Harleen Arora

• Provide 1-1 community mental health counseling in clinical setting to adults with moderate to severe mental health disorders, substance use counseling to youth 14+ and adults, and co-occurring disorders via telephone, Zoom, or in-person.
• Primary clinician utilizing variety of specialized treatment modalities/ therapies to individuals, groups, and/or families, including assessment, treatment, and specialized service coordination to optimize client’s recovery and ability to function.
• Treatment modalities primarily include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and eclectic approaches to meet clients where they are at, provide emotional support, empowerment, and tools to move forward.
• Document assessments (eg. DSM-5 clinical impressions, cultural, and bio psychosocial), treatment formulations, care plans, and progress notes in atimely manner.

• Involved in spreading and educating South Asian communities about mental health through informative videos on social media handles like Instagram, Facebook and twitter in Hindi, English and Punjabi. The aim is to make people aware about mental health issues, symptoms and prevention.

• Providing individual and group counseling to people in distress and with varied psychological problems, thereby helping them cope with various life stressors in order to lead a healthy and positive lives. • Preparing reports documenting mental health (case histories) assessments after meeting with and observing clients.
• Coming up with treatment plans for clients in order to reach the mutually targeted goals.
• Contacting clients about appointments and treatment options.
• Providing short-term and long-term counselling to the clients suffering from minor and major mental health issues and problems such as depression, anxiety, phobias, stress, addiction, suicidal tendencies, trauma, violence, abuse etc.
• Using various psychological therapies like CBT, REBT, Psychotherapy, humanistic therapy to counter various psychological and emotional problems.
• Gathering feedback about client’s progress in therapy.
• Participating in the monthly meetings with the other team members.

• Interviewed, observed, and surveyed more than 800 patients in order to gain necessary information for psychological diagnosis and planned treatment accordingly.
• Providing counseling to clients in distress.
• Referred patients to specific doctors (psychiatrists/general medicine)
• Administered various standardized psychological tests like EPI, MMPI, WAIS, EPQ, Beck’s anxiety scale, Raven’s Progressive matrices, Rorschach ink blot test, Beck’s depression scale, STAT etc. on clients to get basic understanding between client's thoughts and feelings and subsequent behaviors causing problems.
• Conducted follow up sessions with existing clients and took relevant feedback about their recovery and recovery rate has been 80%.

• Taught Psychology to high school and undergraduate students, basically dealt in teaching general psychology, history and schools of psychology, physiological psychology, counseling psychology abnormal psychology, drug abuse and other courses as assigned.
• Also dealt with academic and psychological counseling of students.