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Amanda Burris

Dallas,TX

Summary

  • I am a fun, loyal, hard-working individual that is looking to continue my career in counseling to help individuals live their better life.
  • Skilled Residential Counselor with strong background helping clients overcome personal challenges and cope with triggering situations.
  • Focused on facilitating exploration of issues, developing individualized plans and developing important skills.
  • Licensed by Texas. LCDC license # 15805
  • Expert counseling professional devoted to positively impacting clients.
  • Successful at delivering support individually and in group settings.
  • Seeks every opportunity to build trust and deep connections.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Counselor

Nexus Recovery Center
05.2021 - Current
  • Used cognitive behavior therapy to assist clients in recognizing and redirecting poor habits.
  • Addressed behavioral and emotional needs of residents through activities and interventions, increasing resident socialization, interpersonal and social skills.
  • Resolved conflicts by performing in-time crisis intervention and enforcing discipline and behavior metrics.
  • Provided individual counseling sessions for each client every week
  • Encourages self-efficacy with the client by helping her learn to emotionally regulate herself and understand her triggers.
  • Engaged intervention techniques to deescalate aggressive and hostile behavior of residents by helping the client manage her emotions and distress, maintain and regain control of their behavior.
  • Delivered client assessments for those struggling with addiction or relationship issues and implemented strategies based on client needs.
  • Offered guidance and advice to help cultivate self-esteem and community involvement.
  • Proven ability to be well-organized multitasker and be able to manage, coordinate and assess each task well.
  • Skilled in Group Therapy, Crisis Interventions, and Provide crisis interventions to individuals with psychological, emotional, or substance abuse problems.
  • Familiar with documenting and notating client's accounts

Caretaker

Your Good Neighbor Home Health Care
10.2020 - Current
  • Working with Your Good Neighbor Home Health Care, I take care of a 95 year old woman which involves light laundry and cleaning
  • I get Beth up in the mornings, give her her medicine, give her a bath, and fix breakfast
  • I also change her if she soils herself as well as making sure that she is clean before putting clean briefs on
  • If Beth has a doctor’s appointment on my shift, I escort her to the doctor
  • Each caretaker is responsible for documenting events as they occur in the communal binder
  • Since Beth is a diabetic, I help her with taking her blood sugar
  • Beth is a sweet older lady that every morning still puts on her lipstick, puts on and brushes her wig, wears a pantsuit every day, and puts 15 squirts of perfume on every morning
  • She is a pleasure and joy to help and she has helped me more than I have helped her
  • She has taught me, by modeling, how to advocate for myself; she will tell a person if she does or doesn't want something done to her or her home
  • Beth is a delight to work for and I will miss her.

Substitute Teacher

Rockwall High School
08.2018 - 04.2020
  • Followed classroom plans left by class teacher to continue student education and reinforce core concepts.
  • Upheld classroom routines to support student environments and maintain consistent schedules.
  • Repeatedly requested as substitute teacher by teachers based on excellent past referrals and trusted performance.
  • Kept students on-task with proactive behavior modification and positive reinforcement strategies.
  • Took over class for regular classroom teacher, managing assignments, student needs and recordkeeping.

INSTRUCTIONAL PARA, FORNEY ISD
08.2015 - 08.2018
  • As an instructional para, my job is to take a group of kids out of every class on every grade level (K-6th) and do one-on-one teaching with those students that are struggling
  • I have to be very flexible with this job because if a teacher is absent, and the substitute is not in yet, I have to watch the class until the sub arrives
  • Children are very unpredictable, and I have had to handle very stressful situation where children are throwing things and yelling at me
  • I have had to go through some special training in order to handle these situations
  • I help with the phones, checking students in and out, checking visitors in and out, and I also help with a lot of clerical work.

SCHEDULER •PARIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
06.2014 - 08.2016
  • The Scheduling Department was a very busy area for the hospital, I scheduled outpatient tests (CAT SCANS, MRI, ULTRASOUNDS, etc) for all the local, and surrounding areas for the hospital
  • I also did pre-authorizations and called patients to schedule appointments when the doctor’s office emailed me to do so
  • I also handled customer problems if they were to arise
  • There was not a lot of cash usage in this area since everything we did was over the phone.

KEY HOLDER

GAMESTOP
06.2009 - 03.2015
  • On nights that I worked and closed the store, I was in charge of counting the money and making the deposits
  • I also had to make sure the store was clean for the next day
  • I handled transactions through the POS
  • I also handled helping customers find a game all the way to helping customer complaints.

Senior Branch Account Executive

03.2006 - 06.2009
  • I had to get a certain amount of loans every month and make phone calls to increase business flow by getting more loans
  • I also had to handle cash payments, call people when they were behind on their loans, and do close my loans as well.

Experience Manager

CiCi’s Pizza
11.2001 - 03.2006
  • I worked up from a cashier to a management position
  • On a daily basis, I made sure that the right amounts of food was ordered without going over budget, making sure the store was clean at all times, and that the employees were acting, talking, and cleaning up the way that they were supposed to
  • Customers see how people interact with one another and work, and I wanted to make sure what the customers saw left a good impression
  • I also handled thousands of dollars every day
  • I had to do cash drops, make sure the correct amount of money was in the safe, watch employees to make sure that they were giving the correct amount of change, and handle the deposits at the end of all my shifts.

Education

Bachelor’s - Liberal Arts

Grand Canyon University

Master’s - Counseling

Grand Canyon university

Skills

  • Skills and Experiences include:
  • Group Facilitator
  • Individual sessions
  • Case planning and Conceptualizing
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Cultural competent care
  • Socioeconomic diverse clients
  • Knowledge of facilitating groups like Process group, Seeking Safety, Shame Resilience, Emotional Regulation, and A & D Education
  • Specialize in helping with addiction and trauma form a CBT, DBT, and Person-Centered therapy perspective

Additional Information

  • buttonbird04@yahoo.com
  • 817-291-6922- Cell

Certification

Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor with a Master's in Professional Counseling. I am in the process of studying to take the test to obtain my license for my LPC.


License # 15805

Timeline

Counselor

Nexus Recovery Center
05.2021 - Current

Caretaker

Your Good Neighbor Home Health Care
10.2020 - Current

Substitute Teacher

Rockwall High School
08.2018 - 04.2020

INSTRUCTIONAL PARA, FORNEY ISD
08.2015 - 08.2018

SCHEDULER •PARIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
06.2014 - 08.2016

KEY HOLDER

GAMESTOP
06.2009 - 03.2015

Senior Branch Account Executive

03.2006 - 06.2009

Experience Manager

CiCi’s Pizza
11.2001 - 03.2006

Bachelor’s - Liberal Arts

Grand Canyon University

Master’s - Counseling

Grand Canyon university

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