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Education
January 2021 – March 2023

Clinical Mental Health Counseling, M.A.

Northwestern University

3.93 GPA, Yield Scholarship, Highest Award, $10K

2014 – 2017

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, B.A.

University of South Florida

Double Concentration in Psychology & Sociology

Dean's List, Cum Laude

2012 – 2013

Strategic Design and Business Management, B.B.A.

Parsons School of Design

Dean's List, Dean's Merit Scholarship

Professional Experience
June 2024 – presentGainesville

Intake Counselor

University of Florida Shands Psychiatric Hospital
  • •Swiftly coordinate Psychiatry and finance departments to admit patients for hospitalization
  • •Perform biopsychosocial evaluation, write clinical note for attending physician, and determine level of care
  • •Coordinate with emergency rooms, Alachua Police, government social services during patient crisis
  • •Conduct utilization management activity to ensure proper insurance funding for admission
    • August 2021 – presentSt. Petersburg, FL

    Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern

    Life Adventures Counseling, LLC
  • •Lectured at UC Berkeley and Bay Area Discovery Con, wrote for Counseling Today, podcasted with All Counseling
  • •Beta tested PsychScan, the first AI mental health assessment, on 30 telehealth patients
  • •Designed patient journey from promotional materials, website, to intake and termination
  • •Manage direct patient billing, invoicing, insurance claims, reconciliation forms, annual tax reports
  • •Conducted over 700 therapy sessions in 2023 with individual, couples, family, and groups
  • •Established 50 long-term outpatient clients and counseled 100+ patients in inpatient settings
  • •Wrote over 1000 patient progress notes, 100 treatment plans
  • •Obtained grants from cryptocurrency company Polygon and International Psychotherapy Institute
  • •Volunteering 200+ hours of crisis intervention via Crisis Text Line
  • •Trained over 50 weeks with renowned psychologist Dr. Jonathan Shedler, presenting case conceptualizations and converting feedback into lasting psychological change for patients
    • February 2013 – presentInternational

    Founder & Creative Director

    Allison Hauser Consulting, LLC
  • •Lead production and strategic design services for clients: Mozilla Foundation UK, Magnus "The Shazam for Art" Smart App, The Dali Museum VR
  • •Reached 100K+ listeners and industry professionals for 4+ national nonprofits via social media, programming: National Organization for Arts in Health, St. Pete Eco Village, The Well Therapy
  • •Communications liaison for Daddy Kool Records and independent musicians: wrap-around event production, concert ticketing, financial management, vinyl sales and merchandising
  • •Supported DIS Art in publishing an alternative stock photo gallery via styling, creative direction, model recruitment, event representation
  • •Evaluated Northwestern University Solar Car Team's employee well-being to improve 2023 race outcome
    • October 2022 – March 2023

    Neuroscience Program Evaluator

    Beckley Retreats
  • •Researched and developed Beckley Retreats' 11-week virtual psychedelic pre- and post-retreat integration program (Startup: 3.3M Seed)
  • •Analyzed hundreds of publications, 50 multi-year surveys, and conducted 15 expert interviews alongside SVP and neuroscientists from Imperial College London
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  • •Wrote internal deliverables for C-Suite on how to refine client curriculum to maximize psychological change via multimodal sonic, visual, and verbal process
    • August 2019 – March 2020Clearwater, FL, USA

    Art Center Director

    Artz 4 Life Academy, Inc.
  • •Produced Dundu Dole African Ballet Company shows, managing 100+ dancers, musicians, and partnerships with national choreographers and sponsors
  • •Managed art center operations, ensuring an enriching environment for 100+ K-12 children
  • •Created surveys to monitor children's progress and academic development
  • •Formulated interventions to support children's psychological development and creative skillsets
  • •Coordinated with external therapists and education specialists to address developmental needs
  • •Wrote strategic plans and grant materials to relieve systemic inequities affecting centers' families
    • May 2015 – May 2016Tampa, FL, USA

    Assistant Sociology Researcher

    University of South Florida
  • •Synthesized data from 300 satirical videos to assess content and production factors influencing viral success
  • •Prepared statistical analysis, summary tables, coded transcripts, identified key themes, and drafted literature for conferences
  • •Defined deductive codes and codified discrete units of content using typologies, video analytics, R, and STATA to discover if/how gender, sexualities, and age mediate virality
  • •Provided valuable insights and contributed to research efforts in the field of social psychology and sociology in fields of nonverbal transmission of humor, influence, and stereotype
    • May 2013 – September 2013New York City, NY, USA

    Digital Marketing and Product Development Fellow

    Taproot Foundation
  • •Executed Google Analytic campaigns, A/B tested SEO, and improved UX to target 200,000+ B2B/B2C leaders
  • •Weekly collaborations with 40 internal stakeholders, including data analysts and directors
  • •Cross-pollinate with thought leaders at IDEO, Accenture, and in New York City start-up spaces
    • Awards
    2017

    Cannes Film Festival Candidacy, Best Short Film Direction, Best Overall Film Script, Silver Tripod Jury Award

    Campus MovieFest at University of South Florida, Co-Director, Co-Writer, Co-Producer of Outlook (2017), short film on domestic violence in the queer Latinx community

    2011

    Wesleyan University, Book Award

    2010

    Hugh O'Brian Young Leaders Award

    2010

    University of Rochester, George Eastman Young Leaders Award

    2005

    USA Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastic Junior Olympian Qualifier 2x

    Conferences
    2022

    Northwestern University, Graduate Women Across Northwestern's Gender Equity in Academic Research Symposium

    Talk Presentation, "Utilizing psychodynamic theory to understand response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Defense analysis of individual and global unconsciouses"
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    2020

