Vanessa Holm is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is currently working at Pacific Clinics as the Manager of Clinical Foundations, Developer in the Learning & Development Department.  Pacific Clinics Clinical Foundations Skills Development Program was developed in collaboration with PracticeWise and is our Managing & Adapting Practices (MAP) Model of training direct service providers, evidenced informed clinical decision-making, and direct service tools.  Clinical Foundations Trainings have a total of six Modules including four of which that cover: Disruptive Behavior, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma.

During the past seven years, she has held various positions at Pacific Clinics including Program Manager of Wraparound, and Clinical Program Manager of Success First, an early Wraparound framework in which she managed contracts and teams, provided clinical and administrative supervision, and trained employees in a variety of topics such as: Active Shooter, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessments (CANS), Crisis Intervention, and Safety Planning. Vanessa is an advocate and passionate about ensuring trauma-informed practices are integrated into agency policies, practices, and trainings. She participates in Pacific Clinics Trauma-Informed Leadership Committee (TLC) and Trauma-Informed Learning Team (TILT).

Over the past two decades, Vanessa has worked in a variety of clinical settings which include non-profit organizations where she has provided direct services to clients and families, oversight for a variety of contracts, trained team members in direct service and skill development, and provided clinical supervision. She assisted service members and their families as an independent contractor with the government as a Crisis Response Supervisor for the Navy at the Fleet and Family Support Center in San Diego, California. Vanessa worked as an Emergency Response Social Worker with the Department of Children and Family Services investigating referrals of allegations of child abuse and neglect.  Her areas of knowledge and expertise include: training and trainer development, adoption, trauma, child abuse, crisis intervention, and domestic violence. Vanessa received her Master of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino.