Zanele (Mimi) Jordan
Mental Health Practitioner
Bryanston
Summary
Experienced, hardworking, conscientious and caring Mental Health Practitioner with a successful career in both Business Ownership and Counselling. Extensive knowledge and professional experience counselling individuals and groups who have experienced trauma or various hardship. Having a proven ability to empathise with individuals whilst retaining an objective and realistic approach to their treatment and therapy. Comfortable working and communicating with people from most backgrounds and having experience of trauma, abuse, depression, marital difficulties and child-parent conflicts. Adept in assessing the situations of patients, keeping record of progress, and suggesting powerful solutions. Committed to psychoeducation, aiding the client gain and build awareness about their cognitive process and behaviour, reinforcing positive feelings and behaviours and developing mental, emotional, and behavioural goals in collaboration with the client.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
5
5
Languages
Work History
Student Registered Counsellor
Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre
- Conducted assessments and interviews for new clients
- Provided Solution-Focused Counselling services to various clients with a variety of concerns and issues
- Provided in-depth mental health assessments
- Created and implemented effective treatment plans and established counselling goals alongside the client
- Provided ongoing client psychoeducation and recommended various materials to assist the client in their counselling goals
- Administered, scored, interpreted and reported on various psychometrics assessments for children and adolescents
- Worked with other staff members from a variety of disciplines in the clinic to ensure optimal client care
- Effectively managed a high volume of caseloads on an ongoing basis
- Advocated for clients to be assisted with additional supplementary services beyond the psychologist’s office, such as mediation, social services and more.
Student Registered Counsellor
Headway
- Conducted assessments and interviews for new clients
- Developed treatment plans utilising various theories and practices
- Assisted clients with various traumatic brain injuries, and educated them on at-home rehabilitation techniques and resources
- Worked with other staff members to ensure optimal patient care and an environment conducive to productivity and healing
- Designed and conducted psychoeducational workshops for group sessions with clients with various severity of traumatic brain injury
- Provided individual and group counselling for clients’ spouses and families
- Provided psychoeducational talks and workshops for clients’ spouses and families.
Mental Health Practitioner
Mimi Jordan Counselling – Private Practice
12.2020 - Current
- Owns and manages The Jordan Wellness Hub, creating mental health and physical health solutions for clients from a holistic approach to overall wellness
- Uses a variety of skills and counselling modalities to counsel individuals, couple’s, families and groups
- Works with a diverse caseload including children, adolescents and adults, facing issues around trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, suicide-ideation, abuse, and co-parenting
- And adverse work situations, to heal, alleviate and improve psychosocial and vocational adjustment
- Individual Counselling
- Couple’s and Group Counselling
- HIV Testing and Counselling
- Co-parenting mediation and developing parenting plans
- Designs and implements workshops and talks on a variety of topics.
Education
Bachelor of Psychology (Hon) -
The South African College of Applied Psychology
Skills
Patience and having a calm manner
Experience of working comfortably with various cultural dynamics
Having a mature attitude and personality
Having a person-centred and solution-focused approach towards counselling
Ability to quickly analyse complex problems & negotiate with third parties
Aware of policies and procedures regarding equal opportunities, child protection, risk assessment, and confidentiality
R E F E R E N C E S
Available on request.
Counselling Skills
- Provide comprehensive assessments of clients.
- Plan appropriate counselling interventions for each client case.
- Outstanding knowledge of principles of psychology and mental health and expertise in implementing many types of behavioural and counselling therapies.
- Competencies in administering and interpreting psychological tests and developing intervention programs to adjust behaviour.
- Ability to provide individual counselling services or facilitate group therapy sessions in a positive and effective manner.
- HIV testing and counselling.
- Strong sense of integrity when dealing with clients and a commitment to keeping information confidential when necessary.
- Excellent oral communicator and compassionate listener when discussing details of individual cases with clients and family members.
- Make relevant recommendations for referral to other healthcare professionals when required.
Certification
Basic Skills in Perinatal Mental Health - The Centre of Perinatal Excellence, Australia
Timeline
Basic Skills in Perinatal Mental Health - The Centre of Perinatal Excellence, Australia
02-2024
Licensed Registered Counsellor - The Health professions Council of South Africa
02-2024
Mental Health Practitioner
Mimi Jordan Counselling – Private Practice
12.2020 - Current
Clinical Forensic Medical Aspects of GBV - Foundation for Professional Development South Africa
09-2016
Student Registered Counsellor
Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre
Student Registered Counsellor
Headway
Bachelor of Psychology (Hon) -
The South African College of Applied Psychology