Gladys Adiku
Gladys Ann Adiku, MA ------------, ------------
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Behavioral Therapy (BT) • Cognitive Reconstruction • Psychotropic medication and Side effects.
• Crisis Intervention and Crisis Stabilization Services • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) • Motivational Interviewing (MI) • Managing the unexpected
EDUCATION: 1. Master of Professional Counseling October 2009- May, 2014
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA Masters of Arts, Human Services • Relevant Coursework: Counselor Identity , Function& Ethics, Human Growth and Development, Research and Program Evaluation, Social and Cultural Foundations in Counseling, Counseling Techniques and Helping Relationship, Integration of Psychology and Theology, Theology and Spirituality in counseling, Theories of Counseling, Group Counseling, Individual Appraisal, Career Development and Counseling, Marriage and Family Counseling 1, Psychopathology and Counseling, Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, Diagnosis and Treatment of Addictive Behavior, Counseling the Adolescent, Premarital and Marital counseling, Crisis and First Responder Training: Skills and Techniques, and Crisis Counseling and Brief COUN (PACO & COUN). 2. University of Ghana Legon, P. O. Box 25 Accra Ghana B.A. Economics of With Social Work September 1992-June 1996 • Relevant Coursework: Basic Statistics, Economics I& Economics II, Social work I & II, Sociology I & II, Macroeconomics, Applied Mathematics, Economic Development and Growth, Methods of Social Work I, Social Theories for Social Policy, Microeconomics Theory I&II, Macroeconomics Theory I&II, Social Welfare and Social Policy, Econometrics, Cost Benefit Analysis, Economic Planning, Labor Economics, Money and Banking, Project Work.
EXPERIENCE:
Clearr Vission Support Service, Inc. Jan 2017- to Present. Job Title: IIH counselor, Outpatient Therapist. Duties and Responsibility:
• Complete clinical individualized treatment plan with goals and objectives, discharge criteria to address client and family needs. • Provide individual, dyad, and family sessions. • Complete all case documentation in accordance of with program policy and third party billing requirements. • Available on call for twenty –four-hours a day seven days a week. • Participate in weekly clinical staff supervision meetings with the program supervisor and other in-homeclinicians. • Initial Intake and Assessment.
Hargrove, Oliver, & Parker, INC Job Title: Mental Health Counselor , ( Resident in Counseling ) June 2016- Dec 2016 Duties and Responsibilities: • Managing caseload of 3 clients • Utilize evidence based practices such as; CBT, DBT, MI, MET, Cognitive Reconstruction, and BSFT to assist clients in achieving their recovery and treatment goals. • Maintains all applicable professional, legal and ethical standards, including confidentiality, dual relationship, and informed consent. • Attend staff meetings and social activities tailored to the needs of the program. Treatment Specialization: 1. Major Depression 2. Mood Disorders 3. Anxiety Disorders 4. Individual Counseling
Crossover Mental Health Ministry July 2015- Present Job Title: Outpatient Therapist (Resident in Counseling ) (Volunteer) Duties and Responsibilities:
• Deliver in-office services to clients (3 clients every other week in a month) • Provide therapeutic interventions to identified clients in order to enhance and foster clients’ optimal functioning • Conduct initial intake by administering PHQ-9 questionnaire/other screening questionnaires in diagnoses. • Provide appropriate documentation for service delivery including assessments, treatment goals, progress notes, discharge, and submit documentation as specified by the Ministry. • Work cooperatively with treatment team members in the provision of services to meet goals developed in the Person Center Plan • Documents telephone encounters, take action, up-date and reassign the encounter to another user if needed. • Attend staff meetings and social activities tailored to the needs of the program.
