Lindsey Soennichsen, M.S, LMFT Resume
Midlothian
Summary
Successful at helping clients unravel their physical, mental and emotional layers to find root causes of problems and develop strong coping skills for a wide range of scenarios. Proficient in interdisciplinary collaborating and adept at making positive impact on patient lives.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mental Health Therapist
Path Mental Health
02.2022 - Current
- Provided clients with recommendations to community resources.
- Performed client assessments and developed treatment plans.
- Documented client progress in confidential files.
- Managed private practice of 3 clients per week.
- Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes and client records in accordance with licensing standards.
- Conducted intake and needs assessments to set therapeutic goals and establish professional relationships with clients.
- Collaborated with other mental health professionals to create comprehensive treatment plans.
- Leveraged practice management software to complete weekly progress notes, update quarterly treatment plans and maintain patient records.
- Asked questions to help clients identify feelings and behaviors.
- Countered problematic behavior with healthy alternatives to enhance mental, emotional and physical wellness and increase energy.
- Counseled clients on concerns such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation or financial difficulties.
Private Practice Therapist
Lindsey Soennichsen LMFT
03.2022 - Current
- Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes and client records in accordance with licensing standards.
- Conducted intake and needs assessments to set therapeutic goals and establish professional relationships with clients.
- Collaborated with other mental health professionals to create comprehensive treatment plans.
- Delivered counseling services to families and couples dealing with familial issues.
- Leveraged practice management software to complete weekly progress notes, update quarterly treatment plans and maintain patient records.
- Asked questions to help clients identify feelings and behaviors.
- Countered problematic behavior with healthy alternatives to enhance mental, emotional and physical wellness and increase energy.
- Counseled clients on concerns such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation or financial difficulties.
- Effectively maintained caseload of 5 sessions per week using alternative therapies.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
VACCHCS
08.2019 - Current
- Assisted clients in locating resources to support progress such as housing services and financial assistance.
- Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes and client records in accordance with licensing standards.
- Collaborated with other mental health professionals to create comprehensive treatment plans, including psychiatrists and specialists such as IPV and Suicide prevention therapists.
- Rendered mental health and counseling services to couples, families and individual clients, focusing on development of healthy relationships.
- Delivered Gottman therapy counseling services to families and couples dealing with familial issues, including communication problems.
- Conducted intake and needs assessments to set therapeutic goals and establish professional relationships with clients.
- Countered problematic behavior with healthy alternatives to enhance mental, emotional and physical wellness and increase energy.
- Conducted intake and assessments to formulate treatment plan and manage client records.
- Garnered excellent reviews from individuals and couples and maintained long-term counseling relationships to provide ongoing care and support.
- Collaborated with social services, referral sources and other treatment professionals to meet patient care needs.
- Performed individual and group psychotherapy and conducted teletherapy sessions to help clients pinpoint emotions underlying personal and relational conflicts.
- Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
- Worked with over 48 couples in month to prevent divorce and facilitate reconciliation
Crisis Counselor 2-4 hours/month
R3 Continuum
9 2018 - Current
- On call employee assistance program consultant
- Disruptive event management
- Group and individual debriefing
- Normalization of emotions experienced after event
- Psycho-education with handouts provided
- Travel up to 30-40 miles for disruptive event
- Completes notes after job completion
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Antoinette Brookins And Associates
06.2019 - 03.2022
- Maintained accurate and thoroughly documented notes and client records in accordance with licensing standards.
- Rendered mental health and counseling services to adults, adolescent, children, family and marriage clients, focusing on development of healthy relationships.
- Countered problematic behavior with healthy alternatives to enhance mental, emotional and physical wellness and increase energy.
- Conducted intake and assessments to formulate treatment plan and manage client records.
- Performed individual and group psychotherapy and conducted teletherapy sessions to help clients pinpoint emotions underlying personal and relational conflicts.
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
- Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.
Specialized Academic Instruction 6 hours/week
Haynes Family Of Programs
8 2018 - 03.2020
- Behavior Intervention and support services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders
- Education in both social skills and education through education goals on IEP
- Services provided direct in student’s home or school
- Notes completed daily after completion of session
- Employment is dependent on student needing assistance in local area of counselor residence
- Flexible schedule based on nights and weekend hours
Military Family Life Counselor 40hr/week
Strategic Resources Inc.
10.2018 - 05.2019
- Provide community based direct counseling services to military service members of all branches and ranks depending on rotation and assignments- child youth behavioral embedded
- Certified to work with children and infants/toddlers
- Rotation on base of Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California
- Child youth behavior and school assignments
- Collaborated with teachers to define therapy objectives and analyze progress.
- Non-medical counseling is supportive in nature and addresses: conditions of living; life skills; improving relationships at home and at work; stress management; adjustment issues, such as those related to returning from deployment; marital problems; parenting, and fear, grief and loss.
- Counseling modalities consist of individual, family, couples and groups.
- Recorded client information on special flow sheets, accurately indicating concerns regarding behavior and interaction of children with each other in class, with teachers and with family.
- Group sessions with adolescent in teen center.
- Connected clients with community service and resource agencies.
