Kennon Alderman
727-439-1442
727-560-3201
| | Supports and services by a Specialized Adoption Trainer to assure successful transition to adoption. Completed Parent Mentor for adoptive parents through developing relationships with families in the adoptive process, sharing own adoptive experiences, and being an available resource. Certified through The Sylvia Thomas Center.
Adoptive Parent- 12 years, ESE/EBD Educator, Masters Degree:Cross Categorical Special Education, Former Substance Abuse Counselor, Former Case Manager MATS Sexual Offender Treatment Program. Former Supervisor/Program coordinator COBYS group home for dependent/delinquent teenage boys |
Maria Aresco
727-599-6338
| No | Goal-directed, face-to-face psychotherapeutic interventions provided to the family with the participant present. May be provided in home or community. |
Susan Bailey
813-500-2537 | | Supports and services by a Specialized Adoption Trainer to assure successful transition to adoption. |
Janet L. Bannister
Lighthouse Counseling Services Inc.
813-748-2239
lighthousecounselingsvc.com
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John W. Battle, Jr.
813-766-3133
| No | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Bachelor's degree or appropriate certification. Registered Mental Health Intern with over 15 years of experience as a Mentor working with youth ages from 1-18. Emphasis: empower youth to make positive life choices and enable them to maximize their potential as well as assist the youth to develop and reach positive academic, career, and personal goals. Certified as an Adoption Trainer to assure successful transition to adoption homes and focus on the parent's need for instructional and skill development to maintain or enhance their parental functioning. |
April Befort
813-325-8164
| | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Training Certification in Adoption Competency, Cultural Competency, Bachelors in Social Work, Moderate American Sign Language Skills, 13 years experience with Developmental / Mental Illness. Working towards Masters in Social Work |
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Terra Bone, LCSW
813-569-9372
| | Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. Licensed since 1991. Strong professional interest in maternal and child health issues. Solid knowledge about various insurance plans, including HMO's and managed care companies. Experience in utilization review and quality assurance. Twenty five years plus social work experience in Hillsborough County. Licensed foster and adoptive parent. Member, Foster Parent Advisory Board for Hillsborough County Foster Parent Association. |
Claiborne Christian
Waychangers Services
813-731-1795
310 South Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, FL, 33609
| No | Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. Helping you Change your Way. Will see clients on a sliding scale. Weekend and evening hours available. I work with youth, adults and families, severe behavioral problems, sex abuse and trauma issues, addiction issues, depression and anger management. |
Michael Cripe
Cripe Behavorial Consulting, P.A.
813-416-7741
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Carol Crow, LMHC
Insight Counselors
2901 W. Busch Blvd. Suite 501
Tampa, FL 33618
813-915-1038
insightcounselors.com
| | Goal-directed, face-to-face psychotherapeutic interventions provided to the family with the participant present. May be provided in home or community. Helping children form healthy connections is an essential cornerstone for further attachments and aimed at establishing stability and permanency for the child. Before trauma and/or a history of maltreatment can be accessed, children must feel emotionally safe. This is accomplished through fostering more secure attachment with current caregivers. Parents are involved as partners in all stages of treatment and Carol acts as mentor and guide, always redirecting attachment towards the parents and family grouping. It is expected and predicted that families may return periodically as they experience family or developmental crises or transitions. Additional services include: parent(s) processing of issues that impact the patient, trauma therapy (EMDR),attachment therapy, family attachment parenting groups (with sufficient enrollment), and training and presentation (parent and professionals). |
Maggie Dante, LMHC, CFLE
Think Therapy, Inc.
813-864-0137
thinktherapy.org | | Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. |
Loretta Michele DeLoach, M.S.
813-943-4394
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Erica DuPont, LCSW
Pro Therapy Plus, LLC
813-966-7064
| No | |
Suyapa Odess Flores, M.S.
813-263-5580
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Tamera Fontenot, LMHC
727-543-7556
| No | Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 20 years of service in the Tampa Bay non-profit community. Most of work has been with children and families involved win the system of care to include birth families, foster families and adoptive families. Compassionate and competent areas of special focus are loss and grief, trauma/abuse, and the emotional/mental aspects of behavioral modification and addictions. |
| No | Specialized classes aimed at helping people to learn about a broad range of emotional and behavioral difficulties, their effects, and strategies to deal with them. May include groups to address domestic violence, anger management, substance abuse, parenting, etc. |
Jennifer Gail Kittredge
813-541-7441
| No | Supports and services by a Specialized Adoption Trainer to assure successful transition to adoption. |
Larry T. Legg, LCSW
Attainable Solutions
8019 North Himes Avenue
Tampa, FL 33614
813-965-2800
813-933-4265
northtampacounseling.com | No | Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. Individual, family, marriage/sex or group therapy available. Comprehensive assessments, Mental Health Assessments also available. Experience in providing services for abuse and trauma, ADHD, Depression, ODD, and much more. Special certifications include a Clinical Sexologist and a Juvenile Sexual Offender Counselor. |
Chris Long, LCSW
813-373-9264
| | Can provide answers to questions/direction for parents re: adopted child's school-related issues. Goal-directed, face-to-face interventions provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. NACAC certified adoption competency. Extensive knowledge and experience with special needs families and students. Community based or in-home counseling and treatment. Family therapy, parenting, parent-child relational disorders. |
Robin Maier
The Mothering Center
813-431-0797
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Patty McLaughlin
727-403-4449
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| | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Bachelor's degree or appropriate certification |
Clara Parker
The Parent Connection PC2
813-764-5383
cnbmanagement.com | | Supports and services by a Specialized Adoption Trainer to assure successful transition to adoption.
