Psychotherapist resume examples

• Effectively deescalate and prevent crises via providing crisis counseling to persons with developmental disabilities and co-occurring mental illness.
  
• Achieved consistently accurate assessment of risk and protective factors for persons in crisis.
• Maintaining and growing positive relationships with Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division colleagues and external collaborators.
• Increased staff knowledge and capabilities by providing training and supervision. 

• Providing individual and group therapy effectively increasing client's capacity to live more independently and better understand and cope with mental illness.
• Supported a number of patients in achieving stability and improved mental health.
• Collaborating with Case Western Medical School to launch Assertive Community Treatment model leading to improved care and outcomes for client's served.
• Effective assessment and treatment of co-occurring AODA disorders.

• Providing Cognitive Behavioral, Solutions Based and Mindfulness Based therapies to support clients in achieving growth and improved mental health.
• Accurate diagnosing of mental health conditions and level of functioning for clients and external agencies.
• Consistent success in fostering culturally competent therapeutic alliances.
• Increasing graduate students knowledge base and clinical skills by providing training and co-therapy experiences.

• Supervising, training and supporting over fifty staff providing care to children in residential treatment program.
• Increased accuracy of tracking individual clinical outcomes and program efficacy leading to improved inter-disciplinary communication and care.
• Improved the scale and scope of therapeutic programming and quality of care leading to improvements in children's mental health.

• Support clients navigating internal and external social, physical and mental health services.
• Providing group therapy to increase client's capacity to live more independently and better understand and cope with mental illness.
• Supported a number of patients in achieving stability and improved mental health.
• Collaborated law enforcement and legal system to ensure client commitments and stipulations followed ensuring public and client safety.

• Successfully developed and implemented plans of care for new and existing residents coping with complex behavioral health challenges.

• Coaching and development of staff resulting in increased employee knowledge base, morale and quality of care provided.
• Consistent effective and empathetic communication in building relationships and achieving goals with a wide range of professionals, family members, managed care organization representatives and clients.

• Supported persons coping with drug and alcohol addiction in achieving and maintaining freedom from addiction.
• Identified and implemented cost saving measures resulting in an annual savings of over two hundred thousand dollars, while providing equal or better services.
• Used positive oriented cognitive behavioral approach in supporting a number of clients in making and sustaining healthier lifestyle choices.
• Effectively utilized evidence based screening and assessments tools to identify and initiate treatment for depression, dementia and substance abuse.
• Identification and successful resolution of various forms of abuse resulting in improved quality of life for clients.

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• Performed comprehensive psychological testing of adults and children coping with brain injuries and psychiatric illnesses to increase medical, behavioral, and educational team's insight and effectiveness.
• Helped create behavioral and therapeutic strategies with treatment teams and families to increase quality of life and behavioral health both at hospital and generalized into discharge environment.
• Provided individual and group therapies to measurably increase pro-social and healthy behaviors.
• Co-authored and presented case study at 2008 convention of The Association for Behavioral Analysis International.
• Performed IQ testing and created behavioral interventions contributing to presentations.
• Both aforementioned efforts contributed to successful symposium presented by Lakeview Hospital.

• Provided Errorless therapy for children with autism which increased social, language, and self help skills.
• Helped create behavioral and therapy strategies with therapy teams and parents.
• Received Therapist of the Month award. 

• Worked with a wide range of developmentally disabled participants in a fun and enriching person centered day program, with the setting and meeting of individual goals.
• Successfully supported equestrian therapy.
• Supported persons with disabilities in volunteering at the Wisconsin Humane Society.
• Collaborated effectively with co-workers and outside providers such as guardians, social workers, psychologists, and physicians on to improve participants' lives. 

• Trained officers and soldiers in chemical and biological defense and land navigation in both classroom and field environments.
• Performed maintenance and inventory control on a company size stock of radio-logical and chemical equipment.
• Received US Army Fitness Medal.

• Graduated in top ten percent of Chemical Operations School focusing on protecting military and civilian populations from nuclear, chemical and biological dangers.
• Completed joint U.S. and German Chemical Reconnaissance School focusing on use of mass spectrometers radiological and biological testing equipment in preparation for Operation Desert Storm.
• Received Army Commendation medal for service while on active duty.

• Collected and analyzed data on individual clients using records, tests, interviews and professional sources.
• Consulted with clients when developing long term treatment plan goals and objectives.
• Counseled clients to help them understand and overcome personal, social and behavioral problems.

• Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to treatment.
• Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
• Developed and implemented treatment plans and modified when needed.
• Directed family-centered, strengths-based, culturally competent and individualized intakes and assessments.
• Connected clients with community service and resource agencies.

Overseeing and directing the activities and programs of the hospice, providing services to adults, children, and adolescents.

Coordinating services with other company programs to represents the clinical programs on special projects as well as serving as liaison to the medical council.

Providing clinical oversight and administrative leadership for all social work staff, ensuring that units meet all appropriate standards.

Educating clients about death and dying processes and provide grief counseling, as well as completing psychosocial assessments of patients and their families, particularly as it pertains to end-of-life issues.

Regularly visiting and providing support, resources, and counseling to patients and families receiving hospice services.

Completing diagnostic assessments and providing individual and family therapy to persons living in nursing homes

Collaborating with all other health providers caring for the individuals to provide the best care possible.

Expanding the organization\\'s capabilities by being the first employee to provide teletherapy to clients.

Working together with a PhD psychologist, a psychiatrist and the nursing home staff to provide the best care possible.

Providing clinical oversight for social work staff.

Completing psychosocial assessments of patients and their families particularly as it pertains to end of life issues.

Regularly visiting and providing support, resources, and counseling to patients and families receiving hospice services.

Educating clients about death and dying processes, as well as providing grief counseling.

Completing psychosocial assessments of patients mainly on the senior care unit.

Providing individual, family, and group therapy.

Collaborating with interdisciplinary treatment team, community agencies, and providers to develop treatment and discharge planning.

Supervising, planning, coordinating, providing leadership, and directing the administrative and clinical activities for four outpatient mental health clinics using an open access model through the use of teletherapy.

Providing clinical oversight and administrative leadership for seven psychotherapists, one psychiatrist, one nurse practitioner, one physician assistant, one L.V.N., and six administrative assistants.

Ensuring daily that the persons being served are properly triaged and getting the services they need in a timely and appropriate manner.

Developing and implementing policies and quality improvement procedures for the agency.

Providing direct clinical services including individual therapy, triaging, and crisis intervention.

Liaising with county behavioral health and other community partners to build collaborative resources.

Teaching crisis intervention training to local law enforcement officers and first responders.

Participating and collaborate in community events and committees in order to better serve our clients and community.

Performing psychosocial assessments, treatments, and discharge planning of patients withsevere and persistent mental illness and substance abuse issues.

Providing clinical oversight and administrative leadership for 15 clinical social workers when regular supervisor is absent.

Working with an interdisciplinaryteam of professionals including duke and UNC psychiatrists, nurses, recreation therapists, psychologists, pharmacists, and other medical providers.

Training duke and UNC psychiatry residents.

Providing group, individual, and family counseling as well as psycho education including DBT and other evidence based practices.

Providing clinical oversight and administrative leadership for all department social workers when regular supervisor is absent.

Organizing and leading meetings to put together comprehensive discharge and treatment plans.

Providing clinical supervision and training for students in M.S.W. programs from local universities.