Specializing in Adolescent and Young Adult Treatment
Geoff Genser MSW, LCSW
15 N Main Street
3rd Floor
West Hartford, CT 06107
Telephone: 860-570-0877
Fax: 860-264-4737
Education: Masters
PROFILE
Masters in Social Work (MSW)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Excellent interpersonal communication skills
Certified in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM): Suicide and Homicide (
Trained in methods and practices of Narrative, Solution-Focused Therapy, Psychodrama, TFCBT
Extensive knowledge of current pharmacological treatments
Appalachian Mountain Club: Youth Opportunities Program Trip leader Certification
Grant Writing training and skills
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Geoff Genser, LCSW, LLC (Private Practice) West
03/2004 - Present
Outpatient Office and Home-Based Individual and Family Therapist
Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing outpatient services to adolescents and adults in crisis; Provide services to Medicaid and Commercially Insured clients in Hartford and surrounding areas; Services include individual, family, and group therapy, as well as crises intervention and management; Receive community and DCF referrals to service individuals struggling with major mental illnesses, psychosocial stressors impacting functioning, and substance abuse; Treatment is culturally sensitive and client-centered, and utilizes cognitive-behavioral and narrative approaches to engage individual and family strengths; Ongoing collaboration is maintained when clinically appropriate with schools, DCF, courts, insurance, and other state systems
The Village for Families and Children, Isaiah Clark Clinic
09/2005 – 11/2007
Clinical Supervisor
Serving as clinical supervisor to two social work graduate students working as interns within the Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy Program; I provide weekly individual support and training to the supervisees as they render home and community-based mental health services to substance abusing adolescents and their families; I assist the supervisees as they appropriately struggle to grasp the concepts and interventions specific to the practice of clinical social work
The Village for Families and Children, Isaiah Clark Clinic
09/2002 – 03/2005
Social Worker III & IICAPS Clinician
Clinical social worker providing office/home/school-based individual, family, and group treatment to children and their families in the North End of Hartford, Connecticut; Responsibilities include intake/assessment, DSM IV diagnosis, treatment planning, contact with health insurance (Medicaid, Commercial), and facilitation of groups with juvenile sex offenders, court mandated clients, and young parents; Also functioned as lead clinician for intensive in-home child and adolescent psychiatric service (IICAPS)
Youth Service Providers Network
06/2000 - 07/2002
Clinical Social Worker
Provider of community and home-based therapeutic services to youth and families living in South Boston and Roxbury; Acting as police station based Social Worker for a progressive grant-funded organization that works in partnership with Boston Police Department and Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston; Work independently and in collaboration with community providers and network of other YSPN station-based Social Workers; Services include intake and assessment, cell interviews, case management, ongoing and short term individual and family therapy, group-work; crises intervention, substance abuse counseling, art and recreational therapy, and community organizing
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04/2000 – 09/2002
Crises Response Worker
Member of on-call team of trained crises-response professionals who provide immediate therapeutic services to individuals and families who have become victims of trauma; Provided containment, assessment, education, and resource installation to community individuals who have been affected by the untimely death of a child or young adult close to them; Worked with a team to manage a therapeutic response to friends and family attending the wakes and funerals of children killed in community violence; Provided such post-vention services as debriefings and defusings to friends and family of suicide and homicide victims; Provided trauma debriefings in New York and Boston for individuals affected by September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center
Catholic Charities: Home For Awhile
09/2001 - 07/2002
Fee-For-Service Clinician
Performed assessments, short-term, and ongoing clinical work with Department of Youth Service (DYS) committed males re-adjusting to their communities and homes following several months of incarceration/treatment
Baystate Prison: Growing Together
08/1999 – 9/2002
Psychodrama Facilitator
Invited to Baystate Prison to co-facilitate psychodramatic exercises and image/forum theater within a therapeutic men's group called Growing Together; Introduced exercises from Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed to Mass. inmates; men are challenged to theatrically recreate oppressive moments in their lives and to generate and rehearse successful outcomes for themselves
09/1999 - 05/2000
Clinical Social Work Intern
Provider of outpatient psychotherapeutic services to adults with chronic mental illness; responsibilities include the provision of individual therapy and case management services, co-facilitation of men's group; screening and intake of new consumers, biopsychosocial assessment and diagnosis, treatment plan development, client notes and reports, crises intervention, and emergency clinical support; team member in the development of gay and lesbian issues group for clients
09/1998 - 08/1999
Clinical Social Work Intern
MSW Intern in a pediatric clinic providing outpatient and outreach therapy to teenage groups, couples, families, and individuals living within the communities of Roxbury and Dorchester, Mass.; regularly collaborated with a multidisciplinary team providing medical, psychological, and social services to young mothers, fathers, and their children; worked closely with African American, Haitian, and Latino teenage fathers around issues of social and emotional development, fatherhood preparation, paternity establishment, court/legal advocacy, sexual education, child development, relationship with child's mother/family, violence prevention, anger management, and connection to outside resources; contributed biopsychosocial reports, formulations, and discharge summaries to client charts; independently created and edited a didactic film about teenage fatherhood
South Shore Educational Collaborative
08/1996 - 02/1999
Family Worker/Residence Supervisor
Residential treatment work with emotionally and behaviorally troubled teens; trained in narrative and solution-focused therapy; supervised staff and residents in milieu; prepared and distributed psychotropic medications; mediated weekly meetings between residents and their families; lead a weekly therapeutic issues group for male residents (exploring anger management, sexuality, personal strengths and weaknesses); planned and led groups of residents on overnight wilderness backpacking trips
COMPASS Outreach and Tracking Services
10/1997 - 09/1998
Outreach/Family Reunification Worker
Outreach Caseworker for an agency independently contracted by Department of Social Services to provide intensive outreach assistance to urban adolescents and families (Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester); liaison between schools, courts, DSS, DYS, therapeutic services (in/outpatient), and various intervention programs; provided necessary referrals to collateral agencies; supplied timely, thorough documentation to lead agents (assessments, progress and crises reports); Planned and led New Hampshire overnight wilderness backpacking trip for coed group of inner-city teens
EDUCATION
01/2003 ASWB Clinical Licensure (LCSW)
01/2001
05/2000
05/2000
REFERENCES
Erin Naspo, LCSW; Professional Consultant; Director of Child Guidance, The Village (860-748-8731)
Catherine Corto-Mergins, LCSW Village for Families and Children MDFT Program Director (860-836-7359)
Stephney Springer, LCSW, PhD.; School-Based Psychologist (860-695-4427)
