Sharon Watson
Suffolk,VA
Summary
Mental health professional emphasizing client advocacy and strengths-based care. Excels at developing innovative and comprehensive treatment plans that leverage patients’ existing support networks.
High-energy mental health professional motivated to help every client learn healthy means of dealing with mental and emotional difficulties. Dedicated to providing compassionate, results-oriented and solution-focused care.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Case Manager Personal Affairs Management
Jewsish Family Services
5000 Corporate Woods Drive Suite 300 Virginia Beach Virginia
08.2016 - Current
- Assess need for, obtained and interpreted appropriate placement.
- Effective counseling in health maintenance and disease management
- Processed monthly reports for department performance.
- Liaised between patients, physicians, facilities and families to ensure patient comprehension of treatment plans.
- Closely monitored acute conditions.
- Documented patient information obtained from interviews.
- Provided on-call care at all times of day and night.
- Scheduled patient admissions and discharges.
- Consulted with and trained highly skilled mental health and medical staff.
Mental Health Tech
Cook Community Support Services
Bridge Road SUffolk VA
03.2016 - 08.2016
- Supported duties for diagnostic and technical treatment procedures, such as implementing the treatment plan
- Follow and identify Client Goals
- Document interactions that have either increased or decreased as a result of treatment.
- implement interventions as described, for each goal,
- Document client Perspective: of goals and interventions whether client participates, agrees or disagrees with methods
- Identify and report behavior cycling
- Support diagnostic procedures, enter information in patient records and charts.
Teacher Alternative Education
East End Academy Inc
Newport News, Virginia, United States
09.2015 - 05.2016
- Worked with other teachers and administrators to evaluate and revise school programs that meet the needs of behaviorally challenging students from the ages of 12 through 18.
- Develop education and treatment plans that address emotional and educational needs of the individual students.
- Assist Mental Health support implement and develop treatments that effectively integrate student needs for success in a classroom environment and meet the educational goals.
Special Education Instructional Assistant
Suffolk Public Schools
Suffolk, Virginia, United States
08.2014 - 08.2015
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with the master schedule.
- Modify instructional plan to meet the individual needs of the child as determined by treatment plan developed by Individual Education Plan team.
- Document students success and reactions to goals and interventions,
Counselor Tech
Self-Recovery LLC
Fairview St Franklin
06.2013 - 01.2015
- Lead group therapy sessions 7 times a day.
- Conduct 2 one-on-one counseling sessions per day.
- Counsel individuals experiencing withdrawal symptoms from opioids, alcohol, and cocaine
- Counsel individuals with mental health disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.
- Explained available substance abuse treatment services to clients.
- Counsel clients to help them understand and overcome personal, social and behavioral problems.
- Consulted with clients developing long-term treatment plan goals and objectives to cope with lifelong addiction symptoms.
- Explained available substance abuse treatment services to clients.
- Developed and distributed relevant and comprehensive written materials on addiction and recovery.
Team Leader
Circle of Friends LLC
Suffolk, Virginia, United States
02.2011 - 03.2013
- Help each patient understand his or her illness and the contributing personal, social and economic factors.
- Consult with and trained highly skilled mental health.
- Offered and documented treatment consent forms in patient health records.
- Collected and analyzed data on individual clients using records, tests, interviews and professional sources.
- Lead daily-member women's counseling group to discuss topics such as eating disorders and relationship issues.
- Counseled residents with mental health disorders such as schizoaffective disorder and depression.
Subance Abuse Counselor
Self-Recovery LLC
Fairview St Franklin VA
03.2015 - 05.2016
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administratin
1996
Master of Science - Education
1999
Associate of Science - theology
Current
Skills
- Case management
- Crisis intervention techniques
- Daily living activities educator
- Culturally-sensitive
- Reliable
- Learning disability familiarity
Timeline
Case Manager Personal Affairs Management - Jewsish Family Services
08.2016 - Current
Mental Health Tech - Cook Community Support Services
03.2016 - 08.2016
Teacher Alternative Education - East End Academy Inc
09.2015 - 05.2016
Subance Abuse Counselor - Self-Recovery LLC
03.2015 - 05.2016
Special Education Instructional Assistant - Suffolk Public Schools
08.2014 - 08.2015
Counselor Tech - Self-Recovery LLC
06.2013 - 01.2015
Team Leader - Circle of Friends LLC
02.2011 - 03.2013
limestone College - Bachelor of Science, Business Administratin
Wheelock College - Master of Science, Education
Virginia Union-Samuel DeWitt Proctor Scholl of THeology - Associate of Science, theology
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