Mental Health Counselor

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (95%).

• Document session notes

• Evaluate clients' physical or mental condition, based on review of client information.
• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
• Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports.
• Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests.
• Develop treatment plans
• Perform crisis interventions to help ensure the safety of the patients and others.
• Monitor clients' use of medications.
• Modify treatment activities or approaches as needed to comply with changes in clients' status.
• Discuss with individual patients their plans for life after leaving therapy.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.
• Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes.
• Perform crisis interventions with clients.
• Assess patients for risk of suicide attempts.
• Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.
• Provide therapy and counseling
• Build therapeutic trust
• Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems.
• Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.
• Collaborate with mental health professionals and other staff members to perform clinical assessments or develop treatment plans.