About

As a mental health specialist with a passion for empowering individuals towards achieving their full potential, I am skilled in the assessment and management of mental health challenges. My specialty is in life skills training and career coaching. I am committed to the progress and productivity of communities through mental well-being.

Skills

  • Psychosocial skills training
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  • Working with a multi-disciplinary team
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  • Psychological first aid and crisis intervention
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  • Psychological assessment and diagnosis using stru
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  • Proficient use of technology
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  • English and Kiswahili
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  • Setswana
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  • Tshivenda
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Experience

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Work experience
  • Provide assessment and recommendations for appropriate treatments
  • Diagnose and treat various mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
  • Review relevant literature, synthesize evidence-based materials, and translate behavioral health concepts
  • Conduct case management and other administrative tasks as needed
  • Provide referral services to other therapists, clinics, and treatment facilities
  • Participate in off-hours call rotation

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Work experience
  • Assessing and managing employee's mental health challenges in order to increase the employee’s productivity and job satisfaction.
  • Helping employees improve their professional value by identifying training and development needs.
  • Mediating during conflicts among employees and between employees and management.
  • Assessing performance gaps that will help employees grow and add value to the factory and offering training.
  • Designing and delivering training content that aligns with the factory’s mission and goals.

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Work experience
  • Assessment and management of mental health challenges, offering varying therapeutic interventions as Trauma Counseling, Addiction Counseling, Family Therapy, Individual and Group counseling, Psychological first aid, and debriefing.
  • Offering mentorship on life skills to young women and youth at church.
  • Coaching on career development.
  • Hosting mental health talks and appearing in and contributing to talk shows.
  • Research and article writing.

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Work experience
  • Managing patients with trauma-related mental health challenges.
  • Conducting psychological assessment and formulating a diagnosis.
  • Conducting psychometric assessment tests
  • Offering psychological first aid and crisis intervention.
  • Working with a multi-disciplinary medical team to treat patients.
  • Preparing reports, record keeping.
  • Research and article writing.

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Work experience
  • Facilitated life skills workshops for university students and high school learners.
  • Led a team of peer helpers weekly to offer career guidance to high school learners .
  • Participated in the training of peer helpers as a workshop organizer and trainer.
  • Designed training manuals for peer helper training workshops.

Sarah Nyawira Kihuha

Education
  • January, 2007 - December, 2012
  • Fulltime
  • Introduction To Psychology
  • Psychology of Individual Differences
  • Biopsychology
  • Development of Psychological Thoughts
  • Psychological Research
  • Statistical Methods For Psychological Research
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

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