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Aswani Viswanath

Sharjah

Summary

Diligent Medical Social worker with 14+ years of experience in Counseling, Social Work and Administrative skills.Leveraging a strong background in psychology and social work, I assisted clients in resolving personal challenges and managing stressful circumstances.. Firmly centered on encouraging problem-solving, creating customized programs, and acquiring critical abilities. Worked with individuals, couples, and families in need of assistance with matters pertaining to children and teenagers, marital and intimate issues, divorce adjustment, anxiety, depression, career stress, work-life balance, parenting problems, grief, and addiction.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

STUDENT COUNSELOR

Pawar Public School
Hinjewadi
04.2024 - 03.2025

Company Overview: Pawar Public School is managed by the Pawar Public Charitable Trust, an organization that focuses on the needs of the less privileged sections of society. The school is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education.

  • Observed and evaluated students referred by teachers for behavioral or developmental issues.
  • Conducted discussions with parents, and referred cases requiring further assistance to appropriate specialists.
  • Provided parenting counseling for parents of children with ADHD and ASD.
  • Regularly followed up with parents to discuss progress and address concerns.
  • Conducted life skills classes for students in grades 1 through 7.
  • Provided training for teachers on how to manage and strategies to handle children with ADHD and ASD, catering to each child's needs.
  • Provided counseling on topics such as menstruation, and understanding good touch versus bad touch.
  • Offered awareness sessions to primary students on welcoming new admissions, supporting peers who are struggling, and fostering a bullying-free environment.

SENIOR COUNSELOR

Holgerco Private Limited
Kochi
01.2021 - 11.2023

Company Overview: Holgerco PVT LTD offers a holistic solution for learning and developing individuals, accelerating professional and personnel advancement by exploring their potential. Holgerco ensures end-to-end solutions for QHSE, sophisticated robotics, IT services, modest management training, soft skills training, and psycho-social counseling services.

  • Educating students on the courses offered by the institution.
  • Career guidance and support.
  • Soft skills training.
  • Mental health and behavioral counseling.
  • Worked with clients to help them resolve behavioral, social, and personal problems.
  • Communicated closely with other counselors to devise programs and activities based on developmental and academic levels.
  • Offered guidance and advice to help cultivate self-esteem and community involvement.
  • Engaged clients in conversation to determine their feelings and apprehensions.
  • Supervised meetings with family members to help create a support system for clients.

COVID COUNSELOR

National Disaster Management Authority
04.2020 - 12.2021

Company Overview: NDMA initiated a helpline for people who tested positive for COVID-19, whereby psychosocial support is being provided to the latter in the form of remote counseling.

  • Reducing immediate distress.
  • Normalize the worry, and develop healthy ways of addressing worry.
  • Take constructive steps toward solving life problems.
  • Increase supportive communication in relationships.
  • Help individuals cope better with their life challenges.
  • Ventilation of their fears and frustrations.
  • Easing of anxieties and giving hope.

ADMIN MANAGER & SCHOOL COUNSELOR

GUARDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL
Kochi
02.2020 - 08.2020

Company Overview: Guardian Public School, a co-educational school established in 2011, offers classes from nursery upwards, providing a blend of academic, sporting, cultural, and artistic activities in a high-quality environment, which contributes to giving students a world-class education with lifelong benefits.

  • Assisted students with the school admissions process, acquisition of study skills, academic opportunities, and benefits.
  • Developed and conducted orientation programs for new students in the school.
  • Supporting the school in human resource management, including manpower resourcing and benefits administration.
  • Conducted sex education classes for age groups between 10 and 16.
  • Organized anti-bullying (cyberbullying) workshops and ways of coping with bullying.
  • Delivered in-depth seminars on teen depression and suicide attempts.
  • Leading the School Administration Team to improve efficiency in work processes and in supporting teaching and learning.
  • General counseling and training for students, parents, and teachers.

PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELOR, PUNARJANI COUNSELING PROJECT

Sevabharathi
Ernakulam
01.2019 - 12.2019

Company Overview: Punarjani Counselling was a statewide project under Sevabharathi that organizes welfare programs for underprivileged children, the community, and flood victims in Chovara, Aluva, Kerala.

  • Creating a nurturing, safe and caring environment for abled and disabled children.
  • Ensuring adequate facilities for students for eating, toileting, dressing, and sleeping.
  • Teaching important behavioral, educational, and social skills to children for their personal development.
  • Supervising and recording unusual behavior of students, and taking appropriate action.
  • Organizing and participating in recreational activities with children.
  • Planning, organizing, and implementing sexual health education programs for school-aged youth, adults, parents, and professionals.
  • Provided information for groups on many aspects of sexuality, such as sexual orientations, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control options, self-esteem, abortion, sexual violence, healthy and unhealthy relationships, masturbation, puberty, menopause, pregnancy, values, reproduction, decision-making, communication, safe sex, parent-child communication, sexual harassment, body image, sexual pleasure, and many other topics.
  • Organizing psychosocial intervention camps for flood victims.
  • Awareness classes for parents and teachers regarding developmental, behavioral, and sexual issues of children and teenagers.

CENTRE MANAGER & COUNSELLOR

KIDZEE INTERNATIONAL PRESCHOOL, Z GROUP
Kochi
06.2016 - 11.2018

Company Overview: With over 1,900 preschools in more than 750 cities across the country, Kidzee is the largest preschool chain in India.

  • Plan, direct, and monitor the instructional methods and content of educational, vocational, or student activity programs.
  • Monitor students' progress and provide students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems.
  • Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities and policies, identifying students' behavioral or learning problems, and parental counseling.
  • Organizing field trips, summer camps, medical camps, festive celebrations, etc.
  • Organized Annual Day Celebrations.

SENIOR EXECUTIVE

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CENTRE, ASTER MEDCITY
Kochi
04.2011 - 05.2016
  • Company Overview: Aster Medcity is a 650-bed quaternary care healthcare center in the city of Kochi and one of the largest in South India.
  • Counseling for patients/Parents struggling with depression, anxiety, anger management, and post-traumatic stress issues.
  • Crisis intervention & grief Counseling.
  • Helping in identifying practical solutions that use available community resources, such as support groups, wellness programs, and care for caregivers, as well as providing education and assistance in applying for government & Non-government financial entitlements and programs.
  • Member of AUTISM CLUB, formed support groups in Aster Medcity, conducted camps & awareness programs.
  • Member of Aster Sick Kids Foundation (ASK) conducted Camps, Raised Funds for charities & coordinated free surgeries.
  • Aster Medcity is a 650-bed quaternary care healthcare center in the city of Kochi and one of the largest in South India.

Education

MSW - Medical & Psychiatry

YMBC College
Kerala
04-2011

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

CMS College Kottayam
Kerala
04-2009

Skills

  • Counseling
  • Soft skills training
  • Problem Solving
  • Career guidance
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Case management
  • Life skills training

References

  • Niseetha Parveen K S, Operational Manager, Holgerco Private Limited, 8094809669
  • Dr. Lissy Jose, Head of the Social Work Department, 9447137589

Hobbies and Interests

  • Swimming
  • Amigurumi
  • Kalimba
  • Travelling
  • Art & Crafts

Internships

  • Hospital as a Psychiatric social worker
  • Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences as a Medical social worker
  • Liss India, Non-Governmental Organization Kothamangalam as Project Coordinator.

