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Amber Kozma

Mississauga,Ontario

Summary

Empathetic, compassionate, and qualified. Employing superior skills and competencies, encompassing a wide range of modalities, practicing from a person-centered approach.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Registered Psychotherapist

Relationship Therapy Centre
09.2022 - Current

-Counselling

-Risk assessment and Crisis intervention

-Working from a collaborative, nonjudgmental, empathetic lens, encouraging clients to be the catalysts of their own realities

-Approaching my clients from a place of not knowing, striving to understand their ideologies, beliefs, values and perspectives while honoring everyone’s ideals around health and healing

-Experience in supporting a diverse clientele encountering a variety of ailments, encompassing, but not limited to, anxiety, depression, anger, life transitions, infidelity, and relational concerns.

-Fostering and maintaining a strong rapport with clients.

-Facilitating conflict resolution, relationship rebuilding, and family repairing.

-Conducting client assessment, goal setting, treatment planning, intervention, and termination.

-High client retention rate.

-Individuals/Families/Couples/Youth

-Utilizing Solution Focused, Narrative, Emotion Focused, Gottman, CBT, DBT, and Internal Family System modalities, in a person centered, collaborative approach.

-Risk Assessment

-Scheduling/Billing

-Client facilitation

Business Owner

My Petropolis Inc.
05.2010 - Current

-Built from the ground up

-Branding and Marketing

-Hiring, Training, and scheduling of staff

-Taking part in the co-op program with local high schools.

-Mentoring, providing support, and teaching youth.

-Payroll

-Budgeting, profit, and loss analysis for weekly, monthly and quarterly reports

-Acquiring new clients, maintaining good client relationships

Crisis Responder

 Crisis Text Line (Kids Help Phone Inc.)
01.2020 - 09.2022

-Risk assessment and Crisis intervention

-Building strong rapport

-Offering resources

-Providing referral


Education

Master of Arts - Counselling Psychology

Yorkville University
04.2023

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

York University
Toronto, ON
04.2009

Skills

  • Building rapport
  • Anxiety Management
  • Case Documentation
  • Treatment Planning
  • Substance Abuse Counseling
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Psychoeducation Delivery
  • Suicide Risk Assessment
  • Depression Treatment
  • Discharge Planning
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Emotional awareness

Certification

Asist Training Living works Asist Program

Timeline

Registered Psychotherapist

Relationship Therapy Centre
09.2022 - Current

Crisis Responder

 Crisis Text Line (Kids Help Phone Inc.)
01.2020 - 09.2022

Business Owner

My Petropolis Inc.
05.2010 - Current

Master of Arts - Counselling Psychology

Yorkville University

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

York University
Amber Kozma