I have worked in the mental health field for over 19 years including positions as:
- School Social Worker at Guilderland Elementary School since 1998 facilitating approximately 20 friendship
skills and banana splits groups a week, teaching social skills, performing crisis intervention and consulting with teachers
and parents.
- Private Practice therapist with Albany Associates for Child and Family Mental Health since 2005.
- Outpatient Mental Health Social Worker with children, families and adults at Saratoga and Rensselaer
Counties from 1992 through 1998.
- Group Therapist for Waveriders, a support group for grieving children and adolescents at Community Hospice
of Albany from 1999 through 2003.
- Adjunct Faculty at the State University of New York at Albany teaching graduate level course on Solution
Oriented Therapy since 1996.
MESSAGE FROM MS. BECKY DEAMER, SOCIAL WORK INTERN
September 8, 2009
Hello Parents,
My
name is Katie Sears and I am a social work intern working with Mark Lane at Guilderland Elementary School this year. I am
currently a second year student in the masters of social work program at SUNY Albany. I earned my undergraduate degree at
Syracuse University where my coursework focused on psychology and child and family studies.
Last year, I had the experience of interning
at the Center for Disability Services in the residential division, working with children and adults with a variety of developmental
disabilities. As part of my responsibilities, I co-facilitated an assertiveness
group as well as a play therapy and sensory group for non-verbal children.
I will
be available at Guilderland Elementary School on Thursdays and Fridays throughout the entire school year. If you have any
questions or concerns please feel free to email me at ktsears@gmail.com. I am looking forward to meeting
your children and appreciate the opportunity to get to know each of them during the year.
Sincerely,
Katie Sears
Social Work Intern
