Alycia Burant Email and Phone Number

Experienced Independent Business Owner with demonstrated history of working in the mental health care industry. Skilled in prevention, behavioral health, management, and healthcare. Strong entrepreneurship professional licensed as a professional counselor in the state of Virginia. www.healthyminds-therapy.comPlease contact us at 540-845-6940 to schedule an appointment or inquire about career opportunities. We have two locations in Northern Virginia to include Alexandria and Fredericksburg.

Alycia Burant is a Clinical Therapist with over six years experience providing direct patient care to adults, adolescents, children, and families. She provides a safe, supportive, encouraging environment by creating a solid foundation for personal healing and development. Alycia works to create a relationship with the client to promote success and empowerment. She recognizes that the patient is the expert on their life and takes a collaborative approach to achieve identified goals. Alycia uses a strength-based approach, building on a person’s positive qualities. She recognizes success is measured differently by everyone and tailors treatment to best meet the needs of each patient.

Provides clinical services to patients and families as part of a multidisciplinary team. Clinical interventions are focused on assessment, crisis stabilization, psycho education and disposition planning. Thoroughly completes psychosocial assessments of all patients assigned. Provides individual/family therapy sessions appropriate to clients needs. Provides group therapy appropriate to population. Collaborates with attending physician and nursing staff regarding safety, treatment and discharge.

Functions as an educational decision-maker by being actively involved in the implementation of a comprehensive, developmental professional school counseling program.

Provide intensive in-home counseling services to families. Hold family sessions with each case 3 times a week scheduled at the convenience of the families. Provide on-call availability to families during the week and rotate being on call one weekend a month with other counselors.

Conducts and assists in treatment of mental health patients. Performs initial assessment procedures. Assists in identifying mental health and nursing diagnosis, treatments, patient education, and disposition planning. Plans and supervises mental health service activitiesEfficiently manages preparation and maintenance of records and reports pertaining to specialty servicesSupervises and performs administrative duties in a timely manner

Tapped by renowned ophthalmologists to bring organization and friendly customer service to a satellite office location. Organized patient schedules for five ophthalmologists. Responsible for the successful day to day operations in the office. Aided in accurate completion of insurance documentation. Gained resourceful administrative professional knowledge, became accustomed to taking ownership and delivering on promisesEffectively managed confidential and sensitive issuesEstablished rapport with clients

Provided employees and their dependents counseling, crisis support services, and professional referrals in a confidential manner. Conducted behavioral health assessments and provided referrals for short-term problem solving. Managed clinical case work and documentation. Assisted in incident response management for work trauma (i.e. train derailments). Presented consultation and training to management and human resource professionals. Expanded on conducting thorough intake assessmentsGained vast variety of knowledge about appropriate community referral resourcesParticipated in a variety of trainings and seminars to expand applicable knowledge when working with clients

Functioned as a residential counselor for runaway and abused teenagers, focused on emotional and behavioral improvement. Led mandatory group sessions for a variety of individuals through their entire stay at the shelter. Provided effective professional individual/group counseling to an underserved populationIntervened in individual crisis situationsConducted initial intakes with youth upon arrival to the shelter

Examined the effects of hostility on affective verbal learning in womenOrganized data into Excel files/managed resultsAssisted with electroencephalogram (EEG) testsMonitored and assisted research participants

management and marketing of the crisis hotline. Managed and optimized volunteers to provide the best services to the hotline population.Promoted increased volunteer involvement through fundraising events and advertisementsTrained new volunteers (trained 35 new volunteers Spring 2006)Recognized by superiors for effective listening and crisis intervention with callersAided in completion of official documents for government fundingAdvised volunteers while on-call for emergencies 15 days a month

Provided paraprofessional phone counseling/empathetic listening to callers from five surrounding counties.Intervened in individual crisis situationsEncouraged recovery in mental health and substance abuse callersProvided nonjudgmental advice for callers