    National Organization for Arts in Health, 4th Annual Conference: Making Arts Integral to Health and Wellbeing

    Florida Networking Session Facilitator

    2019

    National Minority Mental Health Summit: Healing While Black

    St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, Healing Group Circles Leader

    2019

    Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice

    Sponsored by The Well for Life LLC, Tallahassee, FL

    2014

    Mozilla Foundation MozFest UK

    London, UK, Art Presentation and Group Facilitation, "Push Your Selfie" or "Selfie-cology: The Selfie as Tool for Self-Inquiry, Intimacy, and Activism"
    Papers
    2023

    "Towards a Culturally-Integrative Psychodynamic Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Model: End-of-Life with the Jewish American Elderly"

    Supervisor Dr. Eric Beeson, Neuroscience in Counseling Lab, Northwestern University
    2016

    "The Design of Anorexia Nervosa: In Search of a Material-Discursive Body within Intra-Active Social Conditions"

    Supervisor: Dr. Diane Price Herndl, USF Department Chair of Women & Gender Studies

    2017

    “Illuminating Perception: Methods and Psychological Implications of Light Technologies on the Internet Artist and Audience”

    Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Sanocki, USF Department of Psychology

    2015

    "Accomplishing humorous awkwardness: Performing traditional masculinities and femininities, heteronormative sexualities, and age-stereotyped identities in ‘Between Two Ferns'"

    Co-Author: Professor Scott Murphy, USF Department of Sociology

    Presented at International Society for Humor Studies Conference, 2015, Oakland, CA

    Professional Associations
    2021 – 2023

    Northwestern University Psychedelics in Counseling

    Co-Founder
    2021 – 2023
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    Grants
    2024

    International Psychotherapy Institute

    200 USD
    2023

    International Psychotherapy Institute

    360 USD
    2023

    Polygon x She-Fi

    500 USD
    2021

    Northwestern University

    10K USD
    2014

    Mozilla UK

    3K USD
    2018

    Pyramid Inc. Arts Center

    1K USD
    Interviews
    2023

    All Counseling, "When The Holidays Aren't Happy Times"

    Public webinar on mental health during the holidays
    2018

    Is USF scaling back and outsourcing victim advocates?

    88.5 WMNF Radio, Tampa, Florida, Activist Representing USF LGBTQ Safe Home

    Certifications
    2022

    CITI Program

    Social / Behavioral Investigators and Key Personnel
    2019 – present

    International Yoga Alliance

    Registered Yoga Teacher, RYT-200
    Artistic Productions, Exhibitions, and Performances
    2023Tampa, FL, USA

    Butoh Intensive with Adam Koan

    Dance member in group work and movement study practices

    2023Tampa, FL, USA

    Congregation Schaarai Zedek

    Rosh Hashanah and Kol Nidre 5784, Choir (alto)
    2022Evanston, IL, USA

    Northwestern University Center for Awareness, Response & Education

    Our Voice, Our Power: Reflections of Resilience, Charles Deering Library, Group Show, Film Photography and Artist Lecture

    2021Brunswick, GA, USA

    Hostel in the Forest

    "Weekend of Wonder" Music and Healing Retreat Host

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    2021Bahamas

    Remedios Sailing Vessel

    Artist-in-Residence

    2020St. Petersburg, FL, USA

    Spitfire Theater

    Improv Comedy Troupe Member

    2019St. Petersburg, FL, USA

    Daddy Kool Records

    Record Store Day Headliners, Music Production

    2019St. Petersburg, FL, USA

    Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum

    1st Annual Tampa Bay Collard Greens Festival, Multicultural Production and Volunteer Coordination

    2019Tampa, FL, USA

    Pyramid, Inc. Performing Arts Center

    Yoga for Resilience in Autism: 6-Week Workshop through the Chakras, Yoga Instructor, Curriculum Designer ($1K Grant)

    2018Tampa, FL, USA

    Tailgate Projects

    Mind Your Body, Group Show, New Media Projection Mapping Performance

    2018St. Petersburg, FL, USA

    OK Transmit! at Duncan McClellan Gallery

    OK Transmit New Media Meetups, Production, Artistic Direction

    2018St. Petersburg, FL, USA

    Morean Arts Center

    Autobiographical Altered Books, Group Show, Painting

    2017Tampa, FL, USA

    Campus MovieFest at University of South Florida

    Outlook (2017), Impromptu Films, Co-Director, Co-Producer, Writer

    2015Miami Beach, FL, USA

    Magnus Application at Art Basel Miami Beach

    Magnus - The "Shazam of Art", Cataloguing, Curation

    2015Tampa, FL, USA

    QUAID Gallery

    Digital Enmeshment at Gamut Space, Group Show, New Media

    2015Stamford, CT, USA

    Franklin Street Works

    It Narratives: The Movement of Objects as Information, Group, New Media

    2014London, UK

    Mozilla MozFest London

    Selfie-cology: The Selfie as Tool for Self-Inquiry, Intimacy, and Activism, Solo, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, New Media, Production ($3K Sponsorship)

    2014Tampa, FL, USA

    USF Contemporary Art Museum

    The Many Faces of Dan, Group Show, Centre Gallery, Painting

    2012New York City, NY, USA

    DIS Art

    Stock Photography Options, Suzanne Geiss Gallery, Production Intern

    2012New York City, NY, USA

    Adobe Systems

    Adobe Cloud Projection: Map The City, Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design, New Media Projection Mapping

    2011Gainesville, FL, USA

    University of Florida College of Fine Arts

    Embodiment of Emotion, WARPHAUS, New Media Installation

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