Bloom Development is led by me — Molly Ruzicka. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 14 years of clinical experience working in private and public agencies. After seven years of direct client service in a county behavioral health bureau, I was promoted to Supervisor and led a clinical team serving adults with serious mental illness. I received in-depth training in Motivational Interviewing (MI), an approach developed to help clients resolve ambivalence and recover from harmful, addictive behaviors, of all types. I provided guidance to clinicians who did this dual recovery work.

In 2006, I began a series of trainings with Pia Mellody — six, in total. She is the author of three books and a workbook sharing her journey, research, findings and treatment approach. I was forever changed by the way Pia explained the complex issues of childhood trauma from a relational perspective and then distilled the patterns into a ground-breaking treatment roadmap for practitioners and healers. I participated in her post-training conference calls to troubleshoot complex cases. As so many are, I am forever grateful to Pia Mellody for her many contributions to the recovery community.

I began using Pia’s model and trainings with clients who had suffered profound relational trauma in their families of origin in both individual therapy and groups. I ran two groups a week for more than ten years. I helped clients recognize how their family histories had adversely affected their well-being and impacted their interpersonal functioning. Over that time, clients experienced ah-ha moments, gained insight, improved their relationship skills, designed coping skills, recovered, healed and expanded their peer and social supports. So many of them reached their ultimate goal: Establishing and maintaining healthier, more fulfilling, connected and successful relationships, of all types.

I watched clients BLOOM!

And while most adults do not live with profound relational trauma, many had less-than-nurturing childhood experiences and today suffer with low self-esteem, social isolation, anxiety, physical illness secondary to dis-ease, diminished functioning and depression.

By providing psychoeducation in an attuned, compassionate, experienced and understanding way, I help clients heal!

Education

Master of Social Work (MSW)

San Jose State University, 2006

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration (BS)

San Francisco State University, 1994

Certificate in Alcohol & Drug Counseling

UC Berkeley Extension Program, 2001

Post Induction Therapy

The Meadows with P. Mellody, 2007

Inner Child Intensive

The Meadows with P. Mellody and S. Bridge, 2013

The Office