Therapist resume examples from 2025
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How to write a therapist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in therapist-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some therapist interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
- Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
- Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
- Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
- Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a therapist resume:
- Social Work
- Patients
- Group Therapy Sessions
- Crisis Intervention
- Mental Health
- Patient Care
- Community Resources
- Therapeutic Services
- Therapy Services
- Rehabilitation
- Discharge Planning
- Autism
- Substance Abuse Issues
- Foster Care
- Intake Assessments
- Mental Illness
- Clinical Supervision
- Clinical Services
- Family Therapy Sessions
- Therapeutic Interventions
- Clinical Documentation
- Eating Disorders
- Psychosocial Assessments
- Medicaid
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Crisis Management
- Individual Therapy Sessions
- Mental Health Issues
- DBT
- Applied Behavior Analysis
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How to structure your work experience
Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the therapist position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:
- List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
- 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.
How to write therapist experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- 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.
Here are great bullet points from therapist resumes:
Work history example #1
Trained Counselor
George Junior Republic
- Trained yearly in CPR, fire safety, first aid, safe phyical management.
- Coordinated curriculum with fellow CITs, mentors and supervisors.
- Maintained close communications with scholarship recipients and center administrators.
- Encouraged teens to communicate openly and honestly to their families resulting in decreased fights and arguments in their family units.
- Certified in general lifeguarding, water-front lifeguarding, open-water lifeguarding, CPR, and first aid.
Work history example #2
Therapist
Private Practice
- Worked with individuals and couples to alleviate depression, overcome past traumas, and improve communication and relationships.
- Specialized in working with trauma survivors, sexual abuse, children with sexual behavior problems and adolescents.
- Provided Occupational Therapy services in pediatric facility (BOCES)
- Developed practice providing individual and family therapy to clients suffering from depression, weight loss, trauma, abandonment, etc.
- Provided individual and group EMDR consultation.
Work history example #3
Child And Adolescent Therapist
Private Practice
- Experienced in used of clinical research based Trauma-Focused CBT to treat abused and traumatized children.
- Worked with individuals and couples to alleviate depression, overcome past traumas, and improve communication and relationships.
- Specialized in working with children experiencing severe behavior disorders and abuse/trauma.
- Used knowledge of counseling, various theoretical framework and techniques to treat traumatized and victimized clients.
- Worked as a Christian Counselor and later as LPC when licensing was final.
Work history example #4
Staff Therapist
University of Florida
- Initiated and maintained mechanical ventilators, IPPB, EZPAP, Drug Aerosols.
- Worked within the emergency department, children's hospital, and trauma.
- Performed ventilator and BiPAP/CPAP management per RT protocols, along with set-up and troubleshooting.
- Administered complex respiratory therapy procedures in the evaluation and treatment of individuals who were involved in traumatic events.
- Evaluated and treated adults in an acute rehabilitation hospital specializing in rehab for TBI,spinal chord injury and stroke.
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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:
Doctoral Degree in psychology
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2014 - 2017
Highlight your therapist certifications on your resume
Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your therapist resume:
- Certification in Forensic Social Work (CFSW)
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
- Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA)
- Master Therapist (MTAPA)
- Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
- Certified School Social Work Specialist (C-SSWS)
- Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC)
- Certified Professional - Human Resource (IPMA-CP)
- Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS)
- Certified Case Manager (ACM)