Hallie Orton
Minneapolis
Summary
Hallie is a Pediatric Clinical Social Worker with proven expertise in assessing clients and organizing effective intervention plans. Meet client needs through smooth coordination of key resources and program referrals. Work well with school system, doctors and other professionals to implement and manage solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Pediatric Social Worker & Psychotherapist
MN Epilepsy Group
04.2023 - Current
- Provide psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and young adults who have functional neurologic disorders, chronic illnesses, trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
- Provide inpatient mental health consultations and crisis assessments and interventions.
- Case management for patients admitted to the hospital and for patients in our outpatient clinic.
- Developed and reviewed service plans in consultation with clients and performed follow-ups assessing quantity and quality of services provided.
Eating Disorder Recovery Coach
Charis Eating Disorder Care
01.2025 - Current
- Provided one-on-one coaching to individuals of all ages recovering from eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, and orthorexia.
- Collaborated with therapists, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive, coordinated care.
- Utilized evidence-based strategies including CBT and FBT-informed coaching techniques and HAES (Health at Every Size) principles.
- Fostered a safe, nonjudgmental environment that promoted body neutrality, self-compassion, and intuitive eating.
- Guided clients in setting and tracking recovery goals, building sustainable habits, and identifying triggers.
- Led recovery support groups focused on body image, self-esteem, and nutrition education.
Child Victim & Family Advocate
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Coordinate care with a multidisciplinary team that may include medical professionals, members of law enforcement, and child protective services to provide resources to families as they navigate the judicial system to seek justice, protection, and healing from child maltreatment.
- Assist families as they complete orders for protection or harassment restraining orders and help them create comprehensive safety plans.
- Implement case management and care coordination to ensure seamless care.
- Counseled individuals, groups, families, or communities about mental health, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, child care, or medical care.
- Liaised between students, homes, schools, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors and other contacts to help children facing disabilities, abuse, and poverty.
Program Therapist (Intern)
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Conduct diagnostic assessments to assess for level of care, and create individualized, culturally responsive treatment plans for patients.
- Provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy to patients and their caregivers.
- Case management and care coordination to ensure a seamless transition as patients step up or down levels of care.
- Utilize an array of therapeutic modalities to provide psychodynamic psychological education to patients and their families.
Patient Services Coordinator
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Coordinating care for patients with complex conditions requiring a multidisciplinary team.
- Conducted new patient intakes, registered patients, and obtained health insurance information and consent forms.
- Fulfilling prior authorizations.
- Serving as a guide for all resources within the hospital.
- Providing culturally competent patient care to a diverse patient population.
- Support all clinical staff within all departments to ensure their ability to focus on providing high-quality patient care.
Forensic Service Specialists
CornerHouse
08.2020 - 05.2021
- Maintain a person-centered, trauma-informed environment for clients before and following their forensic interview.
- Support the forensic interview process by assessing and responding to client needs and conveying information to forensic interviewers, family services, and investigators.
- Conduct intakes, communicating with referring investigators to gather case information, and schedule forensic interview appointments.
- Document forensic interviews through video recording and monitoring the recording process.
- Engage in data-collection activities, documentation, and tracking.
- Develop and carry out special projects (such as community needs assessments, information sharing, research, and others based on agency requests).
- Communicate and collaborate with CornerHouse team members in Forensic Services, Family Services, and Training teams and with external multidisciplinary team partners, including law enforcement investigators, child/adult protection investigators, prosecutors, advocates, medical providers, mental health providers, and others.
- Engage with individuals and families representing a range of backgrounds, identities, abilities, and experiences.
Education
Master of Social Work -
St. Catherine University
05.2023
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Social Work
North Central University
05.2021
Skills
- Providing trauma-informed, strengths-based, client-centered, culturally responsive care to patients and their families
- Critical thinking and psychosocial assessment and intervention skills
- Crisis Management and Intervention
- Conducting diagnostic assessments and creating individualized treatment plans
- Knowledge and understanding of a large range of medical and behavioral health diagnoses and treatment
LICSW pending
- Hallie is currently a Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW) in Minnesota and has completed her supervised practice. Hallie is currently waiting for the Board of Social Work to approve her to take her LICSW exam.
Timeline
Eating Disorder Recovery Coach
Charis Eating Disorder Care
01.2025 - Current
Pediatric Social Worker & Psychotherapist
MN Epilepsy Group
04.2023 - Current
Program Therapist (Intern)
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
09.2022 - 05.2023
Child Victim & Family Advocate
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
06.2022 - 06.2023
Patient Services Coordinator
Children's Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
05.2021 - 06.2022
Forensic Service Specialists
CornerHouse
08.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Social Work
North Central University
Master of Social Work -
St. Catherine University
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