Cindy Allen

**** ********** ****, **** ****, Georgia 30634

Cell: 404-***-****

email: abofn4@r.postjobfree.com

NATIONAL CERTIFIED COUNSELOR

A highly skilled, compassionate, empathetic, and solutions-oriented

professional dedicated to providing exceptional care and implementing

effective therapeutic services for children, adolescents, and adults

experiencing crisis that are detrimental to their well-being. Demonstrate

track record of success working with diverse client populations in

individual, family, and group settings. Effective motivator, communicator,

and advocate with inherent ability to manage all types of personalities,

diffuse stressful situations, proactively resolve issues, meet and achieve

challenging goals and objective. Innate ability to establish rapport

quickly, build trust, interact with and relate to individuals on all

levels.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Crisis Intervention Continue Care Planning

Substance Abuse Counseling / Treatment

Family Therapy Group Facilitator /

Leader Client Assessment / Evaluation

Trauma Parenting / Family

Education Treatment Analysis / Planning

Group Counseling Individual Counseling

Document Research / Review

Violence Prevention Case Presentation

Administrative / Data Entry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hart County Middle School * Hartwell, Georgia

2011 - Present

In-School Suspension Instructor

Develop and assess progress and effectiveness of behavior modification

plans with students.

Maintains current records of all students assigned to the In-School

Suspension Program.

Assists in the evaluation of students need and in the preparation of

appropriate materials and lessons in collaboration with certified

personnel.

Provides concise written and / or oral communications to teachers and

administrators about student's efforts on assignments and other pertinent

information.

Utilize behavior and cognitive therapy techniques with youths 10 - 14 with

emotional disturbances, disruptive behaviors and developmental delays to

foster self-awareness.

Process disruptive behaviors with adolescents to ensure safety and

cultivate healthier coping skills.

Young Adult Guidance Center * Atlanta, Georgia

2011 - 2011

Clinical Internship / Counselor

Counseled adolescents ages 6 - 24, presenting issues ranging from

transitioning from prison, gangs, homelessness, lack of education, lack of

family support, sex abuse/offenders, substance abuse and mental health

disorders ranging from Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Bipolar ADHD, ADD,

Depression, Schizophrenia, Conduct Disorder, Antisocial Personality

Disorder, Psychopathy, Substance and Alcohol Abuse, and Anger Management

Problems.

Provided community management services to clients that are related to

therapeutic relationship.

Conducted Intake Assessment, Biopsychosocial Assessment, BIRP

Notes,Treatment Plans and Goals.

Conducted individual, group, and family therapy sessions in residential

treatment center assisting individuals in achieving effective social,

personal, vocational, and educational development and adjustment.

Gathered data about individuals through use of case history, interviews,

and observational techniques.

Conducted therapeutic and counseling interviews to help individuals gain

insight into define goals, personal problems, and plan action reflecting

interests, needs, and abilities.

Provided educational, occupational, and other information to facilitate

individual to formulate realistic vocational and educational plans.

Assisted teens to deal with issues such as emotional disturbance, substance

abuse, grief and destructive behavior.

Managed a high volume of case loads (up to sixty (60).

Co-facilitated anger management groups for middle school and high school

males.

Hartwell Elementary School * Hartwell, Georgia

2005 - 2011

In-School Suspension Instructor

Collaborated with School Counselor and staff members to assess and develop

academic, developmental, and behavior modification plans for youths with

behavioral and emotional challenges and special needs.

Led and co-led boys, girls and mixed groups weekly. Topics included social

skills, academic issues, behavioral issues, bullying, sexual harassment,

assertiveness training, anger management and transitioning to middle

school.

Mentored group of youths by modeling healthy coping skills, during times of

conflict and distress.

S.T.E.P.S Outreach Center * Hartwell, Georgia

2003 - 2011

Summer Camp and After-School Program Director

Managed the day - to - day operations of a successful summer camp and after-

school tutorial program catered towards empowering disadvantage youths and

adolescent within the surrounding communities. Supervised twelve camp

counselors and eight after-school program staff members to ensure effective

program implementation. Facilitated staff orientation training and provided

ongoing staff guidance.

Secured grants and scholarship for disadvantage youths to attend summer

camp and the after-school tutorial program.

Emory University * Atlanta, Georgia

2000 - 2003

Matching Gift Administrator

Collected matching gift forms from donors, completed gift verifications and

submitted information to matching gift corporations, monitored matching

gift accounts, verified corporate gift matches online, updated matching

gift information on website, notified donors of matching gifts, and

monitored receipt of matching gifts. Verified and reconciled daily cash

receipts, data-enter gifts, record gifts to correct accounts, created and

updated donor database records, distributed weekly error reports, and

conducted research on gifts and constituents.

Managed the Development Operations office at Emory University. Included a

staff of seven data entry persons, whom entered 85,000 changes per year,

including 20,000 gifts totaling $16 million dollars.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Post Graduate Certification in Marriage & Family Therapy - 2012

Argosy University - Atlanta, Georgia

Accredited by the Counsel for Accreditation of Counseling and Related

Educational Programs (CACREP)

Master of Arts in Community Counseling - 2011

Argosy University - Atlanta, Georgia

Accredited by the Counsel for Accreditation of Counseling and Related

Educational Programs (CACREP)

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology - 2008

Argosy University - Atlanta, Georgia

National Certified Counselor - 2012

Certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (Student Affiliate)

- 2010

Alpha Upsilon Alpha National Honors Program (Counseling Academic and

Professional Honor Society) - 2011

Chi Sigma Iota International Honors Program (Counseling Academic and

Professional Honor Society) - 2011

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Word 2007, Excel, PowerPoint Presentations, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Snow

Leopard, Keynote, Page, Safari, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2000,

Microsoft Office 1997, MS Access, MS Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook

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