Yessenia Peña Guzman
Summary
Qualified School Counselor with solid background in providing comprehensive support to students, ensuring their academic and emotional well-being. Successfully implemented programs that enhanced student development and resolved conflicts effectively. Demonstrated proficiency in counseling techniques and crisis intervention.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Elementary School Counselor
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
08.2024 - Current
- Enhanced student emotional well-being by providing individual and group counseling sessions.
- Collaborated with teachers and administrators to address the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students.
- Developed a safe and supportive school environment by promoting positive behavior and addressing issues such as bullying and harassment.
- Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust, and rapport to deescalate situations.
- Implemented data-driven strategies to identify areas of need within the school population, leading to targeted interventions and support services.
- Coordinated with outside agencies to determine students receive appropriate services and resources.
- Facilitated restorative circles to address conflict between students, resulting in increased empathy and understanding
Middle School Counselor
South San Francisco Unified School District
08.2020 - 06.2024
- Provide individual counseling to students
- Crisis intervention
- Develop a competent counseling program
- Provide individual student planning and responsive services to support students and their families regarding academic matters.
- Consult, facilitate, and maintain communication with parents, teachers, administrators, and pertinent agents on specific student and parent academic and educational matters including academic modifications and/or accommodations.
- Participate on a Student Success Team, identify students who may need targeted or intensive services, and coordinates with behavioral health specialists.
- Communicate, coordinate, and collaborate with behavioral health specialists on developing and implementing student supports.
Bilingual Mental Health Clinician
Star Vista
08.2018 - 08.2020
- Provided in-home mental health support and community-based services to foster healthy cognitive, emotional and social development for children birth through age five and their families primarily utilizing CPP model and focused on safety, affect regulation, enhancing child/caregiver relationships and interactions while healing stress/trauma and supporting the child’s development trajectory.
- Provided appropriate psycho-education and case management services
- Collaborated with school staff and community partners to coordinate ethically appropriate, theoretically sound, culturally informed, and holistic interventions to address client issues and enhance client strengths
- Maintained timely and clinically appropriate documentation of all clinical services
Mentor Coordinator/Reentry Case Manager
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
12.2015 - 07.2018
- Responsible for 25 Mentors and Mentee (detained and or reentry) a year
- Conducted intakes and match mentors with prospective mentees
- Coordinated, support and monitor assigned Mentor and progress with mentee
- Provided reentry services and case management to mentees identified supporting mentors
- Prepared weekly curriculum and resources for mentors for their mentees
- Wrote/filed monthly and when requested weekly reports
- Accompanied clients to appointments and perform outreach for reentry youth supporting reentry plan
- Responsible for entering all mentors’ data into CMS
- Developed relationships with CBO service providers, juvenile probation personnel, Attorneys, and court
Education
M.A. - Counseling Psychology
University of San Francisco
05.2019
B.A. - Criminal Justice
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA03.2014
Skills
- Cultivates positive team dynamics
- Problem-solving strategist
- Effective communicator
- Effective time management
- Student advocate
- Parent-teacher collaboration
- Multicultural competence
- Mediation and crisis intervention
Languages
Spanish
Accomplishments
- Golden Apple 2023 SSFUSD Board of Trustees
- Kent Award in 2021 for SEL Curriculum"Wellness Wednesday".
Timeline
Elementary School Counselor
Mt. Diablo Unified School District
08.2024 - Current
Middle School Counselor
South San Francisco Unified School District
08.2020 - 06.2024
Bilingual Mental Health Clinician
Star Vista
08.2018 - 08.2020
Mentor Coordinator/Reentry Case Manager
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
12.2015 - 07.2018
B.A. - Criminal Justice
California State University, East Bay
M.A. - Counseling Psychology
University of San Francisco
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