SONALI DAHIYA
Summary
Compassionate mental health professional with 2+ years of experience in providing counseling and mentoring interns in providing counseling services to prison inmates. Coordinating their work. Teaching them diagnostic criteria of various disorders.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PFA Prison Internship Mentor and Counsellor
Tihar Central Jail
02.2022 - 03.2023
- Served as a role model for mentees by demonstrating strong values and ethical standards.
- Training interns in providing psychological first aid to the inmates at the prison and teaching them basic counseling
- Assisted mentees in developing self-confidence
- Assisted mentees in setting and achieving educational and career goals to encourage independence.
- Providing counseling services to the inmates and helping them to come out of their traumas
Mental Health Counseling Intern
Mental Health Foundation
05.2021 - 09.2021
- Provided comprehensive case management services, created treatment plans
- Guided clients in effective therapeutic exercises integrated from Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
- Displayed sensitivity to the cultural and linguistic needs of clients and families served.
- Completed one-on-one counseling with a broad range of clients suffering from mental health issues
- Worked collaboratively with other mental health professionals to provide consistent care and minimize diversion.
- Psychological first aid provided to the new inmates
Education
Post ma diploma in professional counseling and psychotherapy -
Panjab University
01.2021
M.A. (CLI) Psychology -
Amity University, noida
01.2020
B. A. (Psychology honors) -
Delhi University
01.2018
Skills
- Compassionate and thoughtful professional
- Effective oral communicator
- Engaged listener
- Fast learner
- Ability to maintain and establish effective working relationship
- Knowledge of taking case summary
- Life skills counseling
- Career development counselor
- Counseling psychologist
Certification
- Certificate of value engagement programme 2018
- Certificate of crew team member conclave on mental health awareness - 2015
- Certificate of French language - 20202
- Certificate of Participation in 6th international and 8th Indian psychological science congress- 2019
- Certificate of English studies and research
- Certificate of active participation in diwali mela
- Certificate of successfully completed the global campus MOOC on Children’s Right and technology in the digital age
Accomplishments
- WORKSHOPS, Organized recreational activities for the inmates to help them come out of the stress they are going through example: art based activities, mindfulness activities, street plays, painting competition, bibliotherapy – story telling, Psychodrama activities – role play, Wrote biographies of some inmates with the help of superintendent, Organized de addiction programs with the help of SMO of the jail, Radio show twice in a week, Conducted cognitive behavioral therapy and art therapy sessions for the inmates, Assisted at the RMO office
- Did a value engagement Programme in graduation, organized by the department of psychology of Daulat ram college
- Participated as a crew member, Conclave on Mental Health Awareness- Living with Dignity organized by Mental Health Foundation(India) in association with Department of psychiatry, AIIMS.
- Did an internship in Max hospital, saket and Fortis hospital, Shalimar bagh
- Did a 2 month internship at Samarpan Foundation Trust
- Intern at TIHAR CENTRAL JAIL.
- Succesfully completed the GLOBAL CAMPUS MOOC on children’s right and technology in india
- Content writing intern at edu spectrum
- Freelancer counselor
- Practicing heartfulness meditation
- Cognitive behavioral and rational emotive behavior therapy practitioner.
- Conducted a research on relationship between resilience and life satisfaction in mid life.
- Presented my research work at a conference held in Punjab University
- Did a certificate course in cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Certificate of foreign language (French)
- Participated in the educational activity titled COVID 19 AND MENTAL HEALTH: CARING FOR THE PUBLIC AND OURSELVES Conducted buy American Psychology Association.
- Cognitive behavior and rational emotive therapy practitioner
- Bibliotherapist.
- Conducted a research on mental health and its impact during covid 19
- Conduted empirical research on topic “to assess the personality of an individual and team using”
- 3 day online course on introduction to art therapy at fortis mental hospital
- 3 day online course on introduction to psycho-oncology at fortis mental hospital
- 15 day online clinical psychology internship at fortis mental hospital
- Participated as a delegate at the 47th NACIACP 2021 Virtual conference
- Co-Curricular, School captain till primary, Won the best dancer award in class 11, Trained classical dancer, Yoga Practitioner, 3rd position at inter school tennis tournament, 1st position at inter school basket ball tournament
Timeline
PFA Prison Internship Mentor and Counsellor
Tihar Central Jail
02.2022 - 03.2023
Mental Health Counseling Intern
Mental Health Foundation
05.2021 - 09.2021
Post ma diploma in professional counseling and psychotherapy -
Panjab University
M.A. (CLI) Psychology -
Amity University, noida
B. A. (Psychology honors) -
Delhi University
- Certificate of value engagement programme 2018
- Certificate of crew team member conclave on mental health awareness - 2015
- Certificate of French language - 20202
- Certificate of Participation in 6th international and 8th Indian psychological science congress- 2019
- Certificate of English studies and research
- Certificate of active participation in diwali mela
- Certificate of successfully completed the global campus MOOC on Children’s Right and technology in the digital age
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