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Education
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Certification
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Jennifer Pinner

Summary

Dedicated Mental Health Counselor offering 10 years of experience delivering patient-centered healthcare. Talented in leveraging proven methods to provide quality care. Instrumental in developing education programs by coordinating with clients and other service providers for wraparound care. Enthusiastic employee bringing expertise in office support in ability excellent multitasking, organizational, time management skills, and high retention rate. Strong ability to maintain professional appearance and uphold strong public image. Familiar with building relationships with clients and able to adapt easily to new processes and procedures. Reliable, quick learner, and team. Calm and composed in stressful situations and capable of reducing customer dissatisfaction through acknowledgment, decisive communication and focused solutions

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Licensed Professional Counselor

Martin Counseling
Katy, TX
08.2020 - Current
  • Provide individual weekly support for 30+ individual clients, couples, and adolescents applying advanced counseling techniques, such as trauma-informed, relational, and cognitive behavior therapy, to define patient issues.
  • Utilize expertise to support clients in anger management techniques, relaxation skills, impulse control, social skills, emotional coping skills and functional living skills.
  • Consult with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications.
  • Employ various therapy techniques, including psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive behavioral and lifespan integration psychotherapy.
  • Diagnose mental health, emotional and substance abuse disorders.

Staff Therapist LPC

Lonestar Behavioral Hospital
Tomball, TX
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Developed and implemented intervention plans.
  • Conducted mental health counseling using evidence-based practice and clinical models.
  • Performed individual and group therapy sessions with well-coordinated and safety-oriented approach.
  • Screened clients with emphasis placed on mental health, addiction severity and co-occurring disorders.
  • Referred clients to medical, housing, social services, employment and legal assistance support services.
  • Tracked incoming patient information, intervention plans and patient responses to treatment.
  • Delivered appropriate therapy based on diagnosis and individual needs.
  • Performed comprehensive assessments for each patient.
  • Managed caseload of multiple sessions weekly using various types of therapies and approaches.

Clinical Assistant

Tarnow Center for Self-Management
Houston, TX
01.2020 - 03.2021
  • Managed patient appointment scheduling for practice with 12 clinicians.
  • Assisted educational diagnosticians with reports and scoring psychoeducational testing materials.
  • Provided high level of support to stressed patients prior to procedures, offering comfort and listening ear.
  • Checked patients in, compiled new patient forms, and updated patient files.
  • Secured patient information and maintained patient confidence by completing and safeguarding medical records.
  • Educated patients about medications, procedures and physician's instructions.

Owner/Mental Health Counselor Associate

J. Pinner Counseling
Seattle, WA Katy, TX
7 2016 - 12.2019
  • Assessed therapeutic needs of each client utilizing psychological assessments such as the GAD and PHQ9 scales
  • Provided in-depth counseling for clients and created plans for coping via a trauma informed approach to assist patient with strategies to decrease anxiety such as PMR
  • Referenced and used various therapy techniques, including psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive behavioral and lifespan integration psychotherapy.
  • Documented all patient information including service plans, treatment reports, and progress notes.

Education

Master of Arts - Counseling Psychology

The Seattle School Of Theology & Psychology
2014

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

The University Of Houston
2004

Skills

  • Individual, Couples, Family and Group Counseling
  • Successful in Group Private Practice
  • Client Goal Planning
  • Tracking Client Progress
  • Individual, Couples, and Adolescent Counseling
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Active listener
  • Health and wellness education
  • Assessing mental health
  • Psychoeducation
  • Cultural Sensitivity
  • Safety and Risk Assessments

Accomplishments

  • Maintained 95% retention rate by utilizing various treatment modalities and interventions such as supportive reflections, psychoeducation, relaxation technques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, etc.
  • Decreased reported symptoms of client's mental health concerns.
  • Increased overall client satisfaction in 90% of clients by meeting their therapeutic goals
  • Increased clients with implementing skill sets for emotional regulation, processing traumatic events, and exploring their emotional experiences and thought processes.
  • Succesful administration of therapeutic assessments such as GAD-7, PHQ-9, PCL-5, ASRS-v.01, Y-BCOS, and MDI

Certification

Licensed Professional Counselor Texas, December 2021-present (LIC #83689)

Licensed Professional Counselor Associate Texas, March 2020-December 2021 (LIC # 83689)

Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate Washington, April 2015-March 2020

Agency Affiliated Counselor, September 2013-September 2014

Insurance Paneling

  • BCBS PPO
  • Optum/United Healthcare
  • Cigna
  • Aetna
  • Tri-health
  • Concern

Timeline

Staff Therapist LPC

Lonestar Behavioral Hospital
06.2021 - 07.2022

Licensed Professional Counselor

Martin Counseling
08.2020 - Current

Clinical Assistant

Tarnow Center for Self-Management
01.2020 - 03.2021

Owner/Mental Health Counselor Associate

J. Pinner Counseling
7 2016 - 12.2019

Master of Arts - Counseling Psychology

The Seattle School Of Theology & Psychology

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

The University Of Houston

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