Treatment Specialization: 5. Major Depression 6. Personality Disorders 7. Mood Disorders 8. Anxiety Disorders 9. Individual Counseling 10. Disorders involving physical and psychological factors (Hypochondrias)
River City Comprehensive Counseling Services Petersburg VA October 2014 –January, 2016 Job Title: Mental He alth Counselor (Resident in Counseling) Duties and Responsibilities: • Managing caseload and provide direct clinical care including but not limited to: developing individual service plans/person centered plans (ISP/PCP); intervention and management; individual and group psychotherapy/counseling; psycho-educational sessions; and discharge/after care planning and implementation for clients, and clinical assessments. • Utilize evidence based practices such as; CBT, DBT, MI, MET, Cognitive Reconstruction, and BSFT to assist clients in achieving their recovery and treatment goals. • Maintains all applicable professional, legal and ethical standards, including confidentiality, dual relationship, and informed consent. • Worked in residential setting providing individual counseling services. • Worked with ACT/DUI groups and substance abuse clients. Treatment Specialization:
1 Major Depression 2 Personality Disorders 3 Mood Disorders 4 Anxiety Disorders 5 Psychotic Disorders 6 Individual Counseling 7 Group Counseling 8 Behavior & Impulse Control (Substance Abuse)
Interpersonal/Organizational Skills: • Active listener, service oriented, responsible and accountable, dedicated to work and very dependable. • Professional documentation /record: (BIRP, LAURIS ON LINE, SOAP) client’s behavior/mental health symptomology clinical interactions, and responses using the DMS-IV/-V, and other tools to accurately capture client’s psychiatric functioning. • Effectively and accurately submit clinical documentation on time without any duplication and ability to meet administrative deadlines.
River City Comprehensive Counseling Services, LLC, Richmond, VA June, 2013- October 2014 Intern- Mental Health Counseling
• Provided individual counseling to client with Axis 1 diagnosis from Crisis to Discharge. • Volunteered with Focused Outreach Richmond (Veteran’s Employment Program) in intake, orientation, and ONET Online. • Provided group psychotherapy for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Alcohol (ACT) Illness Management & Recovery Therapy (IMR), and Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT). • Provided crisis intervention. • Advocated for client in custody. • Researched into Cognitive Therapy (Brief-therapy), Motivational Interviewing, Anger Management, and Campus safety: Alcohol, Drugs & Sexual Assault Education
• Administered initial intake/ assessment of clients. Treatment Specialization: 1. Major Depression 2. Crisis Counseling 3. Mood Disorders 4. Anxiety Disorders 5. Behavior and Impulse Control Disorders (Substance Abuse) 6. Individual Counseling 7. Group Counseling
CERTIFICATIONS:
• Commonwealth of Virginia Board Approved Resident in Counseling - April 1, 2015 - present • CPR Certified (2018) • Crisis Wave (2018) • First Aid (2018)
Continuous Education (CEUs) NAADAC Counselor Webinar: • The Use of EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction – 2.00 CE Hours/Credits ( 12/20/15) • ACA and Addiction Treatment and Recovery: What every Addiction Professional Needs to Know – 1.00 CE Hours/Credits (11/16/2015) AACC Counselor Webinar: • Critical Issues and Challenges Impacting Veterans and their Families-2.00 CE Hours/Credits (11/15/2015) • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: A look into the Angry, Stressed and Anxious Brain- 3.00 CE Hours/Credits (9/4/2015) • Aspersers’ and Autism across the Life span: Challenges, Strength and Techniques from Childhood to Marriage2.00 CE Hours/Credit (9/4/2015) ACA Counselor Webinar: • Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy Techniques in School –based Group Counseling: Assisting Students in the Development of Social Skills-5.00 CE Hours /Credits (9/7/2015) Training: • Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) • Electronic Health Recorder (EHR) Eclinicalworks system. • 600-hour internship in community counseling agency • Completed DMAS 90-hour Paraprofessional Training
Community Service Experiences (Volunteering): • Crossover Healthcare Ministry Richmond VA • Blackwell Community Health Fair Richmond VA • Richmond Police Community Day Center Whitcomb VA • Hull Street Festival Richmond VA
Professional Membership: • The Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) October 2015 – present • Virginian Counseling Association (VAC) June 2015- present • American Counseling Association (ACA) October 2009 - present • American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) October 2009- present
REFERENCES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST
Gladys Ann Adiku, MA ------------, ------------
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Behavioral Therapy (BT) • Cognitive Reconstruction • Psychotropic medication and Side effects.
