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Kathryn Bach

Warrenville

Summary

I am a dynamic clinical counseling intern with Wayne Winfield Area Youth Family Services looking to begin my counseling career. I am skilled in trauma-informed care and demonstrate multicultural competence and sensitivity. While successfully managing a diverse caseload, I enhanced client outcomes through evidence-based techniques and creative therapeutic approaches. I am passionate about fostering change and empowering clients, with a proven ability to communicate effectively across various professional settings.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Clinical Counseling Intern

Wayne Winfield Area Youth Family Services
Carol Stream, IL
08.2024 - Current
  • Carried a caseload of 8 individual cases and 3 support groups on a part-time status while working closely with my clinical supervisor and professional coworkers
  • Provided culturally sensitive counseling services, demonstrating respect for diversity and individual differences among clients.
  • Developed individual treatment plans, setting attainable goals tailored to each client''s specific needs.
  • Managed caseload effectively by prioritizing tasks based on urgency while maintaining required documentation standards.
  • Enhanced client progress by implementing evidence-based counseling techniques in individual and group therapy sessions.
  • Implemented motivational interviewing techniques to support clients'' readiness for change and facilitate their commitment to treatment goals.
  • Utilized trauma-informed care principles when working with clients who had experienced significant adverse life events, fostering a safe and supportive environment for healing.

Recreation Specialist

DuPage County Health Department
Wheaton, IL
03.2014 - 09.2018

Provided a daily menu of stimulating activities to improve quality of life for a floor of twenty men with Alzheimer's Disease.

Volunteer Refugee Adjustment Specialist

World Relief
Wheaton, IL
01.2013 - 01.2014

Group Program Director

Teen Parent Connection
Glen Ellyn, IL
03.2006 - 01.2011

I began my employment here by becoming a group services facilitator. By the second year, I was managing a small group of facilitators and planning curriculum.

The caseload for the group services program was approximately 50 teen-aged parents.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Social Work

Aurora University
Aurora, IL
06-2004

Skills

  • Demonstration of multicultural competence and sensitivity
  • Affinity for clients of all ages and developmental stages/delays
  • Eclectic use of counseling theories, often using a blend of Gestalt and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Use of various creative, expressive outlets to explore in session in addition to talk therapy
  • Great enthusiasm towards helping clients initiating change
  • Trauma-informed
  • Appropriate use of professional language
  • Communicates clearly with clients, other agencies, coworkers, and other professionals
  • Facilitates one anger management class and two parenting classes weekly
  • developed curriculum for and carried out two 12-weekly group sessions at the local middle school for at risk kids

Timeline

Clinical Counseling Intern

Wayne Winfield Area Youth Family Services
08.2024 - Current

Recreation Specialist

DuPage County Health Department
03.2014 - 09.2018

Volunteer Refugee Adjustment Specialist

World Relief
01.2013 - 01.2014

Group Program Director

Teen Parent Connection
03.2006 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science - Social Work

Aurora University
Kathryn Bach