Hi, I’m
Fred J Bamulutira
Mental Health Professional
Lowell,MA
Overview
15
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Greener Landscapes Inc
Founder/ President
Job overview
- Initiating, and planning organization projects, recruiting teams, identifying areas of organization focus, identifying stakeholders, managing teams, monitoring team activities and project progress, planning education and sensitization of communities and stakeholders.
Dimock Health Center
Addiction Treatment Clinician/Case Manager (Contract)
12.2022 - 6 2024
Job overview
- Case management for assigned patients in addiction treatment
- Treatment planning and reviews
- Reaching out to insurance carriers for treatment authorizations, reauthorizations, and concurrent reviews
- Aftercare planning
- Planning and conducting addiction group therapy sessions
- Meeting 1:1 with patients for progress reviews, and for scheduled clinician-client contacts
- Multi-disciplinary treatment team participation
- Attending weekly case review meetings
- Working with individual clients to identify triggers, and relapse mitigation strategies/skills.
Tara Vista Behavioral Health Center
Mental Health Counselor
04.2018 - 09.2022
Job overview
- Providing emotional support to patients
- Guiding patients in identifying, learning and practicing coping skills
- Providing 1:1 MHC contact to patients
- Writing shift counseling notes
- Participating in Multidisciplinary treatment teams
- Facilitating group education
- Supervising patients during on and off the unit activities.
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
Mental Health Professional
09.2013 - 03.2018
Job overview
- Responding to Maximum Security Prison inmates experiencing psychological/emotional crises
- Meeting 1:1 with inmates on my caseload diagnosed with mental illness least x1 a month
- Together with clients setting treatment goals and plans
- Designing initial treatment plans, and necessary periodical reviews
- Assessing inmates to be housed in segregation units for appropriateness
- Segregation database updates and management
- Monitoring inmates on the health services unit
- Advocating for inmate rights
- Crisis shift coverage
- Writing and submitting incident reports
- Triage difficult cases with MH director
- Entering session notes in the DOC inmate management system.
Tidewater Youth Services Commission
Residential Counselor
04.2007 - 09.2013
Job overview
- Providing adult supervision and guidance to residents
- Designing individualized behavioral service plans
- Working with assigned clients toward behavioral change
- Collaborating and working as a multidisciplinary treatment team with probation officers, social workers, psychiatrists, therapists, and the juvenile court system
- Holding one-on-one counseling sessions with assigned clients
- Facilitating psychoeducational and other therapeutic group sessions
- Writing daily shift, weekly, court, and monthly reports
- Transporting residents to appointments, recreational, and other outings.
City of Virginia Beach, Department of Human Services
Mental Health Counseling Intern
07.2012 - 06.2013
Job overview
- Visited and assessed mental health inpatient clients for discharge readiness
- Discharge planning
- Treatment goal setting and planning with inpatient clients
- Intake assessment of clients
- Hold individual and one-on-one sessions with assigned clients at office, and in client residences
- Transport clients to appointments
- Lead/co-lead group sessions
- Work with clients toward coping skills, and symptom reduction and management
- Enter assessment, and counseling notes in client charts
- Help clients with medication compliance
- Coordinate other needed services for clients, and accompany clients to some of the appointments.
Education
Capella UniversityMinneapolis, MN
Msc. in Mental Health Counseling
Sentara School of Clinical Pastoral EducationNorfolk, VA
Non-License in Critical Incident Stress Management
Sentara School of Clinical Pastoral EducationNorfolk, VA
Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education
Southern Methodist University- Perkins School of TheologyDallas, TX
Master's in Theological Studies
Skills
Addiction Counseling
Certification
CPR - May 2025
Resume
Experienced Mental Health Professional License eligible (Completed both internship and pre-licensure supervision hours) Remaining to take licensing exam from any State for licensure there. Willing to relocate: Anywhere Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Languages
Lingala- Intermediate
Swahili - Intermediate
Luganda - Expert
English - Fluent
Interests
Environmental Causes
Music, Traveling, Volunteering, Community Welfare
Music is a universal language of self expression, which I use and encourage others to use as well. In travelling I get to know different people and different cultures, and learn to respect and appreciate them. Volunteering is the basis of helping others, and leads me to knowledge of the needs of others in the community, and to finding ways to be part of the solution/s
Timeline
Addiction Treatment Clinician/Case Manager (Contract)
Dimock Health Center
12.2022 - 6 2024
Mental Health Counselor
Tara Vista Behavioral Health Center
04.2018 - 09.2022
Mental Health Professional
Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center
09.2013 - 03.2018
Mental Health Counseling Intern
City of Virginia Beach, Department of Human Services
07.2012 - 06.2013
Residential Counselor
Tidewater Youth Services Commission
04.2007 - 09.2013
Founder/ President
Greener Landscapes Inc
Capella University
Msc. in Mental Health Counseling
Sentara School of Clinical Pastoral Education
Non-License in Critical Incident Stress Management
Sentara School of Clinical Pastoral Education
Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education
Southern Methodist University- Perkins School of Theology
Master's in Theological Studies
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