A Clinical Expert in Guiding Individuals and Communities To Resilience
About Melissa Glaser
As a compassionate and motivated professional, Melissa Glaser leverages her extensive experience as a psychotherapist with impeccable organizational skills and operational expertise to facilitate community healing in the wake of tragedies. She has a record of leading robust response and recovery programs; building enduring relationships; training teams to provide comprehensive, sustainable services on a large-scale; and managing grants as well as fundraising.
Community Outreach Liasion for Sandy Hook
In addition to running her own successful practice, Melissa served as Community Outreach Liaison to the communities of Newton and Sandy Hook, Connecticut as they work to recover from the devastating 2012 school shooting. She established the Recovery and Resiliency Team, using the first grant awarded by the D.O.J. to address community recovery. Melissa developed a sustainable strategy by identifying needs and utilizing surveys to inform her planning.
She led her team in developing direct access sites, care coordination, trauma treatment, assessment for financial reimbursement, and Board development. Her comprehensive recovery plan provided education and support programs. She built communication systems for stakeholders and community members including developing a website and marketing services to encourage participation. Melissa and her team provided direct support to more than 800 individuals within one year and received a 96% positive response in overall performance rating of the team’s approach to community recovery.
Areas of Focus:
- Depression, Anxiety
- Life Adjustment
- Grief and Loss
- Anger Management
- Cognitive/Developmental/Spectrum Disorders
- Divorce, Separation and Relationship Issues
- Stress Management
- Dissociative Disorders
- Trauma
- Abuse
- Terminal/Chronic Illness
- Parenting Guidance
- School Related Issues
- Socialization
- Eating Disorders.
A Clinical Expert in Guiding Individuals and Communities To Resilience
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