Personal Narrative: A Career In Counseling

I am interested in completing my practicum at Trinity Counseling Center, located in Anaheim, California. I am interested in completing my practicum at Trinity Counseling Center because I have personally received counseling and therapy at Trinity Counseling Center. I began to receive counseling services at Trinity in July of 2014 when I was going through a very difficult time in my life. Before I went to Trinity Counseling Center and began counseling sessions at Trinity, I received counseling services at another Christian counseling center. However, the counselor at this first Christian counseling center abandoned me. He gave me a list of local Christian counseling centers and then he abandoned me. After a few months of feeling very confused and hurt due to abandonment by my first counselor, I was able to begin receiving counseling services at Trinity Counseling

I never thought that I'd be writing to you out of all people. Everyone may question my sanity once they figure out I've been trying to write to you ever since you were convicted five years ago. It's just.... I couldn’t find the right words to explain how badly you hurt me. However, my therapist said that writing this letter will help me accept the fact that I made the dumbest mistake in the world seven years ago when we got married. Oh yeah, I'm going to a therapist. I find that quite ironic since one day I thought I could become a therapist, and specialize in women sciences, but instead, I'm going to one.

“Oh I got my heart right here. Oh I got my scars right here…” With the slow beat of The Weeknd, I took a right onto the highway. Where was I going? I didn’t know. I was just going to drive my thoughts away. Peering down into my windows, the moon shone on my interior, lighting up everything. It was just me, the moon, and my freedom. I turned the radio louder to blast out my thoughts and just think about the song. I do this therapeutically. Driving makes me feel better, especially when I have no certain destination or deadline. My only goal is to chase the moon in an eternal game of tag, but for some reason I’m always “it”.

My two preferred counseling setting are inpatient medical setting and child and adolescent. I feel that inpatient setting because it is a closed network of counseling for the client. During inpatient treatment client are able total focus on getting better to live a normal life. The client had the right to commit their self for help. It is an intensive treatment that provided a safe and secure surround for individual who are experiences problem. Inpatient client work along with mult-discilliary team to provide a full comprehensive plan. The mult-disipllnary team will come up with best possibility plan that are best for the client. Inpatient services provide a stabilization, evaluation, and intensive monitoring based on medical assessment conducted

Over the course of my internship, I have attended additional trainings and received certifications for my anticipated career in Mental Health Counseling. I have had the opportunity to attend a training and become CPR certified, become a Suicide Prevention QPR Certified Gatekeeper, in addition to registering for a Mental Health First Aid training. Within the agency, I was provided trainings on Credible, our documentation database, EVS to run client’s state funded insurance, and Navinet to run commercial or private insurance for clients. Human Services, Inc. provides one hour of training on Credible, which I believe should be improved. Also, more training should be provided when it comes to insurance because knowing and understanding insurance

As I began this counseling journey and foot into another community college, I did not have any expectations as I wanted to gain and learn as much as possible. I knew that I had to come into this process with an open mind and heart to gain as much insight as possible. Just as when I had least expected, I walked into the unknown of what will come through the door. I came across a student that seemed normal and nothing out of the ordinary. However, Marc opened up in the first session that he was diagnosed with autism which I was surprised. I have not yet worked with any individual with any disabilities and it definitely opened up my eyes. These past couple of sessions with Marc pushed me to go out of my comfort zone and feel more comfortable in

Counselor contacted Mr. McLaurin today for a counseling session. Mr. McLaurin states that he has been doing well. He informed me that he was having difficulty with the new sounds that he is hearing while wearing his hearing aids. We discussed that re-training the brain when it comes to new sounds is a mind condition. Counselor discussed some things that could help ease the process such as making a visual contact with the new sound so the brain has both the sound and visual cue as to what it is. We discussed speech signals and the need to identify what the sound is. I reminded Mr. McLaurin that while hearing is occurring whether he pay attention or not, listening takes effort. I informed him that it will take time and to continue to be patient.

Do you believe that your role as a therapist will end at the end of the day or will it be present in your personal life also?

Counseling starts with empathy, and as a result of my college experience, I am uniquely positioned to approach struggling adolescents with compassion.

A self of the therapist issue in my training is having a soft spot for one of the mother’s in my supervised visitation sessions. I am aware that doing supervised visitation is not a therapeutic session but I was told by my internship site that this would be a good experience to have. Before I met with this family I had a front and back page of notes of the background of the family and why the children were taking away from the mom. I automatically felt sorry for these kids and expect for them to be angry during the visitation. I also expected the Mom to be rude and in a way try to get over on me and break the rules because of my age. But once I met the family and sat through the first half of their visit the experience was different. Maybe

The presenting issue that led Erin to be in individual counseling was crying during the school day. Erin struggled to make it through the day without crying or wanted to go home. Her mother had been in contact with the School Counselor and was hoping that the counselor could meet with Erin to discuss what was going on. The counselor felt Erin was a great match to work with me. She explained that Erin was not afraid to share her feelings and would be willing to work with me individually. The counselor informed me that Erin has had a rough past two years. Erin had a lot of family problems and she did not like to leave her mom to come to school. The counselor informed me that she had previously worked with Erin last year and that she has been

I am Kristen Perkins. I have two children, Savannah, and Dakota. I am a single Mother,I work full time, and I am going to school full time. This is going to be a challenging, yet rewarding time for me. Once I get into a routine, and get my time management down pat I have full confidence in myself that I will do just fine. My program of study is in the Human Services field. In my field of study I intend upon being a substance abuse counselor. Being able to help others has always been a passion of mine. This past December my Husband passed away from overdosing on drugs. It was then that I realized what I was meant to do with my life. I could not save him, but I hope that the skills that I will learn in these next two years will prepare me to

In life you really shouldn't be surprised with how many events happen around you that you never planned for. When I was younger, I never planned on going back to school, but I did. It turned out that going back to school was the easy part, figuring out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life was a little bit more difficult. After changing my major three times, I was finally able to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Working to become a psychologist was a very challenging task to say the least, but it was a very rewarding one. When I first decided to go into mental health it was very disorienting, there are many branches of psychology that you can specialize in. although researching all the branches of psychology was very interesting, and informative on all the aspects of mental health.

During my fifty-year career, I have only had a few jobs. The last 30 of those years, I worked in the same office. Throughout this period, I reported directly to just a few different bosses, each having different management styles and personalities. I learned many new skills and was promoted to another section in this establishment, which I loved. The work was challenging, but the boss I was working for at the time proved more challenging than the work. I was depressed, anxious, paranoid and angry due to his abusive behavior. I was given assignments outside of my job description, which I always completed. I had to realize that the Lord had placed me there and He was the one I was working for; I did enjoy the work, but not the environment, I gained experience with international

The search for the perfect school is difficult. There is an immense amount of schools and options that make finding a starting point grueling work. The summer before senior year, I was hit with a mix of emotions that were filled with anxiety yet excitement to apply to the colleges that put me on the path to the rest of my life. I am dedicated to my goal of becoming a mental health counselor. College would be the beginning to explore different experiences. The dreaded task of finalizing the list of colleges I would apply to that following Fall had started and I was drowning in a sea of college brochures.