Tanaya Bhagwat
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Self-directed Mental Health Counsellor offering a 2-year background providing individual counselling to adults and adolescents with chronic and severe mental illness. Polished in administering thorough assessments, designing and implementing effective treatment plans. Experienced in successfully managing caseload of 25-30 individual clients while conducting intake, curating reports and support plans for NDIS clients. Observant individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills builds meaningful relationships with clients and families. Experienced in working with clients from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. Offers crisis intervention to help individuals navigate through traumatic experiences. Committed to helping facilitate positive changes in lives of others.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Mental Health Counsellor
Flourish Holistic Services
09.2023 - Current
- Paid private practice placement as part of coursework under supervision.
- Counselling NDIS clientele- provided therapy to individuals, couples, verbal & non-verbal, and psycho-education to clients and their families to help clients manage and overcome mental health challenges.
- Conducted sessions at client's homes, in school, and/or clinic-based setting. Led Intake sessions and documented sensitive client information, to facilitate successful intake processes.
- Built rapport with diverse client populations, utilizing empathetic listening skills and culturally sensitive therapeutic practices.
- Developed individualized goal-setting tools to empower patients in taking ownership of their progress towards improved mental health.
- Implemented self-care practices for personal wellbeing and modeled healthy coping strategies for clients to emulate in their own lives.
- Evaluated client progress using standardized assessment tools, continuously refining treatment plans to address changing needs.
- Employed methodologies such as cognitive behavioural therapy to assist patients. Used advanced counselling skills and evidence-based practices to establish goals and treatment plans for clients with complex issues.
- Maintained detailed documentation of clinical notes, and progress reports tracking patient progress throughout course of treatment.
- Presented case history material to review and discuss with university supervisor other students during group supervision.
Service Coordinator
Extend (Before and After School Care)
02.2023 - 08.2023
- Admin (signing in, headcounts every 30minutes, etc.)
- Ensuring service standards (safety hazard risks, cleanliness, space per sq feet) are met.
- Daily observations and evaluations of children’s behaviours, and follow-ups.
- Circumstantial provision of counsel to children within company confidentiality norms (3-12 y/o)
- Program Planning – developing diverse range of practical/visionary/theme-based plan-each week for every term using educational yet fun activities
- First Aid and Emergency (including evacuation drills)
- Budget management
- Liaising with stakeholders (supervisors, managers, school principals, teachers, families, maintenance, cleaners, etc..) to ensure sound day-day functioning and professional development.
Aged Care Volunteer
We Volunteer Aged Care
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Trained to be an aged care support volunteer (20 hours) with Altura
- Building trust with clients affected by isolation and loneliness, two hours a week
- Talking to and assigning tasks individual to meet specific client needs
- Utilized knowledge of community resources to refer clients to appropriate sources.
Provisional Counsellor
Boronia West Primary School
08.2022 - 11.2022
- Classroom Observations
- Face to Face student counselling, maintained case notes and regular check-ins with stakeholders
- Used techniques- Art & Play Therapy, Counselling skills like Circular & Magic Questioning, probing, motivational interviews, paraphrasing, advanced empathy and/or CBT.
Volunteer
Spark-A-Change Foundation
05.2018 - 07.2018
- Teaching language and math to indigent children between 6-15 years of age
- Helping children resolve interpersonal difficulties by playing educational games
- Assisted with convincing underprivileged families to encourage their children to go to school and spreading awareness about urgency and benefits of education by working with organization over two months
- Participated in meetings to establish new teaching techniques to improve basics.
Education
Master of Counselling -
Monash University
Melbourne, VIC07.2024
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology -
Raheja College Of Arts And Commerce
India01.2018
Skills
- A keen listener and effective communicator
- Ability to take risks to resolve conflicts or while performing leadership role
- Comfortable and constructive while working in groups or individually
- Goal-oriented, hard-working, honest
- Sensitive to gender, and cultural diversity
- Risk Assessments
- Crisis Intervention
- Treatment Planning
- Individual Counseling
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) expert
- Child and Adolescent Counseling
- Play therapy techniques
- Skilled in intake interviewing
- Empathy Development
- Grief counseling
- Patient Evaluation
- Goal Setting
- Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED (First Aid CPR AED)
Certification
- Barista Essentials (April 2019)
- Graphology (July 2018)
- Neurolinguistic Program (October 2018)
- Working with Children's Employee Check WWCC (February 2023)
Hobbies and Interests
I am passionate about dance, music and poetry. Along with that hitting the gym regularly is like meditation and a stress buster. I also enjoy video editing and photography.
Additional Information
Visa conditions
Valid student visa until August, 2024.
Due to apply for a Subclass 485 (full working rights) visa shortly after.
Referees
References available on request
Timeline
Mental Health Counsellor
Flourish Holistic Services
09.2023 - Current
Service Coordinator
Extend (Before and After School Care)
02.2023 - 08.2023
Provisional Counsellor
Boronia West Primary School
08.2022 - 11.2022
Aged Care Volunteer
We Volunteer Aged Care
06.2022 - 06.2023
Volunteer
Spark-A-Change Foundation
05.2018 - 07.2018
Master of Counselling -
Monash University
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology -
Raheja College Of Arts And Commerce
- Barista Essentials (April 2019)
- Graphology (July 2018)
- Neurolinguistic Program (October 2018)
- Working with Children's Employee Check WWCC (February 2023)
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