Clinical Social Worker
A social worker who holds a master's or doctoral degree in social work from an accredited school of social work in addition to at least two years of post-master's supervised experience in a clinical setting. The social worker must be licensed, certified, or registered at the clinical level in the jurisdiction of practice. A clinical social worker provides direct services, including interventions focused on interpersonal interactions, intrapsychic dynamics, and life management issues. Clinical social work services are based on bio-psychosocial perspectives. Services consist of assessment, diagnosis, treatment (including psychotherapy and counseling), client-centered advocacy, consultation, evaluation, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, or behavioral disturbances.
Clinical Social Workers in Loma Linda, CA
Dance Therapist
Ms. Karin Pleasant is a Dance Therapist in Loma Linda, CA
with special training and skill in the use of movement and dance to promote social, cognitive, and physical healing.
As a Dance Therapist, Karin Pleasant, LCSW performs
individual and group therapy sessions. Dance Therapy is
psychotherapy that applies dance and movement to promote mental, emotional, physical health, and social integration. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Dance Therapists include low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, autism, trauma, and Alzheimer's disease.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Dance Therapists
include assessments, dance instruction, and interventions during therapy sessions like mirroring and movement metaphors.
The dance therapist, sometimes called a movement therapist, focuses on rhythmic body movements as a medium of physical and psychological change. Dance therapy is practiced more often with mental health patients than with physically disabled patients. A master's degree is required by the American Dance Therapy Association to award the credentials Dance Therapist Registered (DTR).
Dance Therapists in Loma Linda, CA