• Crisis Intervention and Crisis Stabilization Services • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) • Motivational Interviewing (MI) • Managing the unexpected
EDUCATION: 1. Master of Professional Counseling October 2009- May, 2014
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA Masters of Arts, Human Services • Relevant Coursework: Counselor Identity , Function& Ethics, Human Growth and Development, Research and Program Evaluation, Social and Cultural Foundations in Counseling, Counseling Techniques and Helping Relationship, Integration of Psychology and Theology, Theology and Spirituality in counseling, Theories of Counseling, Group Counseling, Individual Appraisal, Career Development and Counseling, Marriage and Family Counseling 1, Psychopathology and Counseling, Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, Diagnosis and Treatment of Addictive Behavior, Counseling the Adolescent, Premarital and Marital counseling, Crisis and First Responder Training: Skills and Techniques, and Crisis Counseling and Brief COUN (PACO & COUN). 2. University of Ghana Legon, P. O. Box 25 Accra Ghana B.A. Economics of With Social Work September 1992-June 1996 • Relevant Coursework: Basic Statistics, Economics I& Economics II, Social work I & II, Sociology I & II, Macroeconomics, Applied Mathematics, Economic Development and Growth, Methods of Social Work I, Social Theories for Social Policy, Microeconomics Theory I&II, Macroeconomics Theory I&II, Social Welfare and Social Policy, Econometrics, Cost Benefit Analysis, Economic Planning, Labor Economics, Money and Banking, Project Work.
EXPERIENCE:
Clearr Vission Support Service, Inc. Jan 2017- to Present. Job Title: IIH counselor, Outpatient Therapist. Duties and Responsibility:
• Complete clinical individualized treatment plan with goals and objectives, discharge criteria to address client and family needs. • Provide individual, dyad, and family sessions. • Complete all case documentation in accordance of with program policy and third party billing requirements. • Available on call for twenty –four-hours a day seven days a week. • Participate in weekly clinical staff supervision meetings with the program supervisor and other in-homeclinicians. • Initial Intake and Assessment.
Hargrove, Oliver, & Parker, INC Job Title: Mental Health Counselor , ( Resident in Counseling ) June 2016- Dec 2016 Duties and Responsibilities: • Managing caseload of 3 clients • Utilize evidence based practices such as; CBT, DBT, MI, MET, Cognitive Reconstruction, and BSFT to assist clients in achieving their recovery and treatment goals. • Maintains all applicable professional, legal and ethical standards, including confidentiality, dual relationship, and informed consent. • Attend staff meetings and social activities tailored to the needs of the program. Treatment Specialization: 1. Major Depression 2. Mood Disorders 3. Anxiety Disorders 4. Individual Counseling
Crossover Mental Health Ministry July 2015- Present Job Title: Outpatient Therapist (Resident in Counseling ) (Volunteer) Duties and Responsibilities:
• Deliver in-office services to clients (3 clients every other week in a month) • Provide therapeutic interventions to identified clients in order to enhance and foster clients’ optimal functioning • Conduct initial intake by administering PHQ-9 questionnaire/other screening questionnaires in diagnoses. • Provide appropriate documentation for service delivery including assessments, treatment goals, progress notes, discharge, and submit documentation as specified by the Ministry. • Work cooperatively with treatment team members in the provision of services to meet goals developed in the Person Center Plan • Documents telephone encounters, take action, up-date and reassign the encounter to another user if needed. • Attend staff meetings and social activities tailored to the needs of the program.
