescent Sexual Offender Treatment also Risk Assessment, LA County Parole, Bakersfield Parole, 2005
Treating abused children using play therapy and other methods presented at the conferences of both the California Coalition on Sexual Offending, 2005, and the National Association of Forensic Counselors, 2005
Developing Empathy in Adult and Adolescent Sexual Offenders Using Psychodrama and Other Action Methods, presented at the conferences of both the California Coalition on Sexual Offending, 2004, and the National Association of Forensic Counselors, 2004
The demonization of John Doe, National Association of Forensic Counselors, 2003
Psychodrama, Human Potential in Action Conference, 1976
Role Training as a Preparation for a Job,
Psychodrama in an Educational Setting, Also Innovations
in Vocational Assessment, Employment and Training Association of
Men's Issues,
PUBLICATIONS
Ø Field Reviewer, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, “The Use of Groups in Substance Abuse Treatment” 2001
Ø Success in Life Seminars, Copyright 1995.
Ø The Rules. Copyright 1990. A series of rules to be followed by persons (usually children who are abused) in therapy. Also a coloring book and story book, How the Rules Were Made, Copyright 2005, available at www.lulu.com
Ø Competence in Psychotherapeutic Specialization. Psyche, 1987.
Ø General Model Of Organizational Performance Analysis. Copyright 1980 with W. Cone
Ø Stress = Money Loss. Copyright 1980 with W. Cone.
Ø General Planning Sheet. Copyright 1980 with W. Cone.
Military
Honorable
Discharge, US Army, 1966-1969 including