Credentials: CounselorNelson.com - Counseling, Consulting & Training Services

CounselorNelson.com

Counseling, Consulting &
Training Services

Credentials

Mike Nelson, MS, LPC, NCC

Owner
Email: Mike@KeysToSaferSchools.com
Master's level Licensed Professional Counselor

Specialization License - Counselor Supervisor for LAC's
Certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors.
Certified Private Medicaid Provider
Certified AIDS Counselor
Certified CPI
Certified in Keys to Excellent's Cognitive Restructuring Curriculum

Mr. Nelson, MS, LPC, NCC is an well-known International Training who has trained extensively in Europe, Canada, and the United States on Violence Prevention, Intervention and Detection. He has received notoriety on TV, radio (like the BBC), newspaper and other media outlets for his work with School violence/Shooting and his work with Serious Offender Juveniles. He has trained staff of School Violence/Shootings, like SRO, Administrators, Counselors, Mental Health, Juvenile Probation and Other Youth orientated Organizations.
He is a highly specialized Counselor and a Supervisor of Counselors. He maintains a Counseling-Therapy caseload where he provides professional therapy services to out-of-control individuals. Mr. Nelson, MS, LPC, NCC is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Supervision Specialization and under this specialization he provides Supervisor Services to Licensed Associate Counselors. Mr. Nelson has worked with Parents who have lost children in School Shootings and through other forms of violence.
Mr. Nelson's consulting expertise thrives in helping Organizations like School, Business, Courts, Law Enforcement and other agencies Prevent, Intervene and/or Detect Violence before it Erupts in a School, Business, Agency or Community. Integration back to a less restrictive environment is another area of expertise, whether it is from Incarceration Facility to Public School, Psychiatric Facility to Public School or other transitions.

Experience in:

Current Clinical Director for North AR Facilities
Current State Director of School-Based Mental Health Services for AR
Past Director of School-Based Mental Health Services for 5 Counties
Past Clinical Director of a Residential Facility for Court Ordered Adolescents
Past Director of Program Development for a Tri-County Community Mental Health Center.
Past Assistant Director of Youth Services for a Tri-County Community Mental Health Center.
Clinical work with serious offender juveniles and families
Clinical Therapy with Act 911, those pleading Insanity for violent crimes.
Clinical Therapy with Paroled Sex Offenders
Clinical expert witness for many Child Abuse Court Cases.
Clinical consulting with public schools for Serious Emotional Disturbed Students
Clinical work with AIDS Patients
Public schools consulting.
Has worked with parents of school shooting victims, law enforcement officer (ex. Officer who shot student in El Cajon, California, at Granite Hills High School.) , Superintendent at Schools involved in School Shootings (ex. Superintendent of Schools in Pearl, Mississippi) teachers, students, and more.
Expansion & development of Teen Courts, Truancy programs, electronic monitoring of delinquent juveniles, and more.

Creation of suspension/expulsion programs in school districts
Therapy services with victims of a Tornado
Development of behavioral components in Behavioral Classrooms, Alternative Schools, Sanction School, School-based & Non-School based Day Treatment Programs.
Workings of Juvenile Justice system in the State of Arkansas & other states

Prior member of Youth Services Providers Association of Arkansas and chaired a committee charged with the development of State Standards for mental health care of youth by the Division of Youth Services.
Private Medicaid Eligibility
Grant Writing, Program Development, Medicaid revenue maximization
Certified in a Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juveniles
Certified in CPI, a physical restraint technique
Military Disaster Relief when a Titan II Missile explode in AR
Military Training - Air Force

Specialized Training:

Specialization License as a Supervisor of new Mental Health Therapist's (LAC)
Specialization in School-Based Mental Health Services
Positive Approaches to Solving Severe Behavioral Problems
Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juvenile in corrections institutions
Identifying Gangs and intervention skills
Training in Physical Intervention Skills (Therapeutic Hold Techniques)
Identifying and treating Sexual Abuse victims
Treatment approaches for ADHD/ADD
Treatment of PTSD and other anxiety disorders
De-escalation Techniques
AIDS Counseling Training
Safe Management of Bomb threats
Management of Assaultive Behavior
Managing Anger & Aggression of Children

Expert Guest Speaker:

A featured speaker and trainer in a Japanese Documentary sponsored by Japan Ministry of Education on Youth Violence in Japan.
A featured speaker on FOX NEWS with Sabrina Steger, Mother of Kayce Steger, a school shooting victim at Paducah, Kentucky.
A featured speaker on numerous other TV shows discussing "Kids coping with 911", "Dealing with the Santana High School Shooting", "Tips to remaining safe from the NY Beltway Sniper", and more...
Featured on BBC Radio "Up All Night" out of London discussing the sentencing of the Santana High School shooter.
On numerous other Radio Shows discussing "Identifying the Potentially Dangerous Student" (one radio show - RealPlay or Mpg), "How to Stop Bullying in Schools", "What can parents do to keep their student safe in school", and much more...