SABRINA TURNER

Community Counselor MA,

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Professional Counselor that possesses the following characteristics: empathetic, unconditional optimistic regard, strong desire to counsel, and willingness to learn. Possess excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills both verbal and written. Strong skills in screening, assessment, and treatment planning. Experience in providing clients presenting acute and chronic psychiatric disorders, dual diagnosis, PTSD, MDD, GAD, ODD, drug and alcohol issues, marriage and family, parent-child conflicts, psychosis, PICA, individual and group therapy, while utilizing various counseling theories and skills such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Person centered and Solution Focused therapy. Experience in leading psych-educational classes on reducing anxiety, and improving relaxation and anger management strategies.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

ACR Mental Health Services

Stonecrest Georgia

Therapist/supervisor 8/2023-9/23- provides mental health services to address the needs of chronically homeless people.

● Assist in building independent living and tenancy skills and connect people with community individuals needing Housing Support to promote health and wellness toward recovery.

● Supervise case manager staff to encourage individuals with independent living, life skills, connect people with community based health care, treatment and employment services Lakeview Behavior Mental Health/Riverwood Behavior Mental Health Norcross, Georgia

Assessment Counselor and Intake Counselor 11/2016 - Present Provides mental health services via Contract with Piedmont Healthcare Emergency Departments and work within the Lakeview Intake department.

● Facilitate intake, admission and utilization review process for incoming patients

● Perform insurance benefit verifications,

● Provide assessment of patientś status in the admission and utilization process

● Performs face-to-face and telehealth diagnostic and therapeutic practices to support physicians in identifying behavior health conditions and services for patient care; records the standard and nonstandard data. Manages interviews and performs research when needed. Provides psychiatric health services, training, counseling and emotional support in high pace hospitals.

● Record patient narrations, corresponds with family and support individual for patient and records the date in the patient’s record, writes progress notes and summaries noting pertinent positive and negative findings; obtains psycho social history relevant to patient care, and assumes responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients

● Monitors progress of patients, report progress to supervising physician, and maintains record of each patient’s progress, consulting with supervising physician when patient’s progress does not meet anticipated and or predetermined criteria

● Serve as a provider of crisis intervention, by administering individual and/or family therapy to address the crisis and identify triggers for crisis behavior.

● Formulates various levels of care recommendations for patients. Plan and refer for immediate disposition of patients, in regards to transfers and discharges.

● Serve as a liaison between the crisis assessment team and crisis intervention team and intake departments.

● Research current trends regarding counseling treatment and symptomatology to enhance patient/client care

CLINICAL TRAINING

Lakeview Behavior Mental Health Norcross, Georgia Supervised Practicum/Internship 01/2016

- 10/2016 Provided mental health services at a 70-bed treatment facility delivering multidisciplinary treatment services to

adults and adolescents on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. Clinical services provided by interns supervised by both the site Director of Clinical Services and Utilization and Academic Instructor of Record during 10-month clinical training.

● Conducted intake and psychosocial assessments to determine the presenting problems for case assignment to the appropriate clinical department.

● Performed short term and crisis intervention counseling.

● Collaborated with managed care agencies and pre-certify patients by reviewing diagnostic impressions and proposed treatment plans.

● Completed and maintained patient documentation, including federal and state-mandated forms, diagnostic records and progress notes while maintaining the confidentiality of records relating to patient treatment.

● Provided emotional support to patients diagnosed with DSM/ICD disorders to include major depression disorder, alcohol dependency, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, eating disorders, ADHD, and Alzheimer’s disease.

● Prepared topics for daily group sessions. Common topics included anxiety, addiction, suicide prevention, interpersonal skills, depression, substance abuse, coping skills, relapse prevention, grief counseling and adjustment after discharge.

● Evaluated patients’ progress after each individual or group session.

● Developed “New Hire Internship Training Manual” for facility new hire interns. City Grid Media Conyers, Georgia Account Executive 01/2007 - 04/2013 Consulted for an online media company that connects web and mobile publishers with local advertising organizations by utilizing search engine optimization.

● Consulted with customers regarding online advertisement and how it could promote their products and services.

● Provided customers with recommended advertisement yearly budget for promotion of product and services.

● Processed all correspondence and paperwork related to setting up new accounts, maintaining advertisement budget and customer service.

● Maintained a close relationship with high-value customers of average 500 accounts while developing new accounts monthly.

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EDUCATION

● Argosy University, Atlanta, Georgia

Master of Arts in Community Counseling Degree conferred: November 2016 ● AIU, Atlanta, Georgia

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Degree conferred: February 2000 ● TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

● Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, EPIC, Salesforce, HEC, E-solutions, Ecase, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

● The Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia, Inc., LPCA

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