JOSHUA
CHRISTIAN
LMFT, CFI, PRE, PC/DM
Profile
I am a passionate professional who loves a challenge. Utilizing my excellent communication skills I have developed in Sales and consulting in the computer technology arena, and now, I am striving to transition my skill set to: CFI, and eventually PRE work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Reintegration Therapy, and Training the next generation of Therapists.
I am emerging as a local leader in my field with my involvement in AFCC and taking a leadership position within the Emotionally Focused Therapy community in Southern Colorado teaching other therapists to leverage the best researched and empirically validated relational model of therapy to date.
As I build my skill set, I look forward to working with the courts however I may be of assistance. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I would love to see what I can do to be of service to the courts.
Therapywize
3578 Hartsel Dr. # E313
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
ASSOCIATIONS
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
NorthCentral University
2017 – 2019
- 4.0 GPA while completing 3-year program in 2 years
- Participated in Student Technology Board
- Focused on Systemic Family Therapy, Couples counseling, and
- Family Counseling.
Classes Include:
- Foundations for Graduate Study in Marriage and Family Therapy
- Treatment Planning and Traditional Family Therapy
- Recovery-Oriented Care & Postmodern Family Therapy
- Systemic Evaluation and Case Management
- Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development in Marriage and Family Therapy
- Psychopathology, Diagnosis, and Systemic Treatment o Couples and Sex Therapy
- Research Methods and Evidence Based Practice
- Human Development and Family Dynamics Across the Lifespan
- Cultural Diversity, Gender, and Family Development o Families in Crisis
- Family Therapy with Children
500 hours of therapy sessions including:
▪ reunification therapy cases
▪ 60% of couples and Family therapy cases ▪ Andearlycompletion
University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
2002 – 2006
- B.S., Finance
- B.S., Marketing
- President Snow Riders (2004-2006)
- College of Business IT Supervisor (2004-2006)
Certification and CE Training
14-10-127.5 Specific training and experience
- The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on young children (1 Hour) 5/15/23.
- The Family Court System and Intimate Partner Violence: The Effects on Young Children 6/1/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Shifting the Paradigm: Guidance for Addressing Domestic Abuse 6/1/2023 (1.5 hours)
- The Shortened MASIC-Online IPV Screening Tool 6/1/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Screening for Intimate Partner Violence 2/8/2023 (1 Hour)
- CO AFCC Spring Conference – Intimate Partner Violence seminar 4/28/2023 (15 hours)
- Scheduled: HB23-1178 Full 20Hour training on Domestic Violence and Child abuse 10/12&13&14/2023 (20 hours)
- 4 years working in forensic role as CFI with victims of Domestic Violence.
Total DV Specific training Specific to Custody evaluations in 2023 – 21.5 Hours
Ongoing Training and Certifications
- Bias in Forensic Evaluations: The Team Approach Versus the Single Evaluator 6/2/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Parenting Plan Evaluations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 6/2/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Harm Reduction: Avoiding Anchoring Bias and Binary Approaches to Parent-Child Contact 6/2/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Kayden’s Law Reframed 6/2/2023 (1.5 hours)
- Advanced Training in Parenting Plan Evaluations 5/31/2023 (6 Hours)
- Group to Individual Inference in Scientific Testimony (1 Hour) 4/18/23
- The Fundamentals of Conducting Parenting Plan Evaluations (28 hours)
- Comprehensive training for Parenting Coordinators/Decisionmakers (20 hours)
- Graham Hill, Understanding Adults that Sexually Abuse Children (1 hour) 11/16/2022.
