Clinical

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Self-Employed                                                                                                                       Arizona                                                  

• Treating individuals, couples, and families via telemedicine

• Supervising future therapists

• Education and consulting on sexual health and social justice issues

 

Center for Growth, Inc.                                                                                            Philadelphia, PA

Individual, Couple’s, and Sex Therapist                                          

Director of Quality Assurance                                                                    

• Provided psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families with mental health diagnoses

• Collaborated treatment with primary care physicians, gynecologists, and urologists

• Supervised clinicians and ensuring ethical documentation of best practices

 

MCC: Warwick Family Services                                                                                      Malvern, PA

Family-Based Therapist                                                                            

• Provided family-based therapy using Eco-Systemic Structural Family Therapy model

• Routinely assessed safety risks and responded to children in crisis

• Trained in the Sanctuary Model for trauma-informed care

 

St. Alexius Medical Center                                                                                          Bismarck, ND

Behavioral Health Group Technician                                               

• Led therapeutic behavioral health groups to inpatient psychiatry patients

• Assisted occupational therapists and nurses with direct patient care

 

Midtown Clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center                                  Omaha, NE

Medical Family Therapist Intern                                                               

• Provided behavioral health treatment based off of biopsychosocial assessments

• Consulted with patients as part of the patient-centered medical home interdisciplinary team

• Documented consultations and therapy sessions in medical EHRs

 

Training in Rural Mental Health Care (TRMHC) project                                              Lincoln, NE

Therapist Intern                                                                                           

• Offered mental health care via TeleHealth to rural communities            

• Collaborated with medical providers and traveled to rural communities monthly                 

• Designed protocols for medical providers and students providing care in rural settings

 

Family Resource Center                                                                                                Lincoln, NE

Marriage and Family Therapist Intern                                                           

• Strengthened individual and relational therapy competencies

• Developed and implemented my personal theory of therapy integration

 

Psychoeducational Parenting Group Co-Facilitator                                                   

• Coordinated with the other facilitators in developing objectives

• Enhanced therapeutic micro-skills

 

Access of the Red River Valley                                                                                Moorhead, MN

 Direct Care Provider                                                                              

• Provided personal care for children with mental and behavioral health disabilities

• Developed professionalism providing patience and empathy in work with families

 

Qualifications

 

• AAMFT Approved Supervisor

• Arizona License LMFT- 15390

• Certificate in Medical Family Therapy

• Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

• Pennsylvania License MF000944

 

Academic

 

Temple University                                                                                                       Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Instructor                                                                                   

• Taught multiple sections of Statistics for Psychology

• Created a safe place to ask questions and seek additional support outside of the classroom

• Wrote syllabi utilizing multiple teaching methods to meet course objectives

 

Inspira Health Network                                                                                                    Vineland, NJ

Family Life and Sexuality Education Specialist                                                            

• Taught Carrera’s At-Promise Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Curriculum to groups of 9th grade students

• Offered 1:1 support for the teens’ relationship and sexual decision-making development      

 

American Medical Student Association                                                                  Virtual Classroom

Sexual Health Scholars Program Facilitator                    

Facilitated online small group sessions with medical students     

              

Drexel University College of Medicine                                                                  Philadelphia, PA

Human Sexuality Seminar                                                                                        

            Residency Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry                                

• Coauthored curriculum for medical professionals to increase their comfort and competence addressing sexuality with their patients

• Taught didactic seminar 

 

Previous Presentations

• Sexual Orientation, Behavior, and Gender Identity

• Sexual Dysfunctions

• Child and Adolescent Sexual Development     

 

Research

 

Medicalizing Innocence: How Healthcare Providers Address Adolesent Sexuality in Medicine

• Doctoral dissertation proposal approved, IRB application in progress

           

Training in Rural Mental Health Care (TRMHC) Project Intern                                           UNL

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                      Dr. Richard Bischoff

• Traveled and collaborated with medical providers to provide mental health care                             

• Created protocols and a website for medical providers and training MFT students

 

Personality, Social and Emotion Lab                                                                                  NDSU

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                      Dr. Michael D. Robinson

• Administered studies and ran participants                                             

• Generated ideas for new studies

• Interpreted data to fit original hypotheses on Object Relations theories

 

Visual Neuroscience Lab                                                                                                      NDSU

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                                                 Dr. Robert Gordon

• Created visual scenes for studies                                                     

• Collected data using eye-trackers then analyzed data using SPSS

 

Publications

 

• Gilbertson Diamond, E. (2020). Genderbands. In T. Clark, T. Q. Gilbert, & K. Rayne (Eds.), Orientation: Teaching about Identity, Attraction & Behavior, 1. (pp. 65-76).

• Gilbertson, E. P. (2017). Genderbands. In T. Clark, T. Q. Gilbert, & K. Rayne (Eds.), 25 Great Lesson Plans about Sexual Orientation. (pp. 143-154).                                     

• Fetterman, A. K, Robinson, M. D., & Gilbertson, E. P. (2014). Implicit self-importance in an interpersonal pronoun categorization task. Current Psychology, 33(2). 185-198. doi: 10.1007/s12144-014-9205-x

 

Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy                                                                                        August 2021

Master of Education                                                                                         August 2015

Widener University                                                 

                        

Master of Science                                                                                             August 2012

• Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy                                                           

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

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University of Nebraska Medical Center                                                            

 Post-Degree Certificate in Medical Family Therapy                                      August 2012

 

North Dakota State University                                                                            

Bachelor of Science in Psychology                                                              December 2009

• Minor in Child Development Family Science                                                                           

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude

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