Michael A. Michnya has over 30 years of experience providing clinical and supervisory services. He has managed family preservation programs with budgets over $445,000 annually and supervised over 5 direct care staff. He provides individual and family counseling, needs assessments, treatment plans, and crisis intervention. Michnya has trained over 35 staff, supervised services for over 1,200 clients, and written policies and procedures for multiple programs. He received the Employee of the Month award in 2012 and has developed numerous educational workshops.

1. Michael A. Michnya, M.Ed., L.P.C.
PO Box 424, Somers Point, NJ 08244-2140
Cell: 609-214-0547; Home: 609-601-9553; Home Office: 609-601-0352;
Work Phone: 609-569-0239 ext. 1118; Email: mamichnya@comcast.net
SUPERVISORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS
 Market, brand, budget, bill, and conduct other tasks necessary for running a limited
private counseling, coaching, mediation and training practice;
 Oversee the combined budgets family preservation services (FPS) and in home parenting
(IHP) programs of more than $445,000.00 annually;
 Recruit, orient, train and supervise five full-time in-home bachelor's level FPS and IHP
direct care workers;
 Provide 24/7 on-call coverage to all staff and their caseloads;
 Conduct over 400 hours of live, individual and group supervision annually;
 Review all FPS and IHP charts and outgoing documentation to ensure professionalism,
completeness and accuracy;
 Facilitate weekly case consultation meetings as well as ad hoc Process Action Team
meetings as committee chairperson;
 Market the FPS and IHP programs to referral sources;
 Coordinate and assign referrals to staff;
 Assess staff competencies, evaluate job performance, and plan for and promote staff
development;
 Liaison with Division of Child Protection and Permanency local offices, regional contract
administrators, central office support team as well as the FPS supervisor’s network;
 Serve on the FSA Continuous Quality Improvement team;
 Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual contract reports;
 Establish, implement and evaluate annual and five year plans;
 Managed an additional four staff in FSA's First Chance Juvenile Diversion Program
(1996-2002), Home Electronic Detention System Case Management (HEDS) and Second
Chance HEDS (2000-2002);
 Coordinated and facilitated referrals to the Cape Counseling Services (CCS) Family-
Adolescent Alcohol Program (FAAP) from community agencies.
CLINICAL SKILLS
 Provide home, office and community-based individual and family counseling, psycho-
educational skill building, case-management and 24/7 on-call crisis intervention to
clients as needed;
 Conduct needs assessments, diagnostic and intake interviews;
 Advocate for clients with and facilitate linkage to other needed treatment providers and
services;
 Develop and maintain client treatment plans, document progress, and prepare clinical
reports and treatment summaries;
 Provided individual, family, play therapy, therapeutic storytelling and group counseling
to teenage substance abusers and children of addicts/alcoholics and their families;
 Provide psycho-education about addictive disease, recovery and relapse prevention to
teenage substance abusers and their parents;
 Co-facilitated weekly multi-family groups with teenage substance abusers and their
families;
 Participated in two-way mirror structural/strategic outpatient family therapy team;
 Taught pro-social life skills to and led recreational and educational activities with teens
in long-term substance abuse residential treatment;

2. Michael A. Michnya, M.Ed., L.P.C.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Earned the Employee of the Month award in September, 2012
 Trained more than 35 bachelor's level staff to provide intensive, home and community
based, solution focused brief individual and family counseling;
 Supervised service delivery to more than 1,200 clients referred to FPS since the
program's inception in 1990 as well as hundreds of IHP, JDP and HEDS clients
 Wrote and revised policies and procedures for the FPS, JDP, HEDS and IHP programs;
 Reviewed over 150 charts for FSA's Utilization Review and Quality Assurance
Committee;
 Coordinated the development and implementation of FSA’s employee recognition
system;
 Organized and implemented three teen entrepreneurial development projects and one
parent skill building weekend workshop;
 Wrote and obtained two $15,000 grants to serve at-risk minority male youth;
 Served on the Council On Accreditation (COA) FPS Standards Committee and assisted in
developing COA’s national FPS standards;
 Developed 17 educational workshops on various topics for consumers, clinicians and
organizations;
 Conducted presentations for Family Service Association; the Rutgers School of Social
Work, Department of Continuing Education, Family Preservation Institute; the Mental
Health Cultural Competence Center; and the South Jersey Health System Garden AHEC
WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
Clinical Workshops
 Basic Attending, Responding and Influencing Skills
 Family Therapy with Adolescents
 Solution Focused Brief Therapy
 Developing Therapeutic Goals
 Intro to Motivational Interviewing
 Using the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale
 Documentation: Assessment
 Documentation: Progress Notes
Consumer Workshops
 Goal Setting: Short & Long Term Strategies to Get the Job You Want
 Communication Skills: The Key to Getting & Keeping the Job You Want
 Study Smarter, Not Harder
Clinical and Consumer Workshops
 Therapeutic Storytelling
 Special Play
 Time Management – The Morgenstern Method
 Stress Management for the 21st Century
 Intro to Love and Logic Parenting
Organizational Workshops
 Building Your Employee Recognition System

3. Michael A. Michnya, M.Ed., L.P.C.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Family Service Association; Egg Harbor Township, NJ; 3/90 - 9/14
Family Preservation Services Program Manager, 3/90 – 9/14;
In Home Parenting Program Manager, 5/13 - 9/14;
Employee Assistance Counselor (fee-for-service); 7/94 – 2/09
Family Support Services Program Manager (job title change), 1996-2002
Consumer Credit Counseling Services Budget Counselor (part-time); 10/90-2/91
Fooks-Michnya Associates, LLC; Somers Point, NJ US, 10/85 - Present
Co-owner and Licensed Professional Counselor, Coach, Mediator, and Trainer
Consortium for Services to Industry, Absecon, NJ, 2/91 - 6/94
Employee Assistance Counselor (fee-for-service);
Cape Counseling Services, Cape May Court House, NJ US; 10/86 - 7/90
Family-Adolescent Alcohol Program Coordinator & Primary Therapist (10/86-3/90)
Emergency Mental Health Screener (part-time; 4/87-7/90)
The Therapeutic Center at Fox Chase (a.k.a. "The Bridge"), Philadelphia, PA, 11/82 - 9/86
Night Counselor (1982-1984)
Life Skills Counselor & Tutor (1984-1986)
Various full and part-time teaching positions, Philadelphia, PA, 9/80-6/84
EDUCATION, LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
 Temple University, M.Ed., Counseling Psychology (GPA 3.96) Philadelphia, PA, 1986
 La Salle College, B.A., Secondary Education, Philadelphia, PA US, 1980
 Licensed Professional Counselor State of New Jersey # 37PC00214700 (11/99- Present)
 Love and Logic Program Facilitator, Love and Logic Institute, Boulder, CO, 2012-2015
 Mediator Certification, Community Mediation /Community Justice Institute, Atlantic
City, NJ, 2000
 Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner Certificate, McAbee-Nesbitt
Associates, Philadelphia, PA, 1990
 Mental Health Screening Certification, State of New Jersey, 8/89 - 8/90
 Active Parenting Instructor Certificate, Active Parenting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, 1984
AFFILIATIONS
 American Counseling Association, Member
 NJ Counseling Association, Member
References are available upon request.