Francis Cruz MFT
Therapist - MFT - Marriage & Family Therapist / Individuals / Bilingual
Professional Experience
Director
The Child Center of NY, Queens Child Guidance Center 2006 to 2009
- Provide oversight to Beacon Community Center
- Provide leadership and support to various community programs and services.
- Site Director for LATCH Program, PS89Q.
Program Coordinator
The Child Center of New York － Elmhurst, New York 2001 to 2006
- Program Development (DYCD) funded after-school programs.
- Established academic, social and arts enrichment initiative.
- Training and professional development workshops for staff.
- Trained, supervised and evaluated staff.
- Coached staff on improving management skills that resulted in multilateral staff achievement of work objectives.
- Created and managed cohesive, goal-oriented group.
Site Director
Sunnyside Community Services － Sunnyside, New York 1999 to 2001
Director
Hudson Guild － New York, New York 1997 to 1998
- Provide oversight to all Education Center Programs
- Lead site-based training and professional development workshops
- Directed recruitment and retention plan
- Trained, supervised and evaluated staff.
- Coached staff
- Counseled employees
- Created and managed cohesive, goal-oriented group.
- Successfully refined and implemented new projects and initiatives.
Site Director
Sunnyside Community Services － Sunnyside, New York 1999 to 2001
Director
Hudson Guild － New York, New York 1997 to 1998
Provide oversight to all Education Center Programs, such as School Age Programs, Summer Day Camp, Options Program and Community Computer Classes
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Professional Education
Masters Marriage and Family Therapist
Northcentral University
Department of Education-Bilingual- Branch Teaching License
Bachelor of Arts: Secondary Education /Spanish
SUNY At New Paltz
Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
Member, Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa MFT International Honor Society
Member, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated
Services
Understanding that the teenage years and adolescence can be hard. It’s difficult to deal with all the changes. Changes in your body, in self-identity, relationships, etc. The pressure to perform. Emerging feelings of sexuality.
We will help you restore the close emotional connections that you want and long for. You will learn to recognize the dance of communication that keeps you distant from your partner. You can save your relationship. More Relationships End Than Need Too.
Get the happiness you want and deserve. We’re guided by the belief that the ultimate goal of your life is to be happy. We strive to help you transform. Helping you with the issues that you are facing & helping you get unstuck.
TCG Child & Family Institute counseling therapy was started because often times, entire families need support while trying to communicate, learn, and create boundaries.
Infertility changes you. Physically, emotionally, socially, martially and financially. The experience is filled with stress. Who & how much to tell? How to cope with the fertile world? Knowing how to communicate with loved ones & health care providers? How to juggle treatment, personal life and, above all, how to bear the interminable waiting?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that helps people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress resulting from disturbing life experiences. Few psychological treatments have been as widely heralded as EMDR.
Hypnotherapy (hypnosis) is the use of intense concentration & focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness. The hypnotic state allows you to explore painful thoughts, feelings, and memories that might have been otherwise hidden from your conscious mind due to the brain’s defense mechanisms.
Assessment consists of a Clinical face-to-face, in-person interview and collateral interviews with significant others. A psychosocial history is obtained to include presenting problem, including a discussion of pertinent and detailed information describing contributing factors, incidents and issues that precipitated assessment.