qualifications & professional experience

Finley M. Terhune
(916) 877–4745 | FINLEY@UNIQUE-OUTCOMES.ORG

Experience 

FINLEY M TERHUNE MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY INC | JULY 2021 –  PRESENT

∙ Provide therapeutic services to both private pay and insurance carrying clients

∙ Focus on working with transgender youth, as well as other transgender and LGBQIA+ individuals

∙ Manage and complete all administrative and related business protocols 

∙ Provide individualized, one on one clinical training for Narrative Therapy / Queer Informed  Narrative Therapy 

∙ Network and maintain/grow referral network of local therapists who are trained and competent in  areas that I also have a specialty in (e.g. consensual non-monogamy, kink/BDSM, transgender  youth) to foster a more robust and developed network of clinicians to co-ordinate with when  important for a variety of reasons

FINLEY TERHUNE, LMFT | PRIVATE PRACTICE | AUGUST 2019 –  AUGUST 2021

COUNSELING PROGRAM MANAGER | GENDER HEALTH CENTER | APRIL 1, 2017 ‐ MARCH 2019

∙ Develop, implement, run, and support every aspect of the Counseling Program

∙ Recruit, interview, hire, and manage 25-32 mental health interns and volunteers at any given time 

∙ Train on HIPAA compliance, institute best practices around management of confidential information  (written and verbal)  

∙ Manage assignment of supervisors to mental health clinicians in school placements

∙ Manage all contracts with all schools who have students in placement with us at any given time 

∙ Actively participate in the evaluation and roll out of the California Reducing Disparities Project 

∙ Create and refine programming for the Mental Health Program 

∙ Create and refine all program specific documentation, forms, systems, policies, et cetera 

∙ Provide clinical consultation and referrals 

∙ Provide direct therapy to a small caseload and complete all related tasks 

∙ Case management, primarily for families with trans identified youth 

∙ Recruit, hire, and train volunteer supervisors, and students in placement 

∙ Manage the scheduling and time of the Clinical Director 

∙ Collaborate across departments: Health Care Services, Harm Reduction, Intake, Community Support,  Respite, et cetera 

∙ Bring up to standard and maintain legal and ethical regulations and obligations of entire Counseling  Program 

∙ Provide personal and professional support to students during their placements 

∙ Perform audits of both supervisors and students in placements as quality control, in order to  identify and develop support plans for individuals who may need it, temporarily or long-term 

∙ Engage in project development and deployment, regardless of program 

∙ Foster a community culture of feedback across the agency, although focused in the Counseling  Program

∙ For more specifics, please ask and I will be happy to provide both a more comprehensive job  description 

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM ASSISTANT | GENDER HEALTH CENTER | MAY 13, 2016 – APRIL, 1 2017 

∙ Provided support for the Director of Mental Health programming at Gender Health Center,  including: 

– creating a centralized resource and procedure manual in wiki format 

– re-evaluation and re-designing all necessary forms for the Mental Health Program – Performing independent mental health evaluations 

– Providing letters of support to community members seeking transgender care related medical  services 

– Providing support and training to student clinicians 

– Designing more long-term solutions to the rapid organizational expansion the program has seen – Performing physical file audit for the entire agency as part of the transition to digital record  keeping 

– Serving as point person for counselors/trainees/interns for the conversion to a digital filing  system, as well as other agency-related technology 

– Helping to design and carry out a thorough evaluation of the mental health program, focusing  heavily on community perspectives with regard to what's working, what isn't, and what needs to be  happening.  

– Provide outreach support to trans youth in local schools 

– Partner with and offer training for schools (K-12) on cultural competency for the transgender  youth populations, as well as how to develop and build their own responsive, appropriate, and  aware programs and opportunities for youth 

MFT/PCC TRAINEE | GENDER HEALTH CENTER | SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 – MAY 31, 2016
∙ Providing individual, couples, and family psychotherapy to a wide variety of clients, with a  multitude of gender identities, sexual identities, classes, races, and lived experiences.  

∙ Attend group supervision, both individual and group, for case consultation and guidance.  