- Kept abreast of new and developing information in mental health field by regularly attending professional conferences and workshops.
- Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to intervention.
- Displayed sensitivity of cultural and linguistic needs of the clients and families served.
Drug Counselor
Eminence Healthcare Inc. 36 Hours/week
03.2017 - 10.2018
- Encouraged participants to open up and share their thoughts at group counseling sessions.
- Maintained high level of patient confidentiality to comply with all federal and company regulations.
- Reviewed case files to better assess client needs and proper course of treatment.
- Kept abreast of new and developing information in mental health field by regularly attending professional conferences and workshops.
- Consulted with and trained highly skilled mental health and medical staff.
- Trained in substance abuse, co-occurring disorders and effect of employment and housing issues on mental health.
- Displayed sensitivity to the cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.
- Offered and documented treatment consent forms in patient health records.
- Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to treatment.
- Provided comprehensive case management services, including creating treatment plans and connecting clients and families to appropriate resources.
- Ran individual therapy and family therapy sessions for children ages 13 to 19.
Caseload Manager
Aegis Treatment Center 40 hours/week
03.2010 - 02.2017
- Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
- Developed and implemented treatment plans and modified when needed.
- Directed family-centered, strengths-based, culturally competent and individualized intakes and assessments.
- Trained in substance abuse, co-occurring disorders and effect of employment and housing issues on mental health.
- Connected clients with community service and resource agencies.
- Provided comprehensive case management services, including creating treatment plans and connecting clients and families to appropriate resources.
- Guided clients in effective therapeutic exercises integrated from Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
- Developed goal-oriented psychoeducational and activity therapy groups to improve clients’ level of functioning.
- Presented case history material to review and discussion with other staff members.
- Managed caseload of 45 patients with substance dependence and co-occurring Axis I and Axis II disorders.
- Customer Service
- Group Therapy
- Couples Therapy/marriage therapy
- Facilitating improvement of parent-child relational bonding
- Case Management Services
- Emotional Coping Skills
Counseling Intern
WestCare 15 hours/week
03.2009 - 06.2010
- Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
- Ran individual therapy and family therapy sessions for children ages 1 to 5 years old.
- Documented psychiatric services and responses to treatment in patient case files.
- Consulted with highly skilled mental health and medical staff.
- Family Therapy
Counseling Intern 15 hours/week
Salvation Army Svc Ctr
01.2009 - 03.2009
- Maintained up-to-date clinical documentation via electronic recordkeeping systems.
- Applied variety of psychological methods and techniques in screening, assessment, and evaluation of clients.
- Implemented specific interventions to decrease behavior excesses and increase behavioral deficits.
- Maintained high level of patient confidentiality to comply with all federal and company regulations.
- Reviewed case files to better assess client needs and proper course of treatment.
- Facilitated smooth discharge by encouraging and reassuring clients throughout transitions.
- Conducted therapeutic individual and family therapy sessions.
- Developed and implemented treatment plans and modified when needed.
- Observed and monitored client behavior and responses to treatment.
Education
Master of Science - Marriage, Family and Child Therapy
University of Phoenix
Fresno, CA2009
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Fresno State University
Fresno, CA2005
Associate of Arts - General Education
SCCCD Madera Center
Madera, CA06.2001
Skills
- Case management proficiency
- Self-motivated
- Strong verbal communication
- Active listening
- Treatment planning
- Therapeutic orientation: CBT, DBT, Bowen, and MI
- Adept in conflict resolution
- Completed 40 hour Batterer Intervention Prevention workshop with Marjoree Mason in domestic violence, 2015
- Adept in treatment and discharge planning
- Patient confidentiality
- DBT knowledgeable
- Telehealth proficiency
- Extremely organized
- Reflective listening
- Personality disorder treatment aptitude
- Nonviolent communication
- Collaborative approach
- Boundary setting
- Assertiveness training
- Self motivation
- Motivational interviewing
- Skilled in intake interviewing
- Biopsychosocial assessments
Certification
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT), 107875
Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor (CADC-CAS), C057250618
Timeline
Private Practice Therapist
Lindsey Soennichsen LMFT
03.2022 - Current
Mental Health Therapist
Path Mental Health
02.2022 - Current
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
VACCHCS
08.2019 - Current
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Antoinette Brookins And Associates
06.2019 - 03.2022
Military Family Life Counselor 40hr/week
Strategic Resources Inc.
10.2018 - 05.2019
Drug Counselor
Eminence Healthcare Inc. 36 Hours/week
03.2017 - 10.2018
Caseload Manager
Aegis Treatment Center 40 hours/week
03.2010 - 02.2017
Counseling Intern
WestCare 15 hours/week
03.2009 - 06.2010
Counseling Intern 15 hours/week
Salvation Army Svc Ctr
01.2009 - 03.2009
Master of Science - Marriage, Family and Child Therapy
University of Phoenix
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT), 107875
Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor (CADC-CAS), C057250618
Crisis Counselor 2-4 hours/month
R3 Continuum
9 2018 - Current
Specialized Academic Instruction 6 hours/week
Haynes Family Of Programs
8 2018 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Fresno State University
Associate of Arts - General Education
SCCCD Madera Center
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