- The Do’s and Don’ts of DORA: and the pitfalls of calling a therapist as a witness (2 hours)
- AFCC 15Th Symposium on Child Custody – From a Full House to Parenting Apart:
- Dangers of Concept Creep in Family Law (2 hours)
- Cultural and Religious Factors affecting Custody Evaluations and Decisions (2 hours)
- What to do when your child doesn’t want to go to their other parent’s home (2 hours)
- Rapport, Emotion & Credibility in the Zoom Room (1 hour)
- Diversity & the Revised AFCC Guidelines (1 hour)
- Stop the Madness: Avoiding Adverse Childhood Experiences and other Maladies (2 hours)
- Integrated services for complex families: Judge, Assessor and Therapist (2 hours)
- My Child Hates Me: Research and Recommendations on Parent-Child Estrangement (2 hours)
- Child Custody Assessment: Professional Perspectives from Research (2 hours)
- Detecting Children Exposed to Drug using environments (2 hours)
- Unsticking the stuck client: A process for going from resistance to resilience (2 hours)
- Refuse and Resist Cases: Making the Case with the court 6/22/22
- Malicious Mothers, Ferocious Fathers & Angry Adolescents: Challenges and Family-Focused Approaches to Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems. 4/22/22 (6 CEUs)
- CE – Coercion and Control Training (12 hours as required by HB 21-1228) Completed 10/20/21
- AFCC Training: Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse: What they know and how they tell us.
- COAFCC Board Chair 7/1/21 to present.
- AFCC Deconstructing a Child Custody Evaluation
- AFCC A primer in Child Development for the Family Law Professional
- AFCC Coparenting & Collaboration in High Conflict “Crossover” cases.
- AFCC Providing Effective Testimony for Mental Health Professionals
- AFCC Remote CFI and PRE Training
- EFT Practicum 2020 as EFT Coach
- AFCC Training Q1 2020 – The Intersection of Domestic Violence, Technology, and Family Law
- CFI Training course 2020
- AFCC Training Q4 2019 – A Judicial Panel Presentation on Domestic Relations Best Practices.
- EFT Core Skills 1 2019
- AFCC Training Q3 – Children and Relocation.
- EFT Core Skills 2 2019
- EFT Cores Skills 3 2019
- EFT Core Skills 4 2019
- EFT Practicum 2019
WORK EXPERIENCE
WORK EXPERIENCE
TherapyWize
August 2019-Present
Couples, Family & Individual Therapist
- Specializing in Family counseling, couples therapy, reintegration therapy and other forms of
- Family Systems.A Dozen successful reunification therapy cases so far
- CFI
- In this role I provide mental health services to individuals, couples and families by applying Systems Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) or Reunification Counseling depending on the needs of the client.
- Attend Monthly peer consultation for Reunification Therapists, providing and local leadership and providing/gathering peer support.
- Attend/Facilitate a monthly peer consultation with EFT Focused clients where I and a small group provide leadership for the EFT community organizing additional trainings, courses, and client intensives.
- Attend Weekly peer consult to facilitate educational growth and evaluate current ethical considerations.
- Complete required continuing education requirements for licensure and to advance skills.
Tridex Systems
August 2019-Present
Senior Technical Consultant
- Leverage technical experience bringing people and projects together, consulting in business practices, application of technology to customer environments and ensuring customer is satisfied with the process.
- Leverage knowledge with internal disagreements to resolve business processes to best practices.
- Document business systems reflect on them with clients and suggest innovative and better ways to process workflows.
- Implement Software and business processes to best practices, guiding decision making with best practices
- Utilize ERP background to consult and validate business processes.
- Provide technical consulting regarding requisition, implementation, and preparation of new business systems.
Private Consultant
April 2017- August 2019
Owner / Operator
In this role, I have been assisting various past customers with my deep expertise of Warehousing, and Transportation Logistics, fulfilling my desire to use my entrepreneurial spirit by owning my own company.
- Assess needs from a wholistic business approach, identifying and documenting systems, systems issues, and the impacts they make to the organization.
- Develop a plan of action to implement solutions to identified business pains.
- Utilized HighJump technologies to meet customer needs and deliver profitable software implementations and value propositions to customers.
- Leverage experience and knowledge base to assist in enhancing customer ability to compete in competitive markets.
