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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
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
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
01.2013 - 01.2014

Group Program Director

Teen Parent Connection
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