Jan Brewer
LCSW-C
Jan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 27 years of experience in direct clinical practice as well as other community-based services. As a passionate and experienced clinician, she finds inspiration in the advancement of overall wellness for individuals, families and couples, and their communities. Jan's strength-based and integrated approach in trauma-informed care is efficacious, compassionate, and innovative.
Jan has extensive career experience providing therapeutic services to children, adolescents, families, caregivers, and couples within a variety of populations. Settings in which she has delivered services include military installations, schools (private/public, colleges), medical facilities, public mental health to include infant-toddlers' programs, public safety agencies (law enforcement/corrections, fire/rescue), and court-related services (custody, co-parenting, victim services).
Jan has bachelor's degrees in social work and emergency health services (UMBC), a master's degree in clinical social work (UMB), and a postgraduate certificate in Treating Traumatized Adolescence (UMB). She is also a Maryland Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical Board Approved Supervisor who enjoys providing consultations and support to practitioners, peer mentoring and consultations, and is a therapy preceptor for psychiatric nurse practitioners during their therapy rotation.
Jan has earned the following certifications: the Ferentz Institute in Advance Trauma Treatment Graduate Level 1 & 2; Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP); certified therapist in Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART); certified Maryland State Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Interface Master Presenter; QPR Gatekeeper Suicide Interventionist, and Professional Crisis Management (PCM) - Practitioner 1. Jan held certifications as a certified level 1 firefighter and emergency medical technician (EMT).
Jan is an ardent learner, valuing education as a critical resource to being an effective therapist; hence, her practice modalities include: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT), Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy, Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM – Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell/UMBC), Trauma and Loss in Children (Dr. Carlton Munson/UMB) and modalities from somatic and expressive therapies.
Areas of Specialization
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Acute Stress
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ADHD
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Anxiety (including ranges of panic)
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Attachment
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Compassion Fatigue
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Complex PTSD
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Grief and Non-normative Grief
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Parent – Infant Bonding
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Parenting/Co-Parenting
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Perinatal and Postpartum Depression
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Trainings & Consultations
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Vicarious Traumatization and Resilience