Cordette Fitzgerald Vanzant

**** ** ***** **. *****, FL 33161

` Phone: 646-***-****

Email: adjegu@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

A dedicated Mental Health Counselor with experience in the mental health, social services, and teaching fields. Extensively trained in counseling individuals of various ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, including children, adolescents, adults and geriatric.

Skills

Presently a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern in the state of Florida, culturally sensitive, trained in indicators of child abuse and Biopsychosocial Assessments, excellent attention to detail, proficient computers skills.

Education

Florida International University December 13, 2020

-Master’s of Science in Counseling Education

Florida International University December 10, 2016

-Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Broward College May 8, 2014

-Associate of Liberal Arts

Work History

Instacart April 2019- Present Day

29 Hours/Week

In-Store Shopper

•Collaborates with grocery stores to ensure the delivery of efficient, high quality service.

•Politely assists customers in person and via telephone.

•Recommends, selects, and helps locate and obtains out of stock products based on customer requests.

•Assists customers with food selection, inquiries and order customization requests.

FIU Disability Resource Center (DRC) May 2020-December 2020

10-40+ Hours/Week

Student Counseling Intern

•Counsels undergraduate students with physical and mental disabilities.

•Provides job coaching to students who are in their junior and senior year.

•Provides course guidance to students to help facilitate their academic goals.

Trauma Resolution Center August 2019-July 2020

10-20 Hours/Week

Clinician

•Provided trauma counseling to clients with PTSD, anxiety and depression.

•Conducted intake assessments with clients.

•Facilitated group counseling sessions on trauma bonding, domestic violence, and the psychobiology of trauma.

•Utilized Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR), Unblocking, Disturbance Handling, and Grounding techniques with clients to help reduce their symptomologies.

Freedom Preparatory Academy July 2017-July2018

40+ Hours/Week

Co-Teacher

•Managed two classrooms of approximately 60 students.

•Responsible for teaching and developing lessons for science, social studies, writing, spelling,

•guided reading and phonics.

•Responsible for improving the overall reading scores by 100% for my students.

•Responsible for students in my classroom in obtaining the highest reading scores in the entire school.

•Worked with students with Individualized Educational Plans.

•Provided counseling and support for students with learning and physical disabilities in the classroom settings.

•Helped coach students with learning disabilities in improving their reading scores.

•Responsible for developing and providing alternative lesson plans for gifted students and students with disabilities in my classrooms.

Mercy Healthcare Hospital February 2017- June 2017

36+ Hours/Week

Certified Nursing Assistant

•Assisted patients with mental and physical disabilities by guiding them in their activities of daily living.

•Assisted patients with restorative exercises.

•Assisted patients with various disabilities in achieving their rehabilitation goals.

•Provided counseling to clients.

Sabbatical December 2012-February 2017

•Was a full-time university student.

•Focused on my studies and volunteer experiences.

•Focused on providing home care for a Veteran family member with multiple disabilities.

•Focused on being present in my loved one’s lives.

Access Private Duty Nursing Services May 2009-December 2012

36+ Hours/Week

Certified Nursing Assistant

•Assisted patients with range of motion exercises.

•Assisted patients with ambulating.

•Assisted patients with activities of daily living (ADLS).

•Worked with individuals with various disabilities in the hospital and nursing home settings.

Favorite Healthcare Staffing December 2009- December 2012

30+ Hours/Week

Certified Nursing Assistant

•Responsible for proper patient transporting techniques.

•Maintained individual unit medical inventory.

•Assisted patients who needed help ambulating.

•Coached patients with disabilities in regaining their independence by implementing their occupational therapy exercises.

•Provided counseling and guidance to patients with various disabilities.

Certifications/Trainings:

•Certified Rehabilitation Counselor July 31, 2020

•Anti-Racism Training Jun.22, 2020

•Trauma Incident Reduction Jun. 28, 2019

•Youth Mental Health First Aid USA Jun. 14, 2019

•Domestic Violence Jun. 10, 2019

•Play Therapy Oct. 26, 2019

•Mental Health First Aid USA Dec. 4, 2019

•Certified Nursing Assistant Licensure Aug. 5, 2005

Honors and Awards:

•FIU Honors College Outstanding Citizenship Award Sept. 2015

•Certificate of Service for Panorama Service Expeditions May 2015

•Recipient of the Willis Holcombe Scholarship Aug. 2014

•Recipient of the Bocchino Family Scholarship Award from the Robert Elmore’s Honors Institute May 2014

•Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Dedication and Service May 2014

•Brother to Brother Mentor Student Advocate Award Apr. 2014

•Broward College Outstanding Member of the Year for the Honors Student Committee Apr. 2014

•Certificate of Appreciation for Dedication and Service with Children’s Harbor Apr. 2014

•Nominated Outstanding Member of the Year for the Phi Theta Kappa Annual Conference Mar. 2014

•Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Presentation Dec. 2013

•Certificate of Appreciation for Peer Tutoring Dec. 2013

Leadership Service/Club Organizations:

Student American Rehabilitation Counseling Association Secretary Jan.2018-Present

•Responsible for transcribing meeting minutes.

•Responsible for tending to organizational emails.

•Responsible for contributing/formulating towards community projects.

FIU Student Alumni Ambassador (Jan.2014-Dec.2016)

•Provided campus tours to alumni and donors to FIU.

•Promoted awareness of our student alumni association.

•Responsible for developing events for alumni.

Broward College Ambassador Jan.2013-May.2014

•Responsible for assisting the financial aid office in matters such as aiding students in signing up for courses and answering general questions.

•Escorted staff members and visitors around campus and at certain school-related events.

Connect to Complete, Mentor May.2013-May.2014

• A program implemented to aid incoming freshmen to in all areas to succeed in a college environment.

•Taught lesson such as: studying skills and memorization techniques to students in need of assistance in the areas.

•Had approximately 10 mentees per semester in which I got them acclimatized to the campus and held weekly meetings with to ensure their academic success and build their social skills on campus.

•Provided career counseling to mentees.

•Provided academic support to mentees.

Brother to Brother, Mentor May.2013-May.2014

•A program put in place to ensure the success of Black and Latino males that are at high risk of not completing college.

•Had a total of 4 mentees per semester where I set up weekly group study sessions.

•Familiarized my mentees with all the resources the campus had to offer academically and leisurely.

•Provided academic guidance and career counseling to mentees.

ALUMNI/Memberships:

•-Student Veterans Association (SVA)

•-Member of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI) Delta Iota Chapter

•-Alumni of ASPIRA

•-Alumni of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Alpha Delta Rho Chapter

•-Alumni of Broward College

•-Alumni of Robert Elmore’s Honors Institute

•- Alumni of FIU Honors College

•-Member of Order of Omega

•-Member of Psi Chi

•-Member of Gamma Epsilon Phi

•- Member of the FIU Student Alumni Association

•-Member of the Psychology Club

•-Member of Tau Sigma Phi Chapter

•-Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars

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