IFS North America
February 2016 – March 2017
Business Solutions Consultant
- Leveraged Warehousing, Supply Chain and Transportation Logistics expertise to bring a new level of Sales Consulting to a team heavily experienced in Manufacturing
- Demonstrated an ability to quickly learn and adapt to new products, and a new market, while further enhancing my presentation and solution salesmanship abilities.
- Leveraged my experience in in Product Management to define customer timelines, and delivery milestones as part of the sales process.
- Conducted prospect surveys to determine key business issues and relate product functionality to the customer issues to deliver value.
- Responded to RFP/RFI/RFX proposals and used in combination with prospect surveys to build sales strategy via solution selling.
- Prepared and presented compelling proof of concept demonstrations to solve customer business issues.
- Collaborated with key team members to Prepare and present project implementation plans.
- Continuously embraced new product functions and technological products while innovating and applying new demonstration techniques to present the value of these functions.
- Utilized Solution Selling and Power Presentation techniques to add value to manufacturing companies who struggled with their supply chain.
- Content expert in handheld contributing to development strategy, innovative uses in Manufacturing warehouses.
HighJump
Sept 2008 – June 2015
Product Manager\Channel Enablement
- Demonstrated my business acumen by successfully Implementing a software as a service business model using virtualization technologies to double margin of acquired companies.
- Successfully utilizing my skills in Solution Selling to grow partner pipeline and cross sell opportunities.
- Utilized innovative technologies to meet partner needs and deliver demonstrable software and value propositions to customers/business partners worldwide.
- Leveraged my Marketing training create marketing collateral for internal and business partner use to grow business
- Successfully managed five new products within the start-up company to a point where they netted over eight million dollars in revenue.
- Developed and managed roadmap for multiple products and versions • Dock Door Scheduling • Business Intelligence • Document Imaging • Licensing Server and related functionality to Platform Project • Parcel and Truck Tracking • Route Optimization
- Developed customer stories (Use Cases) and worked closely with other Product Managers to coordinate features, released functionality, and dependencies.
- Managed development projects and clearly articulated customer stories, timelines and ensured release dates were met.
- Continued Channel Enablement responsibilities by conducting sales presentations, communicating value proposition of new functionality, and ensuring implementation and support of the products were meeting customer expectations
- Acted on leadership team advising on business acquisitions, sales strategies in the market and in specific customer deals.
- Drove entire business through launch plan of products, working with Marketing, Sales and Business Partners to clearly communicate value proposition, generate excitement and sales.
- Brought market innovation by launching a new products, services, and growing business unit sales, while managing my products roadmaps to always achieve a new level of success.
- Wrote and verified accuracy of technical documentation, e- learning video training, and managed web deployment of installation media, and training.
Infor Global Solutions
August 2005 – July 2008
Sales Engineer/Sales Support
Conducted Technical evaluations of customer environments, evaluating and providing pricing recommendations for sever sizing, and disaster recovery plans and pricing options.
Engaged in compelling presentations to customers with solutions for Web Storefront and Customer Relationship Management and achieved an 80% close ratio.
Evaluated Business Systems and Needs to provide recommendation for products, services, consulting needs through a corporate wide systemic analysis, documented recommendations, and prepared relevant presentations with recommendations.
Developed customer stories and worked closely with product management to coordinate new features required to better sell the web storefront including enhanced search capabilities using Progress EasyAsk, designing cart functionality and consulting with Search Engine Optimization.
Demonstrated ability to write, maintain and test technical documentation on products.
Family Systems Based Approach
Our family systems approach focuses on how different family members interact with each other and how their behavior affects the overall dynamics of the family unit. This approach recognizes that the emotional wellbeing of each individual is connected to the emotional wellbeing of everyone else in the family. It focuses on identifying patterns of interaction within families, improving communication, and developing positive changes in family relationships.
Josh Christian
Josh@therapywize.com
719-445-6096
Therapywize
3578 Hartsel Dr. #E313
Colorado Springs, CO 80920