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Clinical Counselor, Employee, October 2020 – Present
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA

• Licensed Mental Health Counselor
• In home counseling for 13–21-year-olds and families.
• Specialize in at home services with trauma, substance abuse, OCD, aniexty, depression, self-harm & harmful thought patterns, and the development of supportive relationships.

Counseling Intern, Employee, September 2019 – June 2020
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

• Counseled individuals, families, teens, and children.
• Specialized in marital conflict resolution, family trauma, and behavioral difficulties with children.
• Worked with children, teens, and adults.
• Conducted family reunifications.

Housing Director/Counselor, June 2001 – 2007, 2016 – 2020
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

• Counsel clients individually or in group sessions to assist in overcoming.
• Worked with families, including children/teens for stabilization, support, and reintroduction into the home.
• Coordinate counseling efforts with mental health professionals such as doctors, nurses, or social workers.
• Interview clients, review records, and confer with professionals to evaluate individual’s mental and physical conditions and to determine their suitability for participation in a specific program.
• Intervene as an advocate for clients to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
• Modify treatment plans to increase knowledge and skills.
• Provide clients or family members with information about addiction issues and available services, making appropriate referrals when necessary.
• Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, dealing with, and supporting clients.
• Act as liaison between clients, school, and work place medical staff.

Director, October 2010 – June 2016
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

• Identify main client groups and audiences, determine the best way to communicate public information to them, and develop and implement a communication plan.
• Counsel clients individually or in group sessions to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.
• Coordinate counseling efforts with mental health professionals or other health professionals such as doctors, nurses, or social workers.
• Coordinate activities with courts, probation officers, community services or other post-treatment agencies.
• Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialties in such fields as medicine or legal aid.
• Confer with other counselors in order to analyze cases and to coordinate counseling services.
• Counsel families including parents, teens, and children.

Director, April 1998 – April 2001
STEWIACKE, NOVA SCOTIA

• Directed residential camp for troubled teens, ages 13-17
• Responsible for all training, counseling, and programs.
• Worked through traumatic situations, PTSD, anxiety & depression, and people hurting & struggling.
• Coordinated and updated parents/guardians reference client progress.
• All in-processing/out processing – application, selection, and follow up.

Training NCO, Reconnaissance Specialist, 1984 – 1989
GLOBAL

• Monitor, evaluate, or record training activities or program effectiveness.
• Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
• Organize, develop, obtain and obtain training procedural manuals and guides including course materials such as handouts and visual materials.
• Select and assign instructors to conduct training.
• Supervise instructors, evaluate instructor performance, and refer instructors to classes for skill development.
• Coordinate recruitment and placement of training program participants.