Carlea Atkinson Ma, Lcmhca, Ncc Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Counsels clients individually and in group sessions of all age ranges and cultural backgrounds, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes. Ensuring to maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients treatment, diagnosis and interventions. Guides clients in the development of skills and strategies to cope with their identified problem areas.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Responsible for the planning and management of Communities In Schools (CIS) operations at the site and the implementation of the CIS model of integrating student services in compliance with TQS standards. I identify and assess/access the needs of enrolled students. This position will work directly with students and families to improve attendance, academics, and behavior, connecting school content to real world experiences, reinforcing positive patterns, character development, and discovering intrinsic motivation. I aide the students in their college, career & post secondary goals.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

While serving in this role, I provided both individual and group psychotherapy to clients of all age ranges and cultural backgrounds. My services included diagnosing, treatments planning and interventions.

Graham, North Carolina

Parent Aide. •Demonstrate to parents in need of parenting skills and/or assistance in learning to provide a stable and healthy environment for children.•Provide crisis support related to adolescent/child behaviors, housing, sanitation, abuse, neglect and substance use.•I collaborate with Child Protective Services, Juvenile Justice and Truancy Court In an effort to better pair the client with the services and resources needed. Respite Case Manager •Collaborate with community Daycare Providers in both Alamance county and Orange County to temporarily place children of at-risk families into daycare.• Manage and complete all administrative needs for the Respite caseload including chart work, intakes, referrals and coordination of services. Intensive Family Preservation Specialist Floater.•Collaborate with the Department of Child Services to provide placement prevention, reunification, and placement stabilization services to families in need. •Use a variety of skills and teaching methods such as active listening, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral teaching strategies, relapse prevention skills, and domestic violence inquiries.• Provide and coordinate service interventions intended to stabilize and strengthen the individual client/client family system and eliminate the need for out-of-home placement, promote permanency, reduce delinquency or develop self-sufficiency as appropriate to the client and program under which they are receiving services. Interventions may include individual/family counseling, parenting education, life skills training, home maker services, information and referral, advocacy, and other support services delivered in the agencies office, in the client/family's home, in the client's school, or other community settings deemed appropriate and agreed upon by the client/family.

Alamance And Caswell Counties

-Facilitate the Parent & Teen Solutions program group and in-home interventions for at-risk and their families utilizing Strengthening Families evidence based practice, DBT and CBT techniques -Serve as a Parent Aide to parents in need of parenting skills and/or assistance in learning to provide a stable and healthy environment for children-Assess family needs utilizing tools such as an Initial Needs Assessments, Protective Factors Surveys, Adverse Childhood Experience Scores, Parenting Inventories, Youth Surveys and Trauma Referral Tools-Schedule and facilitate Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings, provide crisis support related to adolescent/child behaviors, housing, sanitation, abuse, neglect, substance use and involvement with Child Protective Services, Juvenile Justice and Truancy Court-Manage and complete all administrative needs for the Parent & Teen Solutions program and Parent Aide caseload including chart work, intakes, referrals and coordination of services -Serve in a volunteer capacity for any additional organizational needs such as event planning, organization and execution of fundraising efforts

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Advocate in court on behalf of children’s best interest when child is removed from home. Conduct investigations, interview witnesses, and prepare reports for the District Court. Write recommendation summaries for judge, social workers, and lawyers to be submitted into official District Court reports. Monitor case proceedings and actively pursue information regarding child’s best interest. Work toward safe permanent placement and to ensure receipt of appropriate services.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Black Law Society, Mock Trial, Black Emphasis Committee ( B.E.C)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Innocence Project, Family Law Society, Guardian ad Litem