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Year of professional experience
Cameron Page
Specialist Wellness Counsellor
Johannesburg
Summary
As a Specialist Wellness Counsellor with a self-employed background, I excel in applying critical thinking and interpersonal skills to build meaningful relationships with clients and foster health and wellness. My expertise in data analysis and ability to nurture client relationships have significantly enhanced counselling outcomes. Demonstrating empathy, I've effectively managed diverse client needs and achieving notable client satisfaction.
Overview
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Certifications
Work History
Specialist Wellness Counsellor
Self Employed Services
Johannesburg, South Africa
09.2023 - Current
- Apply interpersonal skills by entering into a helping relationship.
- Apply counselling tools and techniques to assist, support, guide, debrief and encourage a client in need.
- Apply knowledge of health and wellness in a counselling context in order to screen for a health profile.
- Manage a counselling consultation with reference to record keeping, confidentiality, ethical codes, legal requirements and professional conduct within own scope of practice.
- Apply communication and numeracy skills in order to be able to analyse, interpret and evaluate information in a counselling context.
- Identify and solve problems to make responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking in the counselling process.
- Work effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organization or community.
- Organize and manage him/herself and his/her activities responsibly and ethically with reference to scope of practice and ethical code of the profession.
- Organize and manage a practice by keeping routine records of counselling interventions according to the work context.
- Collect, organize and critically evaluate information in screening a client to determine needs and recommend appropriate interventions.
- Communicate effectively with clients and colleagues.
- Make use of science and technology in maintaining records in a database.
- Demonstrate cultural, religious, gender, social standing and language sensitivity across a range of counselling contexts in applying knowledge of interpersonal relationships to enhance the effectiveness of the counselling process.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognizing that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the integration between human behaviour and health and wellness in terms of short term interventions and potential long term effects.
- Reflect on and explore a variety of strategies to learn more effectively in reflecting on own practice.
- Participate as a responsible citizen in the life of local, national and global communities in counselling within a structured environment.
Volunteer
National Center for Child Protection
Pretoria, South Africa
05.2023 - 09.2023
- Assisted with counseling individuals who reach out through their hotline
- Assisted with counseling at varias schools all over Johannesburg
- Guided individuals to tools and resources necessary for healing
- Wrote an article for their magazine which was published in September of 2023
Volunteer
Stepping Stone Hospice and Care
Johannesburg, South Africa
05.2023 - 09.2023
- Participated in volunteer orientations and training sessions to learn about the organization
- Assisted with special events and programs.
- Maintained clean, neat, and operational facilities to serve program needs.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Sociology
University of The Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts Honours - Psychology, South Africa
University of The Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa 04.2001 -
Short Course - Counselling
Humanitas
Pretoria, South Africa 04.2001 -
Skills
Problem solving and reasoning skills: conceptual thinking; critical thinking; synthesis; adaptability; creativity; self-efficacy
Life and learning skills: responsiveness; openness; social awareness
Communication skills: literacy (reading and writing); group and team work; customer relations
Interpersonal skills: awareness of diversity; multi-person interaction
Information access skills: IT proficiency; searching and data mining
Resource management skills: planning; budgeting; networking; funding
Applied research skills: data collection; data analysis; evaluation
Accomplishments
- Post-Graduate Merist Award 2022
- Golden Key Society Member 2023
- Magazine Article for National Centre for Child Protection 2023
Affiliations
- ASCHP Registered Specialist Wellness Counsellor
Software
Certification
ASCHP Specialist Wellness Counsellor
Timeline
Specialist Wellness Counsellor
Self Employed Services
09.2023 - Current
ASCHP Specialist Wellness Counsellor
09-2023
Volunteer
National Center for Child Protection
05.2023 - 09.2023
Volunteer
Stepping Stone Hospice and Care
05.2023 - 09.2023
Faculty Tutor
05-2022
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Sociology
University of The Witwatersrand
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts Honours - Psychology, South Africa
University of The Witwatersrand
04.2001 -
Short Course - Counselling
Humanitas
04.2001 -