My Training At The Community Counseling Center

As a Deck Captain in Colley House, it is my responsibility to help keep all of my

Applying my expert knowledge and skills, during clinical and after earning my license, I will work with an assortment of ages, deficiencies, miscellaneous and multiethnic people. I will go all-out to work with different therapists to acquire new perspectives, in a variation of circumstances and environments. My efforts will develop my competence of self-reflection, by providing day-to-day experiences to catalyze development, life-enhancing engagements, and trained socialization. I will achieve my aspiration to positively help individuals, gain or reinstate freedom, accrediting to a more filling quality of life. After getting my license, a continuous goal I have, is to enlarge and grow, all through a lifetime of practice, by attending numerous workshops. When significantly knowledgeable and well established, I will focus on unmet job-related and educational needs in societies that lack easily reachable services. Goals I have will determinedly be adapted and augmented, as I continue to realize my fortes, desires, and distinct aptitudes in my distinctive career path. Outlining future goals, they will revolve around permanent socialization and information, in Occupational

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

The readings impacted my identity as a counselor by understanding the principles, goals, and strategies of treatment in addiction. Therefore, the materials provide me instructions and strategies for effective interventions in counseling. These materials are beneficial in setting the treatment plan for addiction as an evolving master’s level counselor.

I’m not surprised in response to “Hazards of Practice.” I had heard this before I chose my degree program. Things that you can do to minimize Hazards of Practice are making time for yourself and take a break as needed. I do understand that my role is to help the client but you also must make time for yourself which will be beneficial for you and the client.

My professional development goals have been established along the DPT program. As I was taking classes I had defining moments where I could clearly see my career direction moving forward. I have become more conscious about the importance of pursuing high quality continuing education courses and professional development opportunities, beneficial not only to me, but to the over ninety therapists working at our practice and the 20+ Level II students coming for their clinical internships at our agency every year. As we all have been instructed, we are accountable for learning and change (American Physical Therapy Association, 2012). Also, under the core value of professional duty, we are called to mentor others to

Although my journey within the Clinical Mental Health program at the University of Scranton has come to an end, however, my journey to become a licensed professional counselor is still underway. As I tie up loose ends by handing in time sheets and remaining assignments, I find myself in a reflective peaceful space. As I look back over the years that I have spent within the program perfecting my craft, I can’t help but think that I am truly blessed. It is one thing to choose a career, but it is another to answer a calling. I say with great conviction, that I am blessed to be called to such a meaningful purpose. It is only by the grace of God that I can look back and see the person that I have matured into, not only personally but professionally. I remain humble and grateful for the opportunity, not only to reflect but, to have made it through this part of my journey. I started this program excited, yet, full of self-doubt and now in my last semester, I can gladly report that I am lesser of the two. Over the years, I have embraced challenges and endured self-doubt and it is through my internship that I have felt growth in solidifying my self-confidence. With this developed confidence I prepare to embrace the next chapter of my career with greater excitement and enthusiasm.

I would like to apply for a Counselors-in-Training position at Royal City Soccer Club to be a Counselor in the future, as I have found many interests while volunteering here last summer.

When thinking about the field of clinical counseling, I was at first hesitant because I did not want spend time in school for so long. School had always been more of a challenge for me and I was not as confident in going to the next level. once I graduated with my undergraduate degree I applied to Capella. Upon getting accepted and speaking with my enrollment counselor I found goals that where measurable to me. I first let my counselor that I know that I wanted to be done in a two-year time span. With this plan I will be taking two classes a quarter and set to finish in the year 2018.

From my perspective, supervision is beneficial in many ways to the counselor-in-training. By being supervised, the counselor-in-training, will be able to receive some value feedback from an experience counselor, whom can help them learn how to improve certain techniques, their communication and nonverbal languages. It is very important for the counselor-in-training to follow the codes of ethics, because the counselor needs to be aware of their strengths and weakness in leading groups (Thomas and Panders, 2008). If a counselor is practicing beyond their scope of expertise than they might cause more harm to the group member or

There are many different things that I wish to accomplish throughout my life, become a doctor, start a family, and be a counselor. My dream career, however, is a different than being a counselor. I want to open a nonprofit that will house young women who were at one time in their life victims of sex trafficking or the sex industry and give these women shelter, safety, and teach them a skill and how to protect themselves.

The past weeks at my clinical were memorable and exciting, I was exposed to many learning opportunities, which I took advantage of. Also, I had to provide care to more patients than required per shift and each patient had their different ways of care. From week one I was nervous, shy and had a little difficulty developing a therapeutic relationship with my client. However, by the end of week one, I had so much confidence in providing care to my patients. I was placed in the complex continuing care which involved complex skills and complex patients. My unit had two sides, one side was rehab floor and the other side was complex floor; so I had the opportunity to work in both floors. My greatest growth were mastering the skills needed in providing care to the complex patients like suctioned patients with tracheostomy, monitored patient with continuous bladder irrigation, assessed, changed and care for patient’s ostomy independently, administered feedings and medication via G-tube, packed a deep wound, developed a therapeutic relationship with my patient, been able to achieve many skills required for semester four and providing emotional support for my client. By week three, the expectations required to care for my patients were more because it was the half of the pregrad, I strived to accomplish most of the skills listed in the self-assessment skills. I had my ups and downs with my patients which would have discouraged me about my profession but it did not, rather it

I am Rhonda Wilson and completed 20 years of service in the U.S. Navy with specialty of being a communication supervisor. Upon retiring, I realized that working with equipment was not my passion. Seeing the ramifications of Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom first hand, I was compelled to assistance war veterans. Working as a Veterans Benefits counselors was instrumental to my career of empowering the veterans population, but there was a deeper need for assistance with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral disorders. For this reason, I earned MA in Community Counseling from Argosy University of Atlanta. I am requesting extension of APC 002824 until September 2018 for the following reasons:

I am mandated by the state of Georgia to disclose to appropriate social agencies any current or past child abuse and names of abusers that you reveal to me.

- I am very sensitive about others opinion about me. This would make me uncomfortable to ask clients’ ideas about the session, how was my counseling, etc.