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MELIKA AZIZHAGHIGHI

Psychologist
Cholargos

Summary

Experienced Psychologist skilled in client behavior and brain function analysis, applying deep knowledge to diagnose and treat disorders. Proficient in multicultural psychology, recognizing its impact on screenings and responses. Accomplished researcher with a diverse project portfolio and a keen passion for advancing knowledge in the field.



Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
13
13
Certifications

Work History

Psychologist

Meta Wellness Project/Facebook &Whats App (Teleperformance)
Athens
05.2023 - Current
  • Disseminated reports and briefings for program management and to drive patient care improvements.
  • Designing treatment plans on vicarious trauma for individuals
  • Conducted patient observations by monitoring behavior and documented physical health, family history and medications in mental health assessment reports.
  • Designing training for content moderators on various topics of: resilience, self-care, emotional regulation, diversity and culture,etc.
  • Conducting wellness sessions
  • Interacted with clients to assist in gaining insight, defining goals and planning action to achieve effective personal development and adjustment.
  • Counseled individuals and groups regarding problems such as stress, substance abuse or family situations to modify behavior to improve personal adjustment.
  • Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to coordinate care plans and implement continuity of care.

Psychologist

OnLifEm
Athens
03.2022 - Current

Considering the current innovations required by the new era, we offer our clients the best technological service infrastructure. We always aim for more with our expert staff and competent team. In line with our values, we work meticulously on providing online therapy and protecting your information and data.



Group Facilitator

Colloquy Communities
Athens
12.2021 - Current

for leadership and well-being.

Colloquy is a forward-thinking personal and professional development network offering high-quality educational content and open discussions in communities.


Colloquy Focus Communities provide short-term weekly meetings (on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Sundays) based on a variety of specialized topics that fit the interests of participants. Professionally-qualified facilitators will lead participants through these high-quality educational and psychological topics and open discussions in communities.

Psychologist

Private Practice
Athens
06.2020 - Current
  • Offering online and face to face psychotherapy sessions
  • Disseminated reports and briefings for program management and to drive patient care improvements.
  • Conducted patient observations by monitoring behavior and documented physical health, family history and medications in mental health assessment reports.
  • Studied and applied practices from professional reports and literature along with therapies focused on patient needs.

Real Estate Consultant

Five Star Greece
Athens
03.2021 - 03.2023
  • Generated leads for sales and rental properties through cold calls and referrals.
  • Communicated with clients to understand property needs and preferences.
  • Researched commercial and residential real estate deals.
  • Coordinated appointments to show marketed properties.
  • Informed home buyer of sales, construction and warranty processes.
  • Human Resources
  • Maintained connections with clients to encourage repeat business and referrals.
  • Consultation
  • Administration
  • Content Management System (CMS)
  • Sales

Psychotherapist

Counseling Center of American College of Greece
Athens
09.2019 - 09.2022
  • Training (Completed more than 3000 hours of supervised experience)
  • Offering individual psychotherapy sessions to students (short-term approach)
  • Organizing and formatting files
  • Screening (CCAPS,BAI,BDI,etc)
  • Maintained and updated patient records, changes in service plans and treatment reports.
  • Partnered with multi-disciplinary treatment team as subject matter expert on psychosocial treatment of patients.
  • Worked with interdisciplinary treatment team to develop treatment plans.
  • Documented client progress in confidential files.

Assistant Project Manager

Code On The Road
Athens
02.2022 - 07.2022

Code on the Road (COR) seeks to implement and promote a holistic approach to solving today’s labour market and civil society deficits in both Europe and the MENA region through targeted programs aimed at increasing labour market integration, entrepreneurship, and resilience to extremist ideologies that often exploit the downtrodden, insecure and unemployed.

  • Monitored and tracked project metrics and collected data to share with project members.
  • Generated weekly and monthly status reports for helpful progress tracking.
  • Developed and maintained project documentation for reliable records.
  • Documented project progress to fulfill project requirements and establish traceability.

Psychologist

Sparkpluss
Athens
11.2021 - 12.2021

Assess, diagnose, and treat mental and emotional disorders of individuals through observation, interview, and psychological tests. Help individuals understand their problems through patient history, presenting symptoms, interviews, and available theory.
Provide individual or group counseling services to assist individuals in achieving more effective personal, social, educational, and vocational development and adjustment. In addition, may design behavior modification programs and consult with medical personnel regarding the best treatment for clients.

