Summary
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
Timeline
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Pamela Mackie

Therapist
Brooklyn,NY
Pamela Mackie

Summary

Highly motivated postgraduate student transitioning extensive retail staffing executive experience into mental health care discipline as a Marriage and Family Therapist and currently pursuing clinical experience for full licensure in a supervised private practice in NY, NJ, and GA. Maximizing master-level education, training, communication proficiency, and organization skills. Committed, passionate, and multiculturally attuned to empowering clients to develop skills and coping strategies for their desired lives.

Work History

Ibisanmi Relational Health
New York, NY

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
2023.08 - Current (2 education.years_Label)

Job overview

  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.

A New Creations Psychotherapy Services LLC
Fayetteville , GA

Masters Student MFT Intern
04.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Gained extensive telehealth counsel experience with private practice, focusing on healing and helping diverse client population, presenting problems not limited to grief/loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, infidelity, and relational conflict
  • Established and retained client roster of diverse demographics inclusive of over 25 individuals, couples, families, and groups of various ages, cultures, ethnicities, sexual identifications, and gender orientations
  • Augmented various industry-specific promotional, social media, and marketing platforms to solicit services and workshops
  • Developed therapeutic skills required for case conceptualization, diagnosis, and assessment
  • Illustrated distinguished professionalism in maintaining client case notes and treatment plans, exhibited in writing, communication, and organizational skills
  • Adheres to and applies high ethical and legal standards in clinical practice utilizing AAMFT code of ethics
  • Demonstrates high level of competency in client-therapeutic relations based on referrals and client feedback
  • Gained professional competence in utilizing post-modern models of Narrative Therapy and Solutions Focused Therapy core concepts, theory of dysfunction, change, therapist's stance, and interventions/tools
  • Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement

Bloomingdales
New York City, NY

DIRECTOR COSMETICS BRANCH STORE STAFFING
02.2001 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Awarded and promoted merchandise planner in multiple fashion categories
  • Conducted multifaceted strategies for product planning, staffing, jobs, budgets, training, and assignments, collaborating with buying teams, store executives, and vendors
  • Delivering planned profit margins through relationships and communication of coordinated efforts
  • Proven agility in learning and championing new systems for workforce productivity improvement in collaborative effort with various managerial stakeholders
  • Supported 1,300 cosmetics staff employees navigating life stressors of child care, relocation, and financial concerns, with resolution and emotional support
  • Built and strengthened productive alliances and valuable industry partnerships nationally and internationally to drive collaboration, engagement, and profitability margins above plan
  • Focused corporate partners on developing innovative and cutting-edge approaches for building staffing budgets at all levels with effective resource allocation and strategic planning
  • Created annual cosmetics staffing budget of over 60 million dollars and developed comprehensive plans for 33 stores by over 100 vendors to accomplish company objectives while staying within budget.

Education

Capella University
Minneapolis, MN

Master of Science from Marriage And Family Therapy
03.2020 - 04.2023

University Overview

Southern Connecticut State University

Bachelor of Science from Specialization Business Administration
1988

University Overview

Skills

  • Solid foundation in Systemic Model Theories
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Behavioral Therapy Techniques
  • Solution-Focused Techniques
  • Mindfulness and Guided Imagery
  • Intakes, Assessments and Treatment Planning
  • Interventions and Therapeutic process
  • Therapy, Counseling and Coaching
  • Individual and Group Therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Multicultral attunement

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Co-lead grief and loss counseling group for Emmanuel Baptist Church (EBC) Turning Point Ministry. Providing technical, administrative, marketing, and counseling support.
  • Collaborated with various professional mental health disciplines for planning EBC Turning Point Ministry workshops highlighting mental health, current events, and topics of interest to the community.
  • Devoted volunteer for One Community not-for-profit organization with bi-monthly food delivery to over 150 seniors and impoverished families since the pandemic 2021.
  • Capella University Presidents List Winter 2022
  • Awarded Bloomingdale's "Best of the Best" Merchandise Planner 2004 and 2007.

Affiliations

Affiliations
  • American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
  • MFT World Wide
  • The National Leadership of Success (NLS)
  • Delta Kappa, The International Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society, Pi Chapter

Certification

  • Contemporary Theory in Couple and Family Systems, Capella University, March 2021
  • Prepare and Enrich Facilitator
  • Relationship Coach Certified
  • Life Coach Certified

Timeline

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
Ibisanmi Relational Health
2023.08 - Current (2 education.years_Label)
Masters Student MFT Intern
A New Creations Psychotherapy Services LLC
04.2021 - Current
Capella University
Master of Science from Marriage And Family Therapy
03.2020 - 04.2023
DIRECTOR COSMETICS BRANCH STORE STAFFING
Bloomingdales
02.2001 - 03.2020
Southern Connecticut State University
Bachelor of Science from Specialization Business Administration
Pamela MackieTherapist