Ms. Tom has been involved in the social services field since 2007. Most recently she worked with the severely mentally ill population for the last 8 years for the State of Nevada as an emergency department mobile crisis psychiatric assessor, and as a clinical social worker in inpatient psychiatric settings.
She has been a volunteer with the office of suicide prevention since 2019 where she is an ASIST Trained clinician who is also a certified LivingWorks safeTALK Trainer. Additional volunteer work includes teaching the next generation of social workers as a devoted AFI, preceptor, and board approved clinical intern supervisor. Ms. Tom has been an LCSW since 2016 and also holds licenses to decertify legal 2000 holds, and to practice in the school district. Ms. Tom enjoyed her time working at Columbia University (CWRC) with clients experiencing infertility in 2010.
Education:
Master of Social Work Degree (NYU),
Bachelor of Science Degree in Health and Human Services (Touro College NYSCAS valedictorian),
Associates of Science Degree in Health and Human Services (BHCC),
Family Development Credential (Tufts University).
Ms. Tom presented at the 2021 Nevada Suicide Prevention conference ‘Reduction of access to lethal means’. She guest lectured at the psychology department of Nevada State College in spring of 2020, at the UNLV School of Social Work on ‘The Art of Clinical Assessment’ in 2016, presented the topics of ‘The Behavioral Health Model’ & ‘Trauma Informed Care’ to employees of the State of Nevada, and she was a presenter at the Nevada Chapter NASW conference in 2014 on ‘social work leadership’.
Ms. Tom was the principal researcher in designing a youth forensic hospital for the State of Nevada’s southern region.
What People Say
“I typically don’t do this, but I was at a private event and spoke with the director of West Care who stated the recent presentation Mageena Tom gave was fantastic. He would like her to speak at West Care. He thought she was very informative and competent. I thought this was such a nice compliment, I wanted to pass it along to you. It’s wonderful to have such a fantastic representative. Congratulations!”
Dianne Peters, MS, State of Nevada
“I had the pleasure of attending a group therapy session with Mageena. She was extremely confident, competent, honest, open and caring in her approach to leading the group. Her dedication to her job should not go unnoticed.”
JJ, former client
“Mageena is an extremely detail oriented clinician with a lot of intellectual curiosity. She really understands the right questions to ask. She provides a 360 evaluation finding out information that most people don’t ask (psychiatrists included). She genuinely gets excited by her work and finds great emotional fulfillment in diagnosing and educating her clients.”
Dr. Krista Pinard, MD, Psychiatrist
Meema Mental Health Services, LLC 