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RACHAEL ST.CLAIRE PSYD

Curriculum Vita

PROFILE

• Accomplished behavioral health management professional with 20+ years experience in mental health service delivery and 7+ years experience in leadership positions. Record of success in workplace culture change, developing effective teams and teamwork, and strategic leadership. Recognized for ability to build relationships with physicians and therapists, partner with labor, inspire a vision of excellence in behavioral healthcare, create a line of sight to strategic objectives, and take strategy into action. Well-versed in the Labor Management Partnership, National Partnership Agreement and Unit Based Teams. Exceptional facilitative leader with skills to inspire peak individual and team performance, align team performance with organizational strategic objectives, and execute organizational and department goals. Recognized for enduring energy and innovative ideas, positive and optimistic orientation, listening and partnering skills, and directing staff engagement toward executing business goals.

• Quality Assurance of Service Delivery Systems
• Best Practice Implementation
• Behavioral Health Outcomes
• Behavioral Healthcare Regional Integration
• Labor Management Partnership
• Team Building
• Project Management

• BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT PSYCHOLOGIST, Kaiser Permanente, Denver, Colorado 1992-present. Progressive leadership development and administrative responsibility: staff psychologist 1992-2001, assistant supervisor 2001-2003, supervisor 2003-2005, manager 2005-2008, senior manager 2008-210, staff psychologist 2010-present; major strategic projects include Medication Triage and Referral, Crisis Team Re-Design, and Behavioral Health Outcomes; regional outward facing projects include Post-Partem Depression Workgroup and Mindfulness and Pregnancy Project in Obstetrics; regional committees include Regional Steering, Regional UBT, and Regional QA; improve services for culturally diverse members, specifically transgender services.
• FIELD SUPERVISOR, University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology; Denver, Colorado 2006-present. Individual and group supervision of doctoral clinical psychology students working with transgender patients; supervised activities include diagnostic interviewing, psychological assessment, and individual and group psychotherapy; approximately 5 students each academic year.
• PRIVATE PRACTICE - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, Denver, Colorado 1995-present. Psychological evaluation and therapy specializing in gender identity issues with transgender patients, physician and psychotherapist consultation on gender identity issues, professional training and workshops.
• CRISIS MOBILE TEAM, Mental Health Corporation of Denver; Denver, Colorado 1995-1997. Emergency psychological evaluation of chronically mentally patients in the community and in emergency departments of general hospitals; evaluated dangerousness to self and others and gravely disabled; consulted with physicians and psychiatrists; executed involuntary mental health holds.
• PRIVATE GROUP PRACTICE - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, Craig, Colorado 1990-1992. Psychological evaluation and therapy, forensic evaluation, competency evaluation, custody evaluation, consultation to mental health professionals
• PRIVATE GROUP PRACTICE - SUPERVISED PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINEE, Psychological Associates of the Black Hills,; Spearfish, South Dakota 1988-1990. Individual and group therapy, psychological evaluation, forensic evaluation, competency evaluation, custody evaluation, consultant to Archdiocese of Rapid City (Marriage Tribunal and Deaconate), professional workshop administration. Supervised by Robert Arnio PhD.
• PRIVATE GROUP PRACTICE - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANT, Freshwater House; Columbus, Ohio 1983-1985. Psychological evaluation and individual psychotherapy. Supervised by Carol Manchester PhD.

• WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY, Dayton, Ohio — Doctor of Psychology 1985 - 1988, American Psychological Association approved
• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio — Completed 130 quarter hours in Clinical Child Psychology Program 1982 - 1985
• UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Champaigne-Urbana, Illinois — Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Psychology 1977 - 1980, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Carbondale, Illinois — psychology major completed 31 semester hours 1976 - 1977

• FORT MEADE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER - WEST RIVER MENTAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP CONSORTIUM, Fort Meade, South Dakota — Doctor of Psychology 1987-1988,American Psychological Association - Full Accreditation

• Licensed Psychologist, Colorado, since 1991, License No. 1546

• American Psychological Association
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
• Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues (APA Division 44)

• St.Claire, Rachael. Transgender Healthcare. In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Healthcare. Published by Kaiser Permanente, National Diversity Department, Oakland, CA, 2000.

• April 2009. Counseling Transgender Clients. Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado
• December 2008. Counseling Transgender Clients. Metropolitan State
• College, Counseling Clinic, Denver, Colorado
• March 2007. Counseling Transgender Clients. Metropolitan State College, Counseling Clinic, Denver, Colorado
• April 2005. Introduction to Transgender Health. University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver,
• Colorado. (presentation)
• March 2005. Introduction to Transgender Health. American Medical Student Association Conference. Washington DC.
• February 2004. Transgender Guilt and Shame. Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Colorado Gold Rush Conference, Denver, Colorado (presenter).
• June 2003. St. Joseph's Hospital, Ethics Committee. (panel presenter)
• June 2001. Kaiser Permanente Trans-Cultural Medicine Symposium. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Healthcare: Working with Transgender Persons in Healthcare. Denver, Colorado (panel presenter).
• March 2000. Transgender Healing: Is Wholeness the Answer. Gender Identity Center of Colorado , Gold Rush Conference, Denver, Colorado (presenter).
• August 1999. A Jungian Analysis of Transgender Identity Development and Internalized Transphobia. Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Symposium XVI, Imperial College, London, England (presenter).
• February 1999. Denver Board of Education, ad hoc Committee on Transgender Discrimination Policy (consultant).
• April 1998. Perspectives on the Psychiatric Classification of Gender Diversity: A round Table Panel. Sixth Annual Lamba Rising Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (presenter).
• January 1997. Sexual Diversity. SGI-USA (Buddhist Temple), Denver, Colorado, (presenter).1995-1997 Transsexual Transitions Group, Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Denver, Colorado (group facilitator).

• Lifetime Achievement Award. Awarded by the Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, February 2004.

• www.TransgenderSoul.com has been published by Rachael St.Claire since 2000. TransgenderSoul provides educational information and resources about gender identity and transgender issues to affirm, educate, bring hope and heal the lives of those who live with conflict between their birth sex and their gender idenity. .