Becoming a counselor would mean the world to me because I love helping others that are in need. In my personal life‚ I have dealt with people using drugs‚ stress‚ body reputation‚ and mental illness. I have seen others suffer from emotional‚ physical‚ and mental abuse from family members‚ friends‚ partners‚ and mates. Throughout my life‚ friends and family members have always asked me‚ why I smile or why am I always happy. I tell them because I am stress free and I help others with issues. Some will
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western Massachusetts. It was the second overnight camp I had gone to‚