Leslie Hartley

• Providing psychological services to patients both pre and post surgery with pre surgery assessment and psycho education, then ongoing support throughout their bariatric journey.
• Developing customized treatment plans for patients, tailored to address their unique psychological needs and goals.
• Expanding professional knowledge by attending conferences and participating in continuing education opportunities to stay current on best practices in the field of bariatric psychology.
• Fostering a positive work environment with a multidisciplinary team, participating in team meetings, offering constructive feedback, and maintaining open lines of communication with colleagues.

Providing psychological services to victims of sexual violence, both recent and historical childhood sexual abuse. Treating clients with complex trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, eating disorders and mood disorders. Also, designing and facilitating various psycho-social, psycho-educational, and psychotherapy groups.

• Ensure a high level of community safety by providing assessment, treatment and intervention to offenders and groups of offenders within the correctional facility. Assist with intake, assessment of risk, offender development and ongoing case management.
• Observed service delivery for cases involving specific problems and broadly disordered behaviour.
• Assisted with documenting and evaluating behaviour's of individuals with mental health diagnoses.
• Implemented crisis intervention techniques to help individuals through complex situations.
• Assessed available case data and prepared reports outlining findings and recommendations.

Dealing with all areas of management relating to staffing, client liaising, company accounts and government reporting.

Rogerian based crisis counselling, dealing with a diverse range of clients and problems ranging from simple loneliness to serious mental health issues and suicidal ideation.