Tanya Chavez
El Paso,TX
Summary
Compassionate Mental Health Specialist with a background in behavioral health management and crisis intervention. Proficient at developing patient-specific mental health treatment plans, counseling, and therapeutic techniques. Strong communication skills, team collaboration, and a deep understanding of ethical standards in mental health practices. Demonstrated ability to make significant improvements in patients' quality of life through the delivery of effective therapies and interventions.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Qualified Mental Health Professional
New Leaf Wellness Center
06.2025 - Current
- Responsible for direct care to consumers in the clinic, community or in the home
- Responsible for coordination, planning, and implementation of treatment plans
- Working flexible hours and responding to a crisis with patients during assigned hours and consult after hours by phone
- Ensures all patients have current assessments and treatment plans per regulatory requirements and that services are in line and authorized by assessment and treatment plan
- Monitors assigned caseload
- Ensures compliance per State rules and standards
- Staffs with Chief Medical Officer or Chief of PSR when clinical issues are identified
- Ensures that minimum hours are met for all patients assigned
- CANS/ANSA Certified
Qualified Mental Health Professional
Atlantis Behavioral Health Services
06.2024 - 05.2025
- Responsible for direct care to consumers in the clinic, community or in the home
- Responsible for coordination, planning, and implementation of treatment plans
- Working flexible hours and responding to a crisis with patients during assigned hours and consult after hours by phone
- Ensures all patients have current assessments and treatment plans per regulatory requirements and that services are in line and authorized by assessment and treatment plan
- Monitors assigned caseload
- Ensures compliance per State rules and standards
- Staffs with Chief Medical Officer or Chief of PSR when clinical issues are identified
- Ensures that minimum hours are met for all patients assigned
- CANS/ANSA Certified
Program Coordinator
Communities in Schools of El Paso, Clint High School
04.2024 - 05.2024
- Responsible for the overall planning and management of Communities in Schools of El Paso, Inc. operations at the assigned campus.
- Collaborates with school administrators, staff, and teachers in the implementation of the Communities in Schools (CIS) model, which may include interns, volunteers, and other community partners.
- Develop and implement the site plan. The plan will include measurable objectives, as well as procedures for delivering school-wide services, targeted and sustained services, monitoring and adjusting services, and evaluating and reporting effectiveness.
- Case manages targeted students through sustained services that will be coordinated and provided at the school site for specific students who are identified as having the greatest risk.
- Monitor and adjust services, as needed to maximize effectiveness and impact.
- Evaluate the effectiveness at achieving school and student individualized goals by implementing a systematic data collection plan (CIS-NAV) to evaluate the effectiveness of services in achieving school-wide goals and addressing the needs of individual students.
- Provide school and affiliate leadership required reports which are instrumental in planning and monitoring site services.
- May assist and facilitate the onboarding process and act as a coach to new CIS staff members.
Gallery Curator Assistant
Ysleta ISD
12.2021 - 04.2024
- Company Overview: Fine Arts Department
- Help support the creation, implementation, and presentation of programs in the gallery and Fine Arts Complex in alignment with the district's Vision Statement and Fine Arts Department's Mission Statement under the supervision of the Fine Arts Director
- Photograph and prepare artwork for art exhibits, assist in the design and mounting of art in a manner appropriate for each exhibit.
- Prepare gallery walls as necessary, assist with coordination of gallery events, workshops, and exhibits through designing invitations, programs, labels, and managing hospitality, maintain a variety of invitation lists; select and mail invitations to district and community members.
- Assist in the pickup and delivery of artwork; package artwork and ship, when necessary, maintain and update calendar of events, helps with art workshops and district events.
- Assist with gallery volunteers through recruitment, training, record keeping and communication with district and community volunteer organizations, work flexible schedule setting up exhibits and for special events, as needed, use district purchasing software to order gallery supplies, keep record of budget and expenses for gallery, attendance at the work site is required to meet essential functions of the job.
- Fine Arts Department
Early College Secretary
Socorro ISD
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Maintains a schedule of appointments and makes appointments for conferences and interviews.
- Assists in collection of records and data for Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), registration and student scheduling when appropriate.
- Keeps El Paso Community College (EPCC) grades on record and enters into Tyler.
- Assists in coordinating events for the Early College program and helps keep fundraising records.
- In charge of issuing and checking in college textbooks, upholds and adheres to safety rules and policies of the Socorro ISD safety program.
Scheduling/PEIMS Clerk
Socorro ISD
10.2020 - 07.2021
- Maintain master schedule, teacher catalog, and room catalog in the student information system, maintain proper course placement of students for appropriately assigned special program in the student information system.