The Parent Connection (PC2) will strive to help families understand the complexities of caring for a child who has suffered trauma and loss from removal or loss of connections. Our focus is to teach parents how to deal with their own feelings rejection and helplessness that may be associated with caring for a child with profound issues.
PC2 will provide in-home support services to adoptive, foster, biological, and non-relative families. These services will be in the form of parent mentoring and coaching, transitional services, and system navigation. PC2 provides support and guidance for the parents and the children as they bridge the gap to a safe and loving family. The program will link the family to available services within the community as well as helping the family navigate the complexities of the child welfare system. |
Shane Raymond
Brandon Mental Health
813-315-8648
brandonmentalhealth.com | Yes | Has exp. as a child welfare case manager and investigator. Authored guide on the child welfare system, has innovative approach to clinical drug treatment. Goal-directed, face-to-face psychotherapeutic interventions provided to the family with the participant present. May be provided in home or community. Services: Mental Health Treatment, Government Contracted Services, Child Welfare Issues and Assessments, Adoption Related Services, Geriatric Case Management, Life Coaching, Mediations |
Erin Saintil
Collaborative Therapeutic Services, LLC
813-951-7346
therapycts.com | No | Erin has an adopted brother and has been a therapeutic foster parent in the past; she works with both foster and adoptive (pre and post) families; All of her staff are ASO providers, but Erin is currently the only one who is adoption trained; other staff to attend adoption training in the future. Has been able to help folks on STC's waitlist get services by accepting their insurance (ex. military's Tricare).
Assessment of the causes of behavior through observation and analysis; also includes planning, teaching, and implementing strategies to develop appropriate, healthy alternative behaviors, provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. Services: Individual, Family & Couples, Counseling, Psychological Testing, Community Presentations, Groups, Anger Management, Multiple Locations, Evening Appointments, Weekends. Staff is experienced in the school system, special education and foster care. Our diverse staff provides expertise in numerous areas of need. |
Diane Scotland-Coogan
Family Encounters, Inc.
352-238-6126
| Not yet; will be in 2011 | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Licensing Specialist in Foster Care System. Certified MAPP Trainer. By end of summer 2010 will be EMDR trauma certified and RAD certified. |
| | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Services provided in the home by specialized adoption trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental function. Services provided in the home that focus on specific training and coaching on skills such as household organization, time management, personal finance, cleaning, etc. |
| No | Certified Behavior Analyst (CBA) or Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (CABA). Assessment of the causes of behavior through observation and analysis; also includes planning, teaching, and implementing strategies to develop appropriate, healthy alternative behaviors, provided by a specialized Adoption Trainer. |
| | Activities that assist in identification of a child's strengths, determination of goals and need for services and supports, and specific activities to carry out and measure over time. |
Kimberly Jill Stone
813-758-5842
| | Specialized classes aimed at helping people to learn about a broad range of emotional and behavioral difficulties, their effects, and strategies to deal with them. May include groups to address domestic violence, anger management, substance abuse, parenting, etc. |
Jennifer Townsend
813-990-7752 | | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. |
Tiffany Tsagaris
Psychological Connections
Therapy and Evaluation Center
813-340-6778
| Yes | Services provided in the home by a Specialized Adoption Trainer that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Bachelor's degree or appropriate certification. |
Becky Vondrak, M.A.
813-625-4648 | | Services provided in the home that focus on the parent's need for instruction and skill development to maintain or enhance parental functioning. Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern and Certified Play Therapist with experience working with children ages 2 – 18. Services provided in-home, on-site, or school within North-Western Hillsborough County and North-Eastern Pinellas County. Specialties include: support groups, and psychoeducational groups working with children and families involved in the child welfare system, foster care, adoption cases, trauma and abuse/PTSD, anger management, ADHD, self-esteem, sexualized behaviors, Parent/Child Relationship Training, and etc. |
John Whitaker
Way of God Ministries
813-988-0802 | | |