A Career As A Therapist

A recent extracurricular activity that I hope will impact my career choice of becoming a therapist is the volunteer work that I do at the hospital in the rehabilitation department. In my freshmen high school year, I participated in a career day class that included visits to Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina. During one visit, I heard about a summer internship program and I chose to sign up for the program. I have now been volunteering in that program for the past three summers. One aspect of my internship included receiving feedback from several certified therapists regarding steps I should take in my career path. The therapists gave me their opinions about planning my career path, including the need to take the GRE test

The choices we make early in life have an enormous impact on our future. I have always known that I wanted to directly impact people’s lives and my personal experiences have set me on the school-counseling path. In the future, I would love to influence another generation of students to soar for their dreams.

I am Melinda, a firm believer in Jesus Christ, so I strive to live righteously. Originally, we are from New Orleans, Louisiana, we are survivors of the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, however, since then we have moved a few times, and now we are residents of Florida. My husband and I have five wonderful kids. We are grateful to God for them being grown and on their own, as a result, traveling has become our new hobby.

My career goals are to become at license professional counselor, license chemical dependency counselor and a certified crisis counselor who specializes in trauma and career counseling. The steps I will take to achieve my career goals are, finish my degree and pass the required exams required by the state of Texas. In addition, I have to take 3, 000 supervised hours for the state of Texas to be license as a professional counselor. Since, I already have my LCDC-I, I just need 4,000 supervised hours to complete my chemical dependency counselor license. My personal growth is; I would like to growth as a professional counselor. I want to be able to be knowledgeable in the different approaches that I uses doing my practice. I believe the best way

With this experience it prompted me to go into therapy, however when I began to practice as a therapist intern. I still felt unfulfilled, I felt that I wasn’t doing enough for my clients. After approx. 5 years of that, I spoke with a social worker, and I then realized that becoming a social worker is what I needed to do. I needed to become a wraparound service for my clients.

From since I was a young child I have always wanted to go into the field of Human Services. As I have grown I have decided that I would go into the Criminal Justice side of Human Services. By this I mean that I still want to help people, but I want to help people who have become criminals or who are on the path of becoming criminals. I especially want to help children and teens who have been in and out of a Juvenal Detention Center. From this passion I have decided that I want to go into one of three careers. These careers are as follows; Juvenile Defense Attorneys, Juvenile Counselor, or Juvenile Corrections Officer.

In therapy, I discovered that I was codependent. I was constantly manipulated by my mother, desperately needing her approval, but to no avail. As I learned to cope with everything my mother had put and puts me through, I realized my self-worth. I was able to help people again. Not only could I help people again, but I willingly accepted help, especially from my therapist. I would talk for four sessions in a row with her never saying anything, and I would reach the conclusions to the problems myself. That’s when I realized that a therapist is exactly what I want to be for the rest of my life.

As an Autistic Behavior Therapist Trainee, I am constantly teaching Makena, the girl with Autism, life skills and hope that one day they will stick with her. Each day at work I interact with Makena and am able to see the progress she has made. One day in November, I arrived at work and started the therapy with Makena. To my surprise, she acknowledged me and said "Hi Ashley" without any prompting! Knowing that I was able to successfully teach Makena a new, seemingly insignificant, life skill, made me so proud of her. The feeling of successfully teaching is

I have 20 plus years as a State of California employee and have worked in several state departments. I began my State career as a Psychiatric Technician with the Department of Developmental Services. Subsequently I worked with the California Conservation Corps as an Office Technician and Personnel Specialist; the Department of Transportation. In addition I worked as a Staff Services Analyst with the Department of Personnel in their HR Department. Currently I am privileged to work with the Department of Social Services as a Licensing Program Analyst. I have five plus years working as a Licensing Program Analyst. A major portion of (LPA) duties are conducting reviews of facilities to identify any immediate health and safety risk to children.

Scenario 1: A client, who has recently lost his job as an automobile dealer, is interested in exploring other career opportunities and has narrowed his search to those found below. Specifically, he is interested in a job that “pays well.” Which of the following occupations would you recommend and why?

Finding a career may be an imitating approach conversely, it may be the most important factor in the long run. The world offers thousands of various occupations that benefit everyone around them. The occupation I assume would benefit me also others around would be to become a Physical Therapist. Physical Therapists, also abbreviated as PTs, are sharply-intelligent health care providers who educate, rehabilitate, treat, and prevent their patients from pain in the human anatomy (American Physical Therapy Association). Aspiring physical therapists should take into consideration the duties, education, requirements, offering schools, salary, and alternate jobs to ensure their decision in this profession.

My Dream of Becoming a Mental Health Counselor Becoming a counselor has been a dream for me for some time now. Being able to assist women, men, and children seems like the best job for me due to the empathy that I share with many individuals. A mental health counselor is not just a job, it is an opportunity to help people and give back to the community that we share. As a military spouse who has dealt with multiple deployments and meeting other wives has given me an opportunity to help them get through tough times by hearing people out and providing advice to keep going. Many of the women I have met have children which needed attention and guidance to deal with the hardship that one encounters.

Many times you are asked the question, what do you want to do in the future? The answer to this question varies depending on your age. When I was younger I would have said I wanted to be a teacher when I got older because my mom worked with kids. However now that I am a senior getting ready to make a real decision that will affect my future my answer has changed. In five years I plan to be in graduates school working towards my degree in physical therapy. Right after I complete high school I want to go straight into college. To become a physical therapist you need to get your doctorates degree which can take up to eight to ten years. You also have to attend an internship to get experience with the field. It is good to have multiple job shadows so you know what you are getting yourself into. In order to be a physical therapist you need patience but also need to know how to get people to listen to you.

Physical Therapist helps maintain and restore a patients mobility or function and limit their physical disabilities of patients with disease or injuries. They work in many environments like hospitals, outpatient, clinics or sports and fitness facilities. A full time PT works forty hours a week their jobs can be labor intensive with moving equipment or patients or help them move or bend for their exercises. Physical therapist usually go to school for six to seven years. Physical Therapist is an effective career goal to help patients restore there mobility and function back to their daily activates (ExploreHealthCareers).

As a young athlete, running had always been a least favorite past-time for me. Unfortunately, every sport I played was dependent on that very physical act. Millions of suicide runs and lay-ups in basketball, and even more base runs in softball at least distracted me because I was running for a purpose. My short stint on the cross-country team demonstrated to me that I may have excelled at fast-twitch running, but long-distance running was not my forte, made clear by my omnipresent side stitches. My senior year of high school came and to my surprise, running would be the one thing I missed so dearly. My short time as a starting varsity player in basketball came to an end when I completely tore my left ACL. A host of changes came from just one incident.