Mental Health Associate resume examples for 2025
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How to write a mental health associate resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in mental health associate-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the mental health associate position.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical mental health associate skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a mental health associate resume:
- Patients
- Customer Service
- Vital Signs
- CPR
- Safety Checks
- Social Work
- Crisis Intervention
- Substance Abuse
- Immunization
- CPI
- Therapeutic Interventions
- Anger Management
- Rehabilitation
- Therapeutic Environment
- Direct Patient Care
- Patient Safety
- Mental Illness
- Chemical Dependency
- Public Health
- Patient Behavior
- Therapeutic Milieu
- Direct Supervision
- Treatment Programs
- Compassion
- Behavioral Issues
- Phone Calls
- Crisis Management
- MHA
- Mental Health Issues
- Home Health
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the mental health associate.
How to write mental health associate experience bullet points
Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.
Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.
Here are examples from great mental health associate resumes:
Work History Example #1
Mental Health Technician Lead
North Memorial Health
- Initiated program to promote employee collaboration which resulted in increased responsibility and in invitation to join the shared governance committee.
- Scheduled internal meetings and travel arrangements for project managers.
- Trained in self-defense and CPR.
- Certified EKG Technician and Certified Monitor Technician.
- Focused on areas that affected healthcare quality improvement - recommended improvement opportunities.
Work History Example #2
Outreach Worker
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska
- Presented workshop at professional seminar on treatment of the oncology patient in a group setting.
- Provided information about HIV/AIDS to clients and helped them obtain benefits and housing.
- Supervised a Masters of Social Work (MSW) Student Intern.
- Screened patients for Medicaid and Social Security disability qualifications in a hospital setting.
- Contracted to do case management as an LMSW for a 646 bed acute-care hospital.
Work History Example #3
Community Health Internship
Pacific Clinics
- Trained in EBP interventions, such as; seeking safety, motivational interviewing, TF-CBT, and Play therapy.
- Charted client services utilizing DMH standards of documentation and Medicaid/Medi-Cal billing requirements.
- Trained in completing timely DMH documentation.
- Prepared clinical documentation required by the Department of Mental Health (DMH).
- Completed Service and Coordination Plans, progress notes, and other DMH required documentation.
Work History Example #4
Mental Health Associate
NHS Human Services
- Documented notes within electronic record for each client encounter and provided ongoing communication with inter-disciplinary team.
- Assisted in family counseling sessions with youths, parents and/or other family members to facilitate improved communications and strengthen family relationships.
- Educated staff in appropriate responses in working with multicultural, diverse, traumatized and youth who have experienced loss.
- Trained in Crisis Prevention and Intervention techniques, and basic first aid and CPR.
- Qualified Mental Health Professional A/CProvides direct support, coaching, advice and education services to individual clients on a weekly basis.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Master's Degree In Psychology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 - 2005
Highlight your mental health associate certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.
Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your mental health associate resume:
- Medical Assistant
- Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT)
- Mental Health
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA)
- Certified Personal Trainer
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
- First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
- Certified Manager Certification (CM)
- Patient Care Technician