Student Counselor Resume Sample

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Rebecca Adams
Student Counselor

Supporting students through university and beyond

[email protected]
+1 617 555 1523
linkedin.com/in/rebecca-adams-counselor

Student counselor with eight years supporting university students' wellbeing and success at a college in Boston. Helps students navigate the pressures of university life — counselling them through stress, anxiety and personal difficulties, advising on academic and life decisions, and connecting them to the right support so they can stay, study and thrive. Helped at-risk students remain in their studies and built a peer-support programme that lifted wellbeing across campus. Counsels students individually and in groups, supports mental health and crises, advises on academic and personal issues, runs wellbeing programmes, and refers to specialist services. Caring, steady and skilled. Looking for a student-counseling role with a college that takes its students' wellbeing as seriously as their grades.

Work Experience
Boston College Counseling Service - Boston, USA

Student Counselor January 2017 to Present 9 years & 10 months

Help students navigate the pressures of university life, so they can stay, study and genuinely thrive.
Helped at-risk students remain in their studies and built a peer-support programme that lifted campus wellbeing.
Counsel students one-to-one and in groups, supporting them through stress, anxiety and personal difficulties.
Support students through mental-health crises, knowing when to help directly and when to escalate fast.
Advise on academic and life decisions, helping students think through choices about study, work and direction.
Run wellbeing programmes and refer to specialist services, keeping the support around each student joined up.
Massachusetts University Wellbeing - Boston, USA

Counselor (Early Career) June 2014 to December 2016 2 years & 7 months

Counselled students and ran groups under supervision in a university service, learning the role hands-on each day.
Managed a caseload and supported crises, steadily building counseling and crisis skills over the years.
Learned student counseling, crisis support and referral on the job across more than two years.
Gained the licensure and experience that led into a full student-counselor role of my own.
Education
Boston University

MA in Counseling Psychology (September 2012 to May 2014)

Master's in counseling psychology covering counseling, mental health, young adults and ethics, with a practicum. The programme built the clinical foundation student counseling requires. It led directly into higher-education counseling.
University of Massachusetts

BA in Psychology (September 2008 to May 2012)

Degree in psychology covering development, mental health and counseling, with practical work. The study built the grounding in psychology that student counseling depends on. It set the path into counseling.
Recognition
The adult students turn to
Trusted by students as the counselor they can genuinely talk to and by the college to support its most vulnerable students, credited with keeping students in study and lifting wellbeing across campus.
Kept at-risk students in study
Helped at-risk students remain in their studies. Students often drop out during a crisis they could have come through with support, so keeping them enrolled and coping protects their education and their future.
Built a peer-support programme
Built a peer-support programme that lifted wellbeing across campus. Reaching students through their peers extends support far beyond the counseling room, helping many more students than one counselor can see.
Licensure
Licensed Counselor

Massachusetts Board of Counseling (June 2014 to Present)

Holds counseling licensure following a master's degree and supervised practice, which authorises counseling practice and grounds ethical, skilled support of students' mental health, wellbeing and decisions.
Professional Skills
  • Student Counseling
  • Mental Health Support
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Group Counseling
  • Academic & Life Advising
  • Wellbeing Programmes
  • Referral & Safeguarding
  • Young Adult Development
  • Active Listening
  • Caseload Management
Langauges
English (US)
Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Spanish
Professional Working Proficiency
Personal Info
Location
Boston, USA
Nationality
American
Gender
Female
Notice Period
Academic terms
Date of Birth
1990-09-12
Personal Skills
Empathy
Steadiness
Trust-Building
Patience
Communication
Activities & Interests
Shopping
Cricket
Running
Play Violin
Chess

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