Rita Da Eira

I am a registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) and an OASW member. I am fluent in both Portuguese and English. I have attained highly developed skills with multiple computer softwares for research and note inputting purposes, such as Microsoft Office. I collaboratively work well with others to achieve success in any work setting to maximize efficiency and workplace productivity.

Child, Youth, and Family Therapist - Behaviour Matters

(2023-10)

• Providing individual counselling sessions, as well as couples therapy, and family therapy by either in person sessions or teletherapy.
• Working collaboratively with a wide age range of clients to support their emotional well-being and mental health, and provide beneficiary tools for emotional regulation.
• Collaboratively work with school boards and other outsource programs to create beneficiary toolkits for a client's success.
• Adapting counselling sessions according to the clients needs, i.e., CBT, behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, art therapy, play therapy.
• Providing interactive and team-building counselling sessions.

Educational Assistant - TCDSB

(2020-10 - 2023-10)

• Supervising the physical and emotional needs of students.
• Monitoring needs and preventing injury or seizures, administering medication.
• Administrating assistance to develop social and study skills, keeping in mind the special needs of that student, i.e., children with autism, non-verbal, behavioral.
• Collaborating with teachers and other members of staff, i.e, speech pathologists, to evaluate the needs of students and provide consistency to their learning.
• Working in classrooms designed to support students on the Autism spectrum, students with exceptional behavioural needs and students needing support and assistance to meet their academic goals.
• Attend and participate in board meetings on self-directed learning modules.

Community Worker - Abrigo Centre

(2020-06 - 2020-09)

• Counselled clients and placed frequent wellness and check-in calls to reinforce self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Frequently used anti-oppressive, anti-racist frameworks, and consecutively provided case support skills that were trauma-informed.
• Collaborated with legal service providers, such as Legal Aid, also governmental facilities, such as OSAP, OW, as well as, Children's Aid.
• Articulated multiple advocacy calls for clients to attain proper governmental and financial assistance.
• Scheduled appointments using Word email database.
• Assembled notes of scheduled appointments with clients into the agency's database.

Master of Social Work - Social Work - Wilfrid Laurier University (2022-09 - 2023-07)

Bachelor's Degree - Social Work - York University (2016-09 - 2020-06)