Desired Living Counseling & Consultancy

As a Goal Oriented, Passionate, Resourceful Counseling Psychologist I am eager to apply my varied experience in handling crisis and offer intervention procedures. I am driven by the need to help people overcome challenges and live healthy lives. Intrinsically driven, I gear towards helping people through mentorship and coaching, selfless living and harmony. Further, I have keen interest in enhancing workplace relations to improve on relationship dynamics that in turn affect interaction, politics and productivity. My adept is in organizing developmental outreach, mentorship programs, goal setting and crisis intervention hence foster trust among people in the society.

July 2022 – Date: Kayu FM Resident Counselor

• Offering Mental Health talks on radio and psycho-social on subject matters.
• Offering expert opinion on subject matters on live radio as guided by the panelist.
• Offering tele and face to face counseling to listenership audience. 

July 2022 – Date: Radiant Group of Hospitals

• Mental Health Consultant.
• Offering psycho-social support to staff aiding the hospital counselor in handling staff who prefer a non-resident counselor.
• Implementing and facilitating staff trainings and empowerment by offering trainings and workshops through one on one and webinars

October 2022 – Date: Agility Logistics Limited

• Mental Health Consultant.
• Offering psycho-social support to staff in handling staff mental health needs. 
• Implementing and facilitating staff trainings and empowerment by offering trainings and workshops.

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022:  Minet Kenya Limited – Wellness / Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Counseling Psychologist: 

• Organizing and participating in wellness awareness talks when called upon by the wellness department.
• Implementing Employee Assistant Programs (EAP) through offering psychosocial support and counseling services in liaison with beneficiary companies’ wellness teams.
•  Offering client support through Listening to patients' concerns and fears on stress-management techniques, adjustment strategies for life changes, how to live normal lives and ways to improve relationships.
• Implementing and facilitating client training and empowerment by offering trainings and workshops through one on one and webinars
• Facilitating referrals for cases needing specialized counseling and psychiatry services.
• Manning the call center as the counselor on call during shift hours onsite and remotely.
• Providing psychotherapy to Minet Kenya clientele across the coverage network through Telephone, Virtual and Face to face, incorporating cognitive-behavioral, client-centered and Person-centered therapy to treat wide range of psychological problems in patients.
• Offering and organizing work-place therapy on an individual and group sessions, handling work related stress and workplace relations in order to enhance productivity and working relations.
• Working with other wellness counselors in implementing treatment goals for varying underlying issues such as drugs and substance use and abuse.
• Conducting counseling sessions through physical, telephone and virtual models. 
• Conducting client assessment and intake and developing treatment models. 
• Offering staff motivation programs to encourage work relations and productivity with emphasis on workplace cohesion and unity.
• Linking clients to other programs and community agencies to enhance treatment processes.
• Meeting regularly with other counselors and supervisors to assess individual cases and coordinate counseling services.
• Consulting with patients on issues pertaining to relationship issues, family, substance abuse, work, career and other problems.
• Provide clients with recommendations to community resources.
• Perform initial evaluations of client needs and develop customized treatment plans. 
• Educate staff and clients on stress and trauma coping mechanisms. 
• Provide individuals with the resources they need to reach personal goals. 
• Monitor client progress and modify their treatment plans as needed.
• Keeping comprehensive client data, and providing the company with weekly, monthly and quarterly reports when required.

Arrears of Focus

• Loss and Grief Counseling
• Stress Management Counseling
• Mental Health and Wellness 
• Stress and Anxiety Counseling 
• Depression and Suicide Prevention Counseling
• Drugs & Substance Addiction Counseling
• Self- Awareness Counseling 
• Trauma Counseling and Psychological First Aid
• Family & Marriage Counseling
• Relationships Issues

May 2019 – Date: Desired Living Counseling & Consultancy

Counseling Psychologist / Lead Counselor

• Offering counseling consultancy services to organizations on issues relating to mental health and wellness within organizations as part of improving employee mental care and awareness.
• Involved in creating employee mental health talks calendar in helping improve on productivity.
• Creating mental health management awareness to individuals and organizations. 
• Listening to patients' concerns and fears on stress-management techniques, adjustment strategies for life changes, how to live normal lives and ways to improve relationships.
• Provided psychotherapy incorporating cognitive-behavioral, client-centered, and person-centered therapy to treat wide range of psychological problems in patients.
• Offering work-place therapy on an individual and group sessions, handling work related stress and workplace relations to enhance productivity and working relations.
• Offering staff motivation programs to encourage work relations and productivity with emphasis on workplace cohesion and unity.
• Linking clients to other programs and community agencies to enhance treatment processes.
• Meeting regularly with other counselors and supervisors to assess individual cases and coordinate counseling services.
• Consult with patients on issues pertaining to relationship issues, family, substance abuse, work, career and other problems.
• Provide clients with recommendations to community resources.
• Managed private practice of twelve (12) clients per week.
• Perform client assessments and developed treatment plans.
• Create, implement, and evaluate developmental programs, presentations, workshops and other activities to facilitate patient growth.
• Offer individual outpatient therapy to adult clients with wide range of psychological problems, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, physical and sexual traumas, and psychotic disorders.
• Maintain confidential records related to individual patient treatment.
• Mitigating self-injuries and de-escalated life-threatening events such as suicidal ideations through effective crisis intervention and coordination of emergency services.
• Schedule, organize and deliver comprehensive presentations on effective treatment of depression, anxiety, anger and cognitive-behavioral skills to manage negative emotions.
• Consult with and trained highly skilled mental health and medical staff on matters requiring specialized care and prevention.
• Offering mentorship to youth with keen regard to highlight a purposeful living guided by principle and intrinsic drives and helping pay keen attention to goal setting and setting timelines for remedial routine review.
• Meeting students and listening to their grievances to come up with coping skills and personal development techniques with a keen interest on their personality development.
• Career guidance to Students both in low level (Primary) Middle (High school) and Tertiary (Universities and colleges) institutions across the country.
• Peer and Guidance and Counseling to Youth members in Churches across the country such as the Presbyterian Church and the Deliverance church.
• Training on Life skills and Personal development to various clients to enhance their problem- solving skills and Problem intervention.
• Offering Child handling and training skills to Church school and Boys & Girls Brigade teachers in the Presbyterian Church with keen emphasis on child development and capabilities.
• Maintain the Ethics code and the right to Privacy for all clients

Arrears of Focus

• Loss and Grief Counseling
• Stress Management Counseling
• Mental Health and Wellness 
• Stress and Anxiety Counseling 
• Depression and Suicide Prevention Counseling
• Drugs & Substance Addiction Counseling
• Self- Awareness Counseling 
• Trauma Counseling and Psychological First Aid
• Family & Marriage Counseling
• Relationships Issues

Skills

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
• Person Centered Therapy (PCT)
• Crisis Intervention
• Youth Mentorship
• Peer and Career Guidance
• Solution Focused Therapy (SFT). 

Masters of Science Organizational Psychology (Ongoing)

Bachelor of Arts Counseling Psychology

Trainer of Trainers