Research Collaborator

Lirea Project
06.2021 - 11.2021
  • Offering online Psychoeducational training
  • Interpreter
  • Supervising the sessions
  • LIREA is a project aimed at fostering the fully integration of 3rd Country Nationals in Member States’ society enhancing the capacity of hosting societies in implementing innovating and transnational solutions for improving integration of 3rd countries national victim of trafficking.
    The project aims to pass from a national-based social inclusion process (top-down approach) to a wider one (bottom-up approach), composed by both social and economic full integration, carried out by Member States and by
    European Union as a whole. It is precisely because this is a “two way process”, that it’s preferable speaking about socio-economic integration, for enhancing the importance of double level of project intervention, on people and on systems. This fully integration model involves a process of systemic reform embodying changes and modifications in content, methods, approaches, structures and strategies – long term impact lied here – to overcome barriers with a vision serving to provide all victims of trafficking the access to an equitable and participatory society.

Collaborator

Profilpass
06.2021 - 11.2021
  • Gathering data for the research purposes
  • Formatting the data and organizing
  • Met mentee formally, informally, in-person and virtually to offer support.
  • Shared resources, opportunities, and activities to support mentee's learning and development.
  • The ProfilPASS is a German tool that assists people in finding out what their strengths and competencies are. With the help of an advisor, they discover their hidden competencies and set their goals. Therefore the ProfilPASS tool prevents people from dropping out of training and education. In this EU-funded project, we will adapt the tool to the participating partner’s needs and test it with young people and adults.


Interviewer/Data Collector

Saint Mary's University Of Halifax, Canada
08.2020 - 11.2021
  • Focusing on “Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean”
  • Interviewing participants
  • Transcribing the interviews
  • Translating the interviews
  • Conducted interviews with participants to collect information to understand background and experience of each candidate.
  • This research project focuses on “Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration: Asylum Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean”.
  • The objectives of this research projects were to better understand the interplay of historical, structural, institutional and policy contexts in precarity and SGBV, and to contribute, through collaborative, multi-sectoral and international research and knowledge mobilization, to the work and effectiveness of law and policy makers and service providers in addressing policy and service gaps.

Psychologist, translator

Melissa Network of Migrant Women
Athens
09.2019 - 11.2021
  • Providing group counseling and individual counseling
  • Conducted patient observations by monitoring behavior and documented physical health, family history and medications in mental health assessment reports.
  • Offering one-to-one individual psychotherapy session to refugee women
  • Disseminated reports and briefings for program management and to drive patient care improvements.
  • Interpreter of Farsi Language
  • Cultural Mediator Format and tailor psychoeducational materials for refugee adults and children
  • Interpreter (Farsi to English and English to Farsi)

Administrator

Allouche Benias Gallery
Athens
05.2019 - 11.2019
  • Creating Catalogue (PDFs) and Forms
  • Organizing Events and Exhibitions
  • Creating Excel Report/Inventory
  • Sales and communication
  • Entered and maintained departmental records in company database.

Volunteer, Translator

Red Cross Hospital of Athens
Athens
04.2019 - 07.2019
  • Acted as a translator for Afghan refugees, conversing in Persian and English
  • Providing help in the medical services offered by hospital to refuges
  • Translating documents and forms
  • Used strong interpersonal communication skills to convey information to others.
  • Listened to recordings and translated confidential information.

Translator

City Plaza Hotel Athens
Athens
10.2016 - 12.2016
  • Translator for Afghan refugees, conversing in Persian and English
  • Assisting refugees in completing forms
  • Taught English to children and developed playtime activities for them

Private Contractor, English Tutor

Freelancer
Tehran
09.2010 - 06.2013
  • Created lessons plans for student ages 7-13
  • Reviewed and provided feedback on student’s homework
  • Motivated students to succeed; reported students’ progress to parents
  • Tutored students to develop deeper comprehension of English course materials and better understanding of assignments to improve academic success.