- Maintains PEIMS data in the student information system, maintains Next Year Scheduling Modules to ensure timely student schedules, scans and posts grade forms and corrects errors produced by post log, processes selective mark list for missing grades, transfers attendance data to report card module in the student information system, calculates semester mark slot average, processes report card calculations for distribution of credit/GPA/rank determinations, maintains loss of credit in the student information system.
- Generates and distributes report cards, processes failure lists; notifies appropriate district personnel.
Assistant Principals’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
01.2018 - 10.2020
- In charge of all recruiting, data entry, acceptance and rejections for the Riverside High School Vocational Program Coordinated all Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) meetings for the IGC coordinator.
- Discipline data entry, Discipline Alternative Education Program (DAEP) paperwork and data entry.
- Assisted the Language Proficient Assessment Committee (LPAC) coordinator with all LPAC processes and protocols to include: identifying new LPAC students, administering initial placement testing for all new students, obtained IOWA and Language Assessment Scales (LAS) Links test administrator certification, all LPAC data entry, game worker, money handling.
Counselors’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
04.2017 - 01.2018
- Maintain counselor schedule's.
- Coordinated all IGC meetings and data entry.
- Oversee all student courtesies and entered and posted grades for students every third, six- and nine-week grading periods.
- Oversee all substitute teachers and coordinate coverage for teachers who were out.
- Maintained records for all senior students, graduation status and community services hours, ran reports for the assistant principal and principal.
Campus Clerk/Receptionist
Ysleta ISD
03.2015 - 04.2017
- Review, refer and answer routine correspondence, telephone, and electronic messages; greet public and route requests for information.
- Establish and maintain manual and automated record filing systems for campus or department as assigned.
Counselors’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
11.2010 - 03.2015
- Maintain all records for graduating Senior students, to include but not limited to community service hours, graduation status, Distinguished Achievement Program (DAP) students, NHS students, Top 10% students, and all student rankings.
- Coordinated all commencement exercises to include senior seating arrangement, name cards, roll call, and recognition of students, test proctor for SAT/ACT testing, process and enter data into computer or report format.
- Research reports and requests for information; extract information and supporting data to assist the administrator.
Education
M.S. - Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Capella University
Minneapolis, MN12.2026
B.S. - Social Psychology
Park University
El Paso, TX07.2023
Skills
- Client-centered counseling methods
- Crisis intervention
- Patient-centered treatment planning
- Comprehensive case coordination
- Data-driven decision making
- Program coordination
- Team collaboration
- Child and adolescent services
- Effective communication
- Patient assessment
- Suicide risk assessment
- Multicultural competence
- Psychopharmacology
- Behavioral assessment
- Clinical documentation
- Psychotherapy techniques
- Autism spectrum support
- Mental health diagnosis
- Self-harm prevention
- Empathy development
- Psychosocial assessment
- Conflict de-escalation
- Family support coordination
- Building professional relationships
- Building therapeutic relationships
- Case documentation
- Client support
Certification
- Ask. Listen. Refer – Suicide Prevention Certification, 09/01/22
- FEMA Certification – Incident Command System, ICS-100, 03/01/23
- Cultural Competency Curriculum for Disaster Preparedness and Crisis Response, 03/01/23
- Psychological First Aid (PFA), 04/01/23
- Telemental Health, 01/01/24
Accomplishments
- American Psychological Association, 01/01/25, Member since January 2025
- Chi Sigma Iota, Chi Upsilon Chi Chapter, 04/01/25, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program Representative, April 2025
- Chi Sigma Iota, Chi Upsilon Chi Chapter, 01/01/25, Member since January 2025
- Capella University President’s List, 09/01/24, Fall Term 2024, Winter Term 2025, Spring 2025, Summer Term 2025
- The National Society of Leadership and Success, 01/01/24, Member since 2024, Capella University Chapter
- The National Society of Leadership and Success, 01/01/21, Member since 2021, Park University Chapter
- Park University Dean's List, 04/01/22, Spring 2022
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Qualified Mental Health Professional
New Leaf Wellness Center
06.2025 - Current
Qualified Mental Health Professional
Atlantis Behavioral Health Services
06.2024 - 05.2025
Program Coordinator
Communities in Schools of El Paso, Clint High School
04.2024 - 05.2024
Gallery Curator Assistant
Ysleta ISD
12.2021 - 04.2024
Early College Secretary
Socorro ISD
07.2021 - 12.2021
Scheduling/PEIMS Clerk
Socorro ISD
10.2020 - 07.2021
Assistant Principals’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
01.2018 - 10.2020
Counselors’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
04.2017 - 01.2018
Campus Clerk/Receptionist
Ysleta ISD
03.2015 - 04.2017
Counselors’ Clerk
Ysleta ISD
11.2010 - 03.2015
M.S. - Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Capella University
B.S. - Social Psychology
Park University
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