Treatment Specialization: 5. Major Depression 6. Personality Disorders 7. Mood Disorders 8. Anxiety Disorders 9. Individual Counseling 10. Disorders involving physical and psychological factors (Hypochondrias)
River City Comprehensive Counseling Services Petersburg VA October 2014 –January, 2016 Job Title: Mental He alth Counselor (Resident in Counseling) Duties and Responsibilities: • Managing caseload and provide direct clinical care including but not limited to: developing individual service plans/person centered plans (ISP/PCP); intervention and management; individual and group psychotherapy/counseling; psycho-educational sessions; and discharge/after care planning and implementation for clients, and clinical assessments. • Utilize evidence based practices such as; CBT, DBT, MI, MET, Cognitive Reconstruction, and BSFT to assist clients in achieving their recovery and treatment goals. • Maintains all applicable professional, legal and ethical standards, including confidentiality, dual relationship, and informed consent. • Worked in residential setting providing individual counseling services. • Worked with ACT/DUI groups and substance abuse clients. Treatment Specialization:
1 Major Depression 2 Personality Disorders 3 Mood Disorders 4 Anxiety Disorders 5 Psychotic Disorders 6 Individual Counseling 7 Group Counseling 8 Behavior & Impulse Control (Substance Abuse)
Interpersonal/Organizational Skills: • Active listener, service oriented, responsible and accountable, dedicated to work and very dependable. • Professional documentation /record: (BIRP, LAURIS ON LINE, SOAP) client’s behavior/mental health symptomology clinical interactions, and responses using the DMS-IV/-V, and other tools to accurately capture client’s psychiatric functioning. • Effectively and accurately submit clinical documentation on time without any duplication and ability to meet administrative deadlines.
River City Comprehensive Counseling Services, LLC, Richmond, VA June, 2013- October 2014 Intern- Mental Health Counseling
• Provided individual counseling to client with Axis 1 diagnosis from Crisis to Discharge. • Volunteered with Focused Outreach Richmond (Veteran’s Employment Program) in intake, orientation, and ONET Online. • Provided group psychotherapy for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Alcohol (ACT) Illness Management & Recovery Therapy (IMR), and Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT). • Provided crisis intervention. • Advocated for client in custody. • Researched into Cognitive Therapy (Brief-therapy), Motivational Interviewing, Anger Management, and Campus safety: Alcohol, Drugs & Sexual Assault Education
• Administered initial intake/ assessment of clients. Treatment Specialization: 1. Major Depression 2. Crisis Counseling 3. Mood Disorders 4. Anxiety Disorders 5. Behavior and Impulse Control Disorders (Substance Abuse) 6. Individual Counseling 7. Group Counseling
CERTIFICATIONS:
• Commonwealth of Virginia Board Approved Resident in Counseling - April 1, 2015 - present • CPR Certified (2018) • Crisis Wave (2018) • First Aid (2018)
Continuous Education (CEUs) NAADAC Counselor Webinar: • The Use of EMDR Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction – 2.00 CE Hours/Credits ( 12/20/15) • ACA and Addiction Treatment and Recovery: What every Addiction Professional Needs to Know – 1.00 CE Hours/Credits (11/16/2015) AACC Counselor Webinar: • Critical Issues and Challenges Impacting Veterans and their Families-2.00 CE Hours/Credits (11/15/2015) • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: A look into the Angry, Stressed and Anxious Brain- 3.00 CE Hours/Credits (9/4/2015) • Aspersers’ and Autism across the Life span: Challenges, Strength and Techniques from Childhood to Marriage2.00 CE Hours/Credit (9/4/2015) ACA Counselor Webinar: • Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy Techniques in School –based Group Counseling: Assisting Students in the Development of Social Skills-5.00 CE Hours /Credits (9/7/2015) Training: • Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) • Electronic Health Recorder (EHR) Eclinicalworks system. • 600-hour internship in community counseling agency • Completed DMAS 90-hour Paraprofessional Training
Community Service Experiences (Volunteering): • Crossover Healthcare Ministry Richmond VA • Blackwell Community Health Fair Richmond VA • Richmond Police Community Day Center Whitcomb VA • Hull Street Festival Richmond VA
Professional Membership: • The Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) October 2015 – present • Virginian Counseling Association (VAC) June 2015- present • American Counseling Association (ACA) October 2009 - present • American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) October 2009- present
REFERENCES FURNISHED UPON REQUEST