MICHAEL J. KETIMA

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Professional Summary

Experienced Counselor and Behavior Specialist that specialized in: individual psychotherapy,

group psychotherapy, assessing clients, social work, motivational interviewing and behavioral

therapy. Comfortable working autonomously, and in team setting, working with autism

children/adults and clients with mental disorders, substance abuse, and behavioral problems.

Accomplishments

Worked as a mobile therapist, Behavioral Health personal care assistance, job coach, community

support employee, Superior ability to empathized with client & relate to parent, Strong in Person

Centered Therapy, Family Focus Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Internship placement

for one year, Therapeutic Support Staff and Residential youth counselor

Worked as a behavior analyst during my internship. Worked voluntarily in a non-

governmental organization

Education and Training

Immaculata University May 2014

Immaculata

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology

Coursework in Psychology, Substance Abuse and Counseling,

Ethics, group process, Children with Exceptional needs,

Family Counseling, Assessment for Counselors, and Research Methods.

Licensed Behavior Specialist

Internship placement May 2013-May 2014

LIFEPATH Inc. Media PA,

Pennsylvania

Initiated and maintained therapeutic alliance with clients, applied active listening,

Expressed empathy and unconditional positive regard, formulated and implemented plans

Immaculata University October 2010- January 2011

Undergraduate Program (Undecided)

NJalla University College, June, 1993 - May1999

University of Sierra Leone

Freetown Sierra Leone

Bachelors of Science: Major Geography, Minor Economics

Internship placement

LIFEPATH Inc. Media PA. 05/2013-05/2014

Initiated and maintained therapeutic alliance with clients, applied active listening, express

empathy and unconditional positive regard, formulated and implemented plans.

Encouraging clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives,

and help them develop

insights in to themselves and their relationships.

Guiding clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their problems

Co-facilitate group therapy sessions and demonstrated the ability to work effectively with

diverse personalities and

p opulations.

Manage caseload of about 16 clients from various ethnic and cultural back-ground.

Engaged with practicum team, provided feedback to others and utilized feedback non -

defensively.

Worked primarily with adult and children population

worked a total of 750 hours including 182 direct service hours, 137 hours with individual

and family

psychotherapy and 1 hour of individual on -site supervision and 1hour of weekly supervision

Co-facilitated anger management groups and healthy social behaviors to provide psycho -

education and increase

insights into maladaptive coping mechanism skills

Maintain progress notes for all clients to ensure proper documentation of sessions content

and interventions

Utilized person centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and play therapy techniques

with children and

adults suffering from severe emotional disturbances, developmental delays and autism

spectrum disorders.

Professional Experience

Devereux Community Services May 2014- Present

Devon

Mobile therapist,

Community support staff and Job Coach.

Identifies the strengths and needs of the child

Listens to the family, ask questions and provides clinical information to help the family

Determine the need for any family support services, special evaluations, child welfare,

juvenile probation or additional mental health support.

Assist the family to promote independence of the family in managing mental health needs

and or behavior problems

Develop treatment plans, progress notes, discharge plans and develop crisis intervention

plan

Community Support Staff accompanies clients to and from appointments and activities

Builds a support network between clients and community members

Encourage and ensures that clients maintain a clean, safe and comfortable environment

providing assistance as appropriate.

Job coach conducts client vocational profile, implement support plans, do assessment and

develop interest skills

Assumes a lead role in the team development and review of client service plan

Provide intensive on- the job training

Research Work/Future Research Interest May 2014

My research work entails critiquing an article titled “Central Office Administrators Support

principals ‘development as instructional leaders” examine the usefulness of principals in

executing their roles as instructional leaders and working intensively with job embedded

principals. This article investigates an in-depth contemporary case review of the gap and

findings that existed evidence by a deepened content knowledge and comparative work the

central office administrators implemented in three districts leaning towards principals’

instructional leadership support.

My Future research interest is to pursue a PHD in behavior/Gerontology. This will pave way

for my indebt understanding and specialization in the field of behavior.

CCRES October 2012-present

Behavior Health Personal care assistance

Therapeutic Support Staff

Provide one to one assistance to children/adolescents/Adults with emotional and behavioral

disorders in the school setting based on medical needs of the client

Prompt interventions in the areas of: behavior management, conflict resolution, anger

management, and peer interaction skills based on the IEP goals or behavioral treatment plan

provided by school officials or a behavior specialist consultant (masters level clinician)

Collect daily data and document progress notes in a prescribed format for each session with

the child/adult.

Support clients with activities of daily living and useful life skills

Devereux Community Services September 2012- June 2013

Therapeutic Support Staff

Charted and recorded information of client daily

Effectively manage time and caseload based on the number of sessions per week

Quickly responded to crisis situations when severe mental health and behavioral issues arose

Document treatment plan, progress notes and conduct outreach

Taught client anger management techniques, relaxation skills, impulse control, emotional coping

skills and functional living skills

Provide monitoring and motivation to help client cope with social skills

Organize treatment projects that focused on problem solving skills and critical thinking

Pennsylvania Clinical School November 2008 - October 2010

Residential Youth Counselor

Coatesville, PA

Track client’s movement on and off the unit by documenting times and destinations

Effectively managed time and caseloads and observe sessions per week

Collaborated closely with treatment team to appropriately coordinate client service care

Taught clients anger management techniques, relaxation skills, social skills, coping strategies,

emotional coping skills and functional living skills

Worked with autism clients, developmental delay patients, sex offenders and aggressive cases

Voluntary Church Service in Ivory Coast, West Africa May 2002- May 2002

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