EPIPHANIA E.

BONSI
828-773-9937 eebonsi@yahoo.com FULL TIME COUNSELOR CAREER SUMMARY

Creative and talented with 10+ years of extensive experience in mental health. Combines strong skills in administration, organization and communication in providing counseling services. Successful in utilizing a variety of theoretical approaches for mental health. Highly skilled in incorporating diagnostic assessments into counseling process. Consistently successful in team planning, program management and triage services. Proven ability in offering an unmatched commitment to my clients, leading them to resolve their concerns and making meaningful decisions.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS Have demonstrated skills & ability working as a collaborative partner on an interdisciplinary team for 4+ years that led to team meeting deadlines. Supervised 20 graduate interns in psychology as part of their requirements for graduation. Facilitated 20 support and process groups yielding better decision making and adjustment in school. Contributed new cultural practices during university cultural week resulting in record attendance and recognition by university president. Managed career preparation programs for 100 high school students as program director. Increased career counseling education enrollments from 29 students to 500 in one year by imparting career search skills to university students. Increased enrollment at the counseling center by expanding services provided at the center.

AREAS OF EXPERTICE Distinguished career in mental health delivery and administration for 10+ years. Core competencies include: Clinical Services to Include Triage, Crisis and On-Call Services: Provided therapy to individuals with deep psychological problems. During intake assigned degrees of urgency to clients needs and ensured they received appropriate help. Served on-call after hours and weekends as clinician on duty, providing crisis counseling to students. Departmental leadership: Administered day-to-day functioning of center to university of 10,000 students. Prepared schedules for Psychologists and Psychiatrists and ensure that students received help around the clock. Represented center at meetings. Developed an annual budget. Staff/Intern training and management: Trained staff in record keeping of clients they provided services for. Taught skills in brief therapy. Provided supervision to masters and doctoral level students, helping them to improve skills, reading their client records, watching videos and

provided one-on-one guidance in ethical conduct in all aspects of their work, including teaching, research, practice and administration. Individual/career/group and family counseling: provided services to assist students in meeting their
personal and mental health needs and goals. Called their attention to available resources of individual and group therapy as well as psychiatric consultations to meet the needs of most students. Made

appointments for follow-up clients. Consultation/Campus & Residence Life/Community Outreach: Offered consultations to students,
faculty, staff and parents on questions about situations and issues related to students and student-life problems. Offered workshops to enhance students' personal growth and development. Workshops included such topics as Dealing with Grief, Performance Anxiety, Managing Stress, Relationships, Dealing with Depression and How to Recognize Students who may be Distressed. Additional programming was also provided to residence halls and to other organizations and departments on campus.

Team building: Enhanced team building by ensuring team members understood the centers expectations of them. Members were committed to accomplishing the teams mission and expected outcome. Had the appropriate people participating in the team to address issues for which the team was formed. Worked together effectively interpersonally and resulted in creative thinking, unique solutions and new ideas. Multicultural counseling: Provided awareness of the effects of therapists and clients attitudes and believes, knowledge and skills on the counseling process and results..

CAREER PROGRESSION ADJUNCT LECTURER ADJUNCT LECTURER THERAPIST CLINICAL SPECIALIST/TEAM LEADER STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST DIRECTOR/COUNSELOR EDUCATION Ph.D. MA B.Sc. Counseling Psychology Counseling Home Economics University of Nebraska-Lincoln Louisiana Tech University Tuskegee University Chesapeake College Community College of Baltimore County Home Share VT Bluegrass Oakwood Appalachian State University University of Ghana, Legon 2011 to present 2010 2009 to 2010 2006 to 2008 2005 to 2006 1992 to 2000

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS KENTURKY PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ALUMNI

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