Kristi Ray

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Peer Support Specialist position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Dedicated professional with strong background in providing evidence-based counseling services to individuals, couples and families. Skilled in developing treatment plans, conducting assessments and documenting progress. Committed to advocating for mental health and well-being of clients. Hardworking Peer Support Specialist committed to coaching peers through life challenges. Develops customized plans for individual issues. Engaging and outgoing with strong communication skills. Focused professional ready to provide assistance in the form of scheduling appointments, accompanying individuals to meetings and supporting the recovery process. A multitasking Peer Support Specialist offering compassion and respect while communicating effectively. Hands-on Peer Support Specialist known for helping people in challenging situations and achieving recovery successes. Offering more than 1 and a half years of sobriety and ready to help others reclaim lives through use of proper services. Empathetic Peer Support Specialist with proven to build trusting relationships with clients. Caring with genuine concern for wellbeing of peers.

• Achieved making the Dean's List by completing myschooling with accuracy and efficiency.
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Kentucky Peer Support Specialist

• Certified Peer Support Specialist Addiction Recovery Care [February to present]
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     I know that self-care is very important for my recovery, and that I always have to remember this along with where I came from. I also have to share the "lived experience" with my clients, which also helps me because it reminds me of where I use to be, and NEVER want to be again. I want to help my clients with everything in me, in any way, shape, or form so that they know they always have some kind of support. They always need to feel that from somewhere, and I will always be that person for them...that is my job. This is also apart of my self-care, is knowing that I am doing my job to the fullest and giving it all I have got. I want to freely give to someone what was so freely given to me, and that was my LIFE again.

     Yoga is a huge part of my self care because it helps me to re-center and tune the thoughts out when things become stressful at work, or at home, or I just want to exercise. I love Yoga because it has taught me so much about myself and my needs as an individual. There is no better feeling than being in tune with your own body, mind, spirit, and soul.

     Being with my children is another aspect of my self-care because there was a time I did not get to see my children, and that kind of pain is crippling to the body. Just knowing that I always will have them, and I will do my best to be the best mom in the world means everything to me. Yes, I was very selfish, and more about myself than my kids in my active addiction days, but now I would do anything in the world for my two boys, and know the true meaning of unconditional love. With what I have put both of my children through, and they still love me, I will never understand but forever grateful for it and my life today.