Affiliations

  • Psycho-social interventions during COVID-19 by NIMHANS and WHO
  • Permanent Social Work Solutions – 1-week workshop on UK social work practices
  • International workshop on Health Social Work: Theories, Interventions, and Models as part of the Australia India Council Project (Government of Australia)
  • Inception Workshop on Floods Recovery Support by Swiss Solidarity and Terre des Hommes
  • Workshop on HIV/AIDS conducted as part of the Red Ribbon Express Campaign by the Kerala State

Accomplishments

FLOOD RELIEF ACTIVITIES WITH ASTER VOLUNTEERS TEAM (2018)

  • Visited rehabilitation camps from the first day and provided immediate necessities like cooking gas, vegetables, and blankets
  • Coordinated the evacuation of nearly 350 patients, including ICU patients, without a single incident of patient crashes

• Organized more than 75 Flood relief camps and more than 12 post flood medical assistance camps, distributed nearly 1200 relief kits and the teamwork has touched almost 20100 lives. Associated with government and non-governmental organizations to arrange and allocate enough resources for the camp inmates

• Covered all rehabilitation camps in Ernakulam Districts and half of Alappuzha Districts with direct coordination with government authorities

• Conducted awareness classes regarding preventive safety measures before they go back to their homes • As part of Mega Camps in Ernakulam District, I conducted classes and personal counseling sessions for the psycho-social well-being of the survivors, HOPE CHILD CANCER CARE, 01/2018 – 2020, Kochi/Kozhikode

HOPE CHILD CANCER CARE 01/2018 – 2020 Kochi/Kozhikode

Hope Child Cancer Care Foundation is a charitable organization that helps families fight childhood cancer by providing psycho-social and financial support through HOPE Homes, which provide accommodation facilities for the child and family during the treatment period.

Tasks

• Providing psychosocial support for patients and caregivers

• Organizing fundraising events and campaigns

Certification

  • National Workshop on Basic Social Work Skills.
  • National Seminar on “An Outlook of Medical Social Work”
  • Awareness campaign based on Life Style Diseases & Cancer, Organized by Red Cross society.
  • National Seminar on The Concept of PanchayatiRaj and Human Rights- Organized by National Human Rights Commission
  • An interactive Seminar on “50% Reservation for Women- a quality Forecast organized by The Department of Social Work and The Kerala State Women's Development Corporation”

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAMMES ORGANISED

• ESPNIC Paediatrics Critical Care Master Class 2018 (International Conference)  

• Aster KIND Annual CME 2018 Early Child Development “Nurturing Our  Tomorrow” National Neonatal Ventilation Workshop – 2018  

• KOCHI CRITICARE 2017, 23rd National Conference of the Indian Society of  Critical Care Medicine.  

• PET & PEBP by British Paediatric Neurology Association – 2017  

• Paediatric EEG basics for Paediatricians by Indian Association of Paediatrics- 2017  Neonatal Resuscitation Course by National Neonatology Forum of India - 2017  

• IGNITING MINDS -Autism Workshop For Parents- 2017  

• National Autism Conference 2017 - Management of Autism and Current Trends in Intervention 

• KIDS NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS by Indian Association of Paediatrics 2016 

• Aster Kids Monsoon CME - 2016 and 2017

• KIDS NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS by Indian Association of  Paediatrics 2016  

• Aster Kids Monsoon CME - 2016 & 2017

Languages

Malayalam
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES

  • State Level Orientation Program for Disaster Preparedness and Management by the Kerala Association of Professional Social Workers (KAPS)
  • Childhood Mental Disorders, Solution-Focused Family Therapy
  • Advanced Couple Counselling
  • Sex Therapy
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Systemic Family Therapy

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 09/20/87

Timeline

STUDENT COUNSELOR

Pawar Public School
04.2024 - 03.2025

SENIOR COUNSELOR

Holgerco Private Limited
01.2021 - 11.2023

COVID COUNSELOR

National Disaster Management Authority
04.2020 - 12.2021

ADMIN MANAGER & SCHOOL COUNSELOR

GUARDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL
02.2020 - 08.2020

PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELOR, PUNARJANI COUNSELING PROJECT

Sevabharathi
01.2019 - 12.2019

CENTRE MANAGER & COUNSELLOR

KIDZEE INTERNATIONAL PRESCHOOL, Z GROUP
06.2016 - 11.2018

SENIOR EXECUTIVE

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT CENTRE, ASTER MEDCITY
04.2011 - 05.2016

MSW - Medical & Psychiatry

YMBC College

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

CMS College Kottayam
Aswani Viswanath