Consulting Bio

Lucy (Beth) Powell, LCSW, helps human services organizations and educational institutions deliver services to their target populations more effectively and efficiently.  

Since 1990, Beth has successfully and professionally worked for and consulted with educational institutions and human services organizations in Texas and in Mississippi.  She has the experience and the expertise to help with the details of your service provision needs. 

–Want to benefit from a seasoned technical writer and program designer to create, proof, or update the written materials you provide your staff and recipients?  Beth has written curricula for grant programs at Biloxi, MS Public Schools, Houston, TX Community College and Lone Star Montgomery, TX Community College. 

–You could profit from a professional educator, a seasoned trainer and a passionate speaker who specializes in traumatized/stressed families and children.  Beth teaches from the experiences she has lived.  She has trained TX and MS CPS case workers, mental health professionals, HEADSTART employees, CASA volunteers and teachers and administrators from various educational settings.

— Organizations and educational settings need a qualified, experienced mediator and meditator trainer such as Beth to help resolve interpersonal disputes, prevent and/or reduce staff conflict, teach better communication skills or offer supportive counseling for employees.  Beth has written and published mediation manuals and has designed conflict management curricula and programs within educational and social services systems.  She self-published a restitutional mediation manual to help parents and other caregivers teach atonement, putting others first, and altruism to foster and adopted children:  https://infamilyservices.com/manuals-powerpoints-and-videos/

–You would benefit by having Beth supervise human service or social work interns in their field placements at your organization.  Beth is an experienced field placement supervisor and was a social work LCSW Supervisor and CEU provider in Texas.

Your caseworkers and volunteers need support, care for the caregiver, guidance, affirmation, and facilitated case staffing opportunities to prevent burnout and maintain optimal job performance from an experienced and expert psychotherapist, social worker, teacher, mediator and certified yoga teacher.   Beth is that professional.

–Does your organization need a program designed for war, disaster, traumatic loss, or violence-traumatized refugees that utilize lay health care workers as the primary or community mental health support providers?  Beth knows how to do this. 

Beth has good fluency in Spanish.  While she was working on her Master’s Degree in Social Work in the late 1980’s in Houston, Texas, Beth designed and executed a war-refugee-related post-traumatic stress disorder program for The Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN).  During that time period, she also designed and executed the ESL literacy component for the Amnesty Program at Houston Community College. 

She has traveled to Mexico to support orphanage workers and train local service professionals in the delivery of lay mental health services to children without parents.  Over the years, she has assessed immigrants’ mental health states who are applying for amnesty or residency in America and worked with immigration attorneys to do so. 

Beth continues to train and offer trauma-informed mental health services to those who work closely with traumatized children and parents regardless of how the trauma has occurred.  Be it due to disaster, war, impoverishment, death of a loved one, or abuse and neglect, Beth is highly experienced.