ANIDE CHARLES
Counselor
WINTER PARK,FL
Summary
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational, advising, counseling and coaching skills eager to secure a position as an academic advisor at a university or college. Ready to help company achieve success while helping students to attain successful in a college environment while pursuing their dreams.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Counselor*Owner
Positive Life Counseling Services, LLC
01.2016 - Current
- Provide counseling for individual clients to help cope with a variety of mental health issues and assist to make life changes through therapy
- Support individuals to cope with substance abuse and addictions; family, parenting, and marital problems, suicidal ideation, stress management, problems with self-esteem; and issues associated with aging, mental and emotional health
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives and help them develop insight into themselves and their relationships
- Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, and tests
- Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports
- Provide Services for local county probation such as anger management classes, anti-theft, parenting, misdemeanor, substance abuse evaluation, and mental health evaluations.
Director/Counselor
Stress And Anxiety Center
01.2014 - 01.2022
- Provide counseling for individual clients and in group settings to help overcome addiction and assist in making life changes
- Support individuals to cope with substance abuse and addictions, family, parenting, and marital problems, suicide, stress management, problems with self-esteem, and issues associated with aging, mental and emotional health
- Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives and help them develop insight into themselves and their relationships
- Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, and tests
- Prepared and maintained required treatment records and reports
- Recruited interns for the practice every semester
- Established and conducted weekly depression and anxiety group for women
- Performed all counseling duties while managing the day-to-day operation
- Increased clientele by thirty percent.
Practicum/Counselor
Stress And Anxiety Center
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Applied knowledge, techniques and skills learned from classroom
- Collect clients information through interviews and observations
- Evaluated clients physical and mental condition after reviewing their information
- Counseled clients individually and in groups while assisting to overcome dependencies, to produce change in their lives and daily activities.
Intake Specialist
Workforce Central Florida
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Interviewed individuals seeking assistance to keep their homes from going into foreclosure and certify their eligibility to receive program benefits
- Answered applicants questions on eligibility and available benefits
- Prepared applications for loan approval and to retain their homes
- Kept records of assigned cases, and prepared required reports for loans and financial assistance.
Case Manager
ITM
01.2012 - 01.2012
- Conducted intake, coordinated comprehensive assessments of individual’s strengths, and needs, help create individualized support plan to address those needs
- Advocated and developed services, identified plans, and monitor individuals progress while evaluating services effectiveness
- Managed caseload of 15 clients
- Made 10 to 15 phone calls daily to clients for services.
Program Coordinator
Concord Management
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Supervised recreational program and educational activities for children ages five through twelve
- Scheduled daily and weekly activities as well as guest speakers
- Kept tract of daily and monthly attendance of program
- Ordered monthly supplies
- Managed program budget and petty cash funds
- Supervised 3 employees and made their monthly schedule.
Teacher
JCC of Greater Orlando
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Facilitate lessons with program alignment and objectives
- Prepared weekly lesson plans for 12 students
- Prepared weekly newsletter for parents
- Coordinate and prepared all classroom activities in accordance with school direct plans
- Motivate students to participate, learn and process by employing teaching techniques.
Teacher
Head Start
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Prepared weekly lesson plans for 18 students
- Facilitate lessons in accordance with program objectives
- Responsible to help students master assignments and reinforced learning concepts presented from program
- Present subject matter to students while providing direction, guidance using lectures, discussion, and supervised role-playing methods.
Customer Service Representative
Walmart
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Resolved customer service issues, billing complaints by performing activities such as exchanging merchandise, refunding money, and adjusting billing issues
- Counted money in cash drawers when employees started their shifts to ensure amounts are correct.
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Quality Care Management
01.2002 - 01.2005
- Certified Nurses Aid
- Observe patients conditions, measured, recorded food and liquid intake
- Perform output and vital signs and reported changes to professional staff
- Showered patients daily and feed patients who are unable to feed themselves
- Helped patients get dress daily and manage self-care
- Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
Substitute Teacher
Orange County School Board
01.1998 - 01.2002
- Created weekly and monthly lesson plans based on length of time in classroom
- Taught in classrooms for three to six months
- Applied lesson plans; assign student class work and homework
- Sustain classroom control and discipline
- Completed daily reports and evaluated any significant information resulting from the day’s events.
Education
Master of Science - Mental Health Counseling, Trauma & Crisis
Walden University
Bachelor of Science - Public Administration
Barry University
Associate of Arts Degree - undefined
Seminole State College
Skills
- Technical Skills
- Emailing, Online Researching, Typing, Editing Documents
- Create Presentations, Create Spreadsheets, Microsoft Word
- Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Files and Document Management
- Other Skills
- Effective Communication, Writing Skills, Organizational Skills, and Time Management
Accomplishments
- Counseling skills
- Therapeutic interventions
- Intake Screening
- Individual And Group Counseling
- Advising, Consulting and Coaching
- Evaluations
- Mental health evaluation
- Substance abuse evaluation
- Immigrations evaluation
- Prescription pain management evaluations and counseling, VPK, CDA, Waiver, DCF 45 Hours,
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 1997 to present
- Standard First Aid 1997 to present
- ADDITIONAL:
- Recruiter:
- Served as an intern and recruiter for new employee for new hires
- Volunteered:
- I Volunteered with parents with children with special needs to provide guidance with IEP and testing procedures
- I have conducted long term and short-term disabilities paperwork for employees and companies
- I have nine years of experience with FMLA, EAP paperwork
- I have conducted evaluations for individuals who were social security candidate as well as assisting to fill out their paperwork
- Leadership:
- Founded half a day program for middle-aged women, elderly individuals without families to come together to support one another on a weekly basis
- Managed a group of 8 individuals
- Writer:
- Part time writer for medium.
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Timeline
Counselor*Owner
Positive Life Counseling Services, LLC
01.2016 - Current
Director/Counselor
Stress And Anxiety Center
01.2014 - 01.2022
Practicum/Counselor
Stress And Anxiety Center
01.2013 - 01.2014
Intake Specialist
Workforce Central Florida
01.2012 - 01.2013
Case Manager
ITM
01.2012 - 01.2012
Program Coordinator
Concord Management
01.2009 - 01.2011
Teacher
JCC of Greater Orlando
01.2008 - 01.2009
Teacher
Head Start
01.2007 - 01.2009
Customer Service Representative
Walmart
01.2005 - 01.2007
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Quality Care Management
01.2002 - 01.2005
Substitute Teacher
Orange County School Board
01.1998 - 01.2002
Master of Science - Mental Health Counseling, Trauma & Crisis
Walden University
Bachelor of Science - Public Administration
Barry University
Associate of Arts Degree - undefined
Seminole State College
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