Jennie Korn Geisler, CAC, LMFT

COUNSELING EXPERIENCE

Counseled individual clients weekly on issues relating to chemical dependency, job stress, relaxation techniques, grief, pre-marital and extra marital concerns, anxiety and panic attacks, parenting, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and pornography addiction.

Ran weekend group for New Life Ministries bi-monthly for wives of men involved in affairs, pornography and sexual deviance.

Ran weekend group Healing is a Choice for New Life Ministries bi-monthly.

Counseled couples and families weekly in communication and problem solving skills.

Led weekly, therapeutic discussion groups for recovering adults and their families.

Led thrice weekly ongoing support/therapy group for adults recovering from alcohol and other forms of drug addiction.

Counseled families of children with behavior problems attending private school for the socially/emotionally disturbed.

Conducted two day psycho-educational seminars on a weekly basis for co-dependent friends and family of inpatient recovering addicts and alcoholics.

Counseled the family and patient regarding early recovery issues

Lectured weekly to recovering adults on issues such as relationships, relapse prevention, shame and guilt, nutrition, communication skills, the 12 Steps, etc.

Maintained a weekly continued care group addressing early recovery issues for addicts/alcoholics and their families.

Led groups for adolescent children of alcoholics in a school setting. Co-led a group for sexually abused girls.

Led ongoing support/therapy group for biological parents of youth in foster family based treatment program.

Counseled college students in crisis, career, and family decisions.

Led weekly psycho-educational groups on co-dependency for families and friends of recovering addicts and alcoholics.


WORK EXPERIENCE

New Life Ministries 2002 to present
Penn Hills, PA
Group Leader for National Weekend Therapy Sessions

Private Practice 1991 to present
Greentree, PA and Penn Hills, PA
Marriage and Family Therapist

Trinity School for Ministry 2003-2006
Ambridge, PA
Marriage and Family Therapist
11/88-3/92
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Outpatient Therapist (11/88-7/90)
Family Therapist (7/90-3/92)

Pressley Ridge School/PRYDE Program
8/81-11/88
Day Program /Family Liaison Specialist (9/85-11/88)
PRYDE Program:
Parent Supervisor/Community Liaison (8/81-3/84)
Program Supervisor (3/84-8/84)
Intake Director (8/84-9/85)

Housing Opportunities, Inc.,
2/80-7/81
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Budget Counselor

Coalition for Christian Outreach
9/74-6/77
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Campus Minister