What Are My Professional Goals

My professional goals are as a License Professional Counselor licensure, and with that, work with women in crisis, specifically with unplanned pregnancies, teenage pregnancies, human trafficking survivors, and domestic abuse survivors. I have a great appreciation for lay counseling in the church, and the many ways in which the church of Jesus Christ has been caring for souls for millennia. I would like to receive my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling because I believe counseling is something God has called me to as a profession, and as such I believe receiving a high degree of theological and scientific training is essential to excellence in the field. Specifically, I would like to study at Liberty University because I believe it offers the best integration of faith and academics that I have seen. Currently, I am finishing my undergraduate in Psychology-Christian Counseling through Liberty’s online program, and I was impressed at the quality of the counseling program. Counseling is somewhat of a unique field to study as a Christian, because of the animosity generated from the secular psychology field towards Christianity, and vise versa. Having studied psychology at a previous university, I was somewhat disappointed at the approaches I saw to solving this paradox:
Between the CACREP accreditation, which certifies a high-quality academic education, the true dedication of the professors to mentoring their students to become excellent professional, and the dedication to a Christ-centered everything, I believe that I can both be greatly impacted by the Clinical Health program, and I hope to grow in my relationships with my professors and other students. When I visited Liberty, I was on one of the walls of the Behavioral Sciences buildings the words: Faith, Science, and Practice in Motion, and that was a significant motivation in my final decision to