IMMIGRATION EVALUATIONS:
Alona Wellness Center offers comprehensive immigrant evaluations, including asylum cases, petitions for extreme hardship waivers, domestic violence (VAWA), and U Visa cases.
Michelle Hamilton is a clinical social worker with extensive clinical experience in both the acute care/hospital setting as well as in out-patient clinic settings. She has recently expanded her practice to include immigration evaluations, which has been one of her passions.
Michelle has extensive experience providing biopsychosocial evaluations, diagnostics, and care planning. She also has expertise providing behavioral health services, primarily with teens and adults.
Michelle is a certified trauma therapist with a focus on intergenerational trauma, utilizing trauma-informed care, EMDR, and psychoeducation, among many therapeutic modalities.
Michelle also provides clinical supervision to pre-licensed clinicians and has been a Practicum Instructor for grad students.
If you would like to learn more, please contact our office so that you can schedule a consultation with our provider.
We have staff offering Spanish, Arabic and Russian accessibility.
*Asylum Cases
– Explaining psychological reasons as to why a client may have missed the one-year filing deadline
- Detailing how PTSD/trauma symptoms provide evidence of the persecution an individual has suffered
- Demonstrating a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a specific social group
*Extreme Hardship Cases
– Identifying unique factors contributing to a client’s psychological distress such as: illness, disability, professional, financial, or academic hardship, or adverse country of origin conditions that would negatively affect the petitioner and their family member(s) if forced to separate or relocate
*VAWA Cases
– Detailing the client’s psychological symptoms which are common for victims of domestic violence
- Explaining less common phenomena such as ways in which men are abused by female partners.