His background includes working as a bilingual (English - Spanish) social worker in community mental health; participating on a
mobile crisis intervention
unit for suicidal, homicidal, and actively psychotic youth; providing home - based individual and family therapy; facilitating experiential outdoor therapy groups for pre-adolescent youth with externalizing disorders; and running process - oriented parenting groups for parents trying to reunify with their children after removal for abuse and / or neglect.