Shelli Friess
Dr. Friess completed her doctorate at Argosy University in Counselor Education and Supervision. She earned her Masters from University of Northern Colorado in Community Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family. Most of her experience is in working with victims of domestic violence, as a counselor and counseling program manager. She enjoyed training and working with counselors during her 15 years in that position. She has also worked with offenders of domestic violence on parenting skills. In addition, she has worked with children in elementary and middle school and has experience working with children in residential treatment. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, counselor development and wellness, trauma, and vicarious trauma. Her counselor education experience is strong in crisis response, skill development, vicarious trauma, and field experience. She enjoys the outdoors, fishing, camping, and family.
Courses Taught
CPBL 602L - CMHC Pre-Practicum 2
COUNS 6322S - Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster Response
COUNS 6336 - Crisis, Trauma, and Response
GRSP 602L - Group Lab
CPLB 602L - CMHC pre-Practicim 2
COUNS 6336 - Crisis, Trauma, and Response
CPLB 602L - CMHC Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster Response
COUN 6100 - Introduction to Mental Health Counseling
COUN 6333/8333 - Vicarious Trauma
COUN 6333/8333 - Vicarious Trauma
Education
EdD, Argosy University
MA, University of Northern Colorado
BA, University of Colorado
Public Service
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Board of Directors - Denver
Arapahoe County Domestic Violence Task Force, Committee Member - Littleton
Aurora Family Violence Response Team, Committee Member - Aurora
ay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Domestic Violence, Committee Member - Denver
Children's Advocacy Committee Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Committee Member - Denver
Denver Offender Treatment Alliance, Committee Member - Denver
DV/CPS Coordinating Council, Committee Member - Denver
Victims Are A Priority, Committee Member - Greenwood Village
Lesbian Issues Committee Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, - Denver
Publications
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2014). Agile project management: Managing for success.
Crowder, J., Carbone, J., Friess, S. (2013). Artificial cognition architectures.
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2013). Artificial creativity and self-evolution: Abductive reasoning in artificial life forms. Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2010). Artificial neural diagnostics and prognostics: Self- soothing in cognitive systems. . Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2010). Artificial neural emotions and emotional memory. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2012). Artificial neural sensory/short-term/long-term/emotional memory integration for autonomous AI systems. Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition
Crowder, J., Carbone, J., Friess, S. (2015). Artificial Psychology Revisited: Constructs for Modeling Artificial Emotions. Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2012). Artificial psychology: the psychology of AI. Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2012). Extended metacognition for artificially intelligent systems (AIS): Artificial locus of control and cognitive economy. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2011). Metacognition and metamemory concepts for AI systems. Proceedings of the 13th annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2013). Systems engineering agile design methodologies.
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2011). The artificial prefrontal cortex: artificial consciousness. Proceedings of the 13th annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2014). The Cognitive, Interactive Training Environment (CITE). Proceedings on the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)
Crowder, J., Friess, S. (2012). Warrior resilience training through cognitive self-regulation. Proceedings of the 13th annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Presentations
Friess, S. (2014). Domestic violence victim considerations in mandated reporting. Metro Denver Domestic Violence Alliance
Schossow, B., Friess, S. (2014). Ending the grooming: Drawing open the shades on the private yet deadly phenomenon of intimate partner violence.
Schossow, B., Friess, S. (2015). Ending the grooming: Drawing open the shades on the private yet dedly phenomenon of intimate partner violence.
Friess, S., Frazier, J. (2016). Engaging protective parenting: Child abuse reporting in domestic violence cases when a report must be made.
Piper, D., Friess, S. (2018). Using a systemic resilience model to train self-care with CMHC counseling interns.
Friess, S. (2018). Violence, Trauma, Empathy: Counselor Core Self-Evaluation.