After receiving his Masters Degree in 1992, Terry worked in community mental health centers and for Native American clients experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and poly substance abuse. Working with this clientele evolved into an EAP position with the Oneida Tribal Employee Assistance Program doing clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment. At that time he trained and also received experience in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and later made good use of these skills when he helped out in Louisiana and the Golf Coast several times after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Gustav.
Terry worked for several years at the Crisis Center of Brown County and Family Service Association providing crisis intervention, stabilization, counseling, referral, advocacy and follow-up services. Past work also included outreach services to HIV patients with Brown County Aids/HIV Community Outreach Services.
Terry later evolved into working with youth at Boys & Girls Clubs of Green Bay, where he became the Director of Counseling and Program Development and Executive Program Officer, responsible for planning, managing and coordinating the youth guidance and development programs and after school programs. Although Terry was offered the position of Executive Director for the Boys & Girls Club of Door County, his life led him to Portland where he provided youth service training and management consultation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Portland before returning to the Green Bay area and accepting a position with Riverside Psychiatric Group.
Today, Terry is happily married to Laurie and father of 5 children, grandfather of 4, working as a therapist at Riverside, where he makes good use of his prior education and life experiences treating children to adults. |