Volunteer

ISCC Charity
Tehran
08.2011 - 08.2012
  • Society to Support Children Suffering from Cancer)
  • Implemented activities that allow children suffering from cancer, to learn about the world and explore interests; painting, practice their writing in Persian
  • Developed schedules and routines to ensure that children have enough physical activity and rest
  • Assisted in the organization of the Organization’s events

Education

Associate of Science - Group, Family And Couple Therapy

Athenian Institute of Anthropos-AKMA
Athens, Greece
05.2023 - Current

Master of Science - Counseling Psychology And Psychotherapy

The American College of Greece
Athens, Greece
04.2018 - 08.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

The American College of Greece-Deree
Athens,Greece
09.2013 - 06.2018

BA - Psychology

Open University Validated

High School Diploma - undefined

Aeen é Roshan e Nour
09.2004 - 05.2011

Skills

Professional Quick learner and thinker, committed in completing projects on time, experiencein assisting others, Good at Following written instruction, Skilled in gatherinag information and preparing repocrts, Skillful in persuading

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Software

CCAPS

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SPSS

Certification

Photovoice and photo elicitation: narrative tools for therapeutic practice By Abigail Rolbeicki American Psychological Association

Interests

Music

Cinema

Photography

Sports

Language

Persian (Mother Tongue)

English (Fluent/Bilingual)

Greek (Intermediate/B2)

German (Basic/A2)

Spanish (Basic/A1)

French(Basic/A1)

Timeline

Psychologist

Meta Wellness Project/Facebook &Whats App (Teleperformance)
05.2023 - Current

Associate of Science - Group, Family And Couple Therapy

Athenian Institute of Anthropos-AKMA
05.2023 - Current

"What's New in Group Psychotherapy and What's the Same: Relationships and Life," By Molyn Leszcz and Irvin Yalom Suicidal Risk and Telepsychology: From Supportive Resources to Clinical Treatment by David A. Jobes, Ph.D.d, ABPP

05-2023

Psychologist

OnLifEm
03.2022 - Current

Assistant Project Manager

Code On The Road
02.2022 - 07.2022

Group Facilitator

Colloquy Communities
12.2021 - Current

Psychologist

Sparkpluss
11.2021 - 12.2021

06/2020 Persistent Depressive Disorder by J

09-2021

Research Collaborator

Lirea Project
06.2021 - 11.2021

Collaborator

Profilpass
06.2021 - 11.2021

Real Estate Consultant

Five Star Greece
03.2021 - 03.2023

Photovoice and photo elicitation: narrative tools for therapeutic practice By Abigail Rolbeicki American Psychological Association

09-2020

International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Advancing treatment of borderline personality disorder International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy(ISTFP)

09-2020

Photovoice and photo elicitation: narrative tools for therapeutic practice By Abigail Rolbeicki American Psychological Association 09/2020 International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Advancing treatment of borderline personality disorder International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy(ISTFP)

09-2020

Interviewer/Data Collector

Saint Mary's University Of Halifax, Canada
08.2020 - 11.2021

Persistent Depressive Disorder by J. Kim Penberthy , Ph.D., ABPP

07-2020

Psychologist

Private Practice
06.2020 - Current

Resilience After Trauma: Evidence-Based Assessment & Intervention by Sherry Hamby, Ph.D.

05-2020

Psychological Tele-Assessment During Covid-19: Ethical and Practical Consideration with Dr. Jordan Wright, Ph.D.

04-2020

Telepsychology Best Practices 101 Series, APA

04-2020

NYC-CBT Webinar: Covid-19 and Uncertainty: Can We Still Do ERP for OCD? By Jonathan B. Grayson, Ph.D.

04-2020

A New Understanding of Dreams in Daseinanalysis by Dr. Hans–Dieter Foerster

02-2020

Interpersonal Trauma and Sex Education: The Impact of Child Sexual Abuse and Interpersonal Violence-Training

02-2020

Psychotherapist

Counseling Center of American College of Greece
09.2019 - 09.2022

Psychologist, translator

Melissa Network of Migrant Women
09.2019 - 11.2021

Administrator

Allouche Benias Gallery
05.2019 - 11.2019

Volunteer, Translator

Red Cross Hospital of Athens
04.2019 - 07.2019

Psychoanalysis and Trauma: Transference and Countertransference by Dr. Nel Dreijer

06-2018

Master of Science - Counseling Psychology And Psychotherapy

The American College of Greece
04.2018 - 08.2020

Translator

City Plaza Hotel Athens
10.2016 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

The American College of Greece-Deree
09.2013 - 06.2018

Volunteer

ISCC Charity
08.2011 - 08.2012

Private Contractor, English Tutor

Freelancer
09.2010 - 06.2013

High School Diploma - undefined

Aeen é Roshan e Nour
09.2004 - 05.2011

BA - Psychology

Open University Validated
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