Carol Miles MSW, LCSW
Primary Office Address:
110 East Seventh Avenue, Covington, LA 70433
Additional Office Address: 1426 Amelia Street, New Orleans, LA
Phone:
Email:
(985) 893-1248
cmiles@tulane.edu
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
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Thirty years experience and achievement as a clinical social worker
Six years working in a university counseling center
Sixteen years of teaching social work interns in various field placements
Managerial experience in multiple settings
Public and professional speaking
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Clinical Social Worker, private practice
Covington, and New Orleans
July 1994 – present
General clinical practice with individual, marital, family and group psychotherapy for children, adolescents
and adults. Special expertise in the areas of eating disorders, Dialectical Behavioral Skills groups, EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Available for lectures on a variety of subjects.
Adjunct Faculty, Tulane University School of Social Work
New Orleans, LA
January 1998 – current
Part-time position teaching a foundation course for master’s level students introducing a wide range of
theories and models of social work practice.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Staff Social Worker, Loyola University Counseling Center
New Orleans, LA
Jan. 1997 – Aug. 2003
Part-time position with a clinical caseload of university students and employees, presentations to staff and
supervising Tulane and LSU School of Social Work students field placements at Loyola.
Instructor, Tulane University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
New Orleans and Covington, LA
January 1988 - July 1994
Faculty group practice N.O. and Covington. General clinical practice with individual, marital, family and
group psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults. Field Instructor for Tulane School of Social Work
interns. Team-taught medical students interviewing skills. Subcontracted with John Kerschbaum BCSW
with the Washington Parish Office of Community Services sexual abuse treatment program working with
pre-adolescent girls and their families in individual and group therapy.
August 1994 through January 1995 and August 1993 through May 1994 - Contracted part-time with the St.
Tammany Parish School System as a Mental Health Provider, providing individual and group therapy for
students grades K - 9th.
Clinical Consultant, St. Tammany Youth Service Bureau
Covington and Slidell, LA
June 1995 – July 1999
Part-time position clinically supervising masters level social workers, and graduate level social work students
in their field placements from various schools of Social Work, working with juveniles and their families in a
first time offenders diversionary program and the 22nd Judicial District's Families in Need of Services
Program (FINS) for St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, as well as self-referral counseling cases.
Program development and community networking, an essential part of the FINS program, coordinated with
the Program Director and the Executive Director.
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Legislative Liaison
Association for Clinical Social Work Providers
April 1997– June 1997
Part-time position as the liaison between the ACSWP (now known as the Louisiana Association of Clinical
Social Workers), their professional lobbyists and the State Legislature, protecting clinical social work
providers with regard to state legislation.
Director of Outpatient and Social Services,
DePaul Northshore Hospital, Covington, LA
April 1986 - Dec. 1987
Supervision of staff inpatient and outpatient social workers and graduate social work students in field
placement; individual, marital, family and group inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy caseload of
approximately 20 hours per week; community psycho-educational programs; marketing and referral
development; and program development in coordination with multi-disciplinary management staff.
Private Practice
Covington and Slidell, LA
January 1987 - December 1987
Part-time private practice. Facilitator for monthly support groups for the Epilepsy Council. Outpatient
individual, marital and family psychotherapy for Maxicare Psychiatry in Covington and Slidell.
Director of Community Services Program,
DePaul Hospital
Covington and Slidell, LA
January 1983 - May 1986
Individual, marital, family and group outpatient psychotherapy; emergency intakes; management and
supervision; referral development and community education through public speaking and in-house
publications.
EDUCATION:
M.S.W. from Louisiana State University – 1981 Baton Rouge, LA
B.S. in General Studies from Louisiana State University - 1978 Baton Rouge, LA
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
Louisiana State Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers, #1845
EMDRIA Certified in EMDR
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Louisiana Association of Clinical Social Workers
Member since 1990
Board Member since 2000
Board President July 2007-July 2009
National Association of Social Workers
Member since 1981
Parents for Public Schools, St. Tammany Parish (Founder 1992)
Board of Directors -1992 to 1995
President 1994 -1995
Parents for Public Schools, National Board
Board of Directors - 1996 to 2003
Youth Service Bureau of St. Tammany Parish
Honorary Board of Directors – 1999 to current
Board of Directors - 1983 to 1995
Chairperson ChefSoiree Fund-raiser - 1989
Parenting Center of West St. Tammany
Board of Directors - 1988 to 1992
Chairperson Monster Mash Fund-raiser – 1990
EMDRIA
Member since 2007
Conference Committee since 2011
REFERENCES:
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Ronald Marks Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W
Lisa Lipsey MSW, LCSW
Dean, Tulane School of Social Work
Board, LABSWE