∙ Maintain all records and documentation up to date and in compliance with BBS standards 

NIGHT AND WEEKEND SUPERVISOR III | UCD, SHIELDS LIBRARY | NOV 2, 2012 – MARCH 3, 2016 

∙ Supervise students on shift during nights and weekends when no other staff were present in  building 

∙ Assign and delegate projects as appropriate 

∙ Complete projects as appropriate 

∙ Help to evaluate our duties and revise them to be more efficient and effective 

∙ Evaluate emergency situations (fire, earthquake, water damage, assault, et cetera) and act quickly  and appropriately to take appropriate action as laid out in our emergency policies with regard to  who and in what order to contact management, and/or bring in other parties such as the security  guard and/or the campus police 

∙ Evaluated the Circulation Department policies and procedures – both emergency and general – and  provided recommendations and alterations to bring it up to date for review and approval by the  President of the library and management below them 

∙ Interview, hire, and train students of a wide variety of ages, lived experiences, and diverse  backgrounds 

∙ Keep a daily log of activity, from nothing important to police case numbers and incident  descriptions 

∙ Manage emotional and physical crises that arose, both in student employees and library patrons 

∙ Designed, implemented, and trained for a resource and intervention program for individuals  experiencing violence (usually relational) based in Circulation as a non-threatening and/or  unexpected and unobtrusive method of seeking support 

Professional Memberships, Associations, & Certifications

∙ Licensed MFT 112607

∙ Registered APCC 3707 

∙ CAMFT member since 2014 

∙ Introductory Narrative Therapy Certificate 

∙ Intensive Narrative Therapy Seminar Certificate 

Professional Presentations, Posters, Publications, Etc. 

∙ WORKING WITH TRANSGENDER AND LGBQA+ YOUTH – A Workshop for Clinicians in a Community  Practice Setting (David Nylund and Finley Terhune, November 1, 2017) 

∙ GENDERQUEER YOUTH: Learning From Their Narratives (Workshop  at 8th Annual Evidence-Based  Practices Symposium, “Building Lives Beyond Trauma” (David Nylund and Finley Terhune, April 5,  2018) 

∙ BULLYING AND MENTAL HEALTH – workshop at No Time To Lose: A Professional Conference to Activate  Change for LGBTQ Youth (Finley Terhune and Jessica Wharton, April 27, 2018) 

∙ TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: Unique Considerations -  SVC-CAMFT 3000 Pre-Licensed Club Meeting (Finley Terhune, June 1, 2018) 

∙ TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING YOUTH 101/102: For Camp Settings (Finley Terhune, June 20,  2018) 

∙ LGBT History Month 2018 (Guest blog post at SacWellness, Finley Terhune, October 23, 2018) 

∙ KINKING YOUR THINKING: BDSM AND MENTAL HEALTH (Finley Terhune at Sex PositiviTea, May 11, 2019) 

∙ WORKING WITH NON-BINARY IDENTIFIED CLIENTS (Finley Terhune at SVC-CAMFT Pre-Licensed Meeting,  June 4, 2019) 

∙ WRITING THE SUPPORT LETTER: Assessing and Planning for Gender Affirming Procedures (Finley Terhune and David Nylund at Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department (SCCBHSD), May 21, 2021,  June 25, 2021, & November 19th, 2021)

∙ WRITING THE SUPPORT LETTER - Advanced: Considerations forAssessing “Readiness” for  Gender Affirming Procedures (Finley Terhune and David Nylund for Bay Area Community Health (BACH), Part I: September 23, 2022; Part II: Sep 30, 2022

- WRITING THE SUPPORT LETTER: Assessing and Planning for Gender Affirming Procedures (Finley Terhune and David Nylund at Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department (SCCBHSD), October 21, 2022)

-BUILDING BLOCKS:  Best Practices of Supporting and Working With and Supporting Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Young People(Finley Terhune at  Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) Spring 2023 Counselors Spring Institute,  March 24 2023)

-OUTSIDER WITNESS PRACTICES (Finley Terhune at Sutter Health Foundation, May 5, 2023) 

-WRITING THE SUPPORT LETTER: Assessing and Planning for Gender Affirming Procedures (Finley Terhune and David Nylund at Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department (SCCBHSD), May 19, 2023)

Education 

M.A. COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY | MAY 2016 | UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

B.A. ANTHROPOLOGY | JULY 2011 | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 

FOCUS: ARCHAEOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN QUEER THEORY

EDUCATIONAL RECOGNITION AND AWARDS 

∙ FORD FOUNDATION ALUMNI SCHOLAR | JULY 2016 - CURRENT | WWW.TFFF.ORG 

∙ FORD FOUNDATION GRADUATE SCHOLAR | AUGUST 2014 – JULY 2016 | WWW.TFFF.ORG 

∙ UC DAVIS STAFF SCHOLAR | 2013 | ONE-TIME SCHOLARSHIP FOR “OUTSTANDING STAFF” 

∙ FORD FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLAR | AUGUST 2007 – JULY 2011 | WWW.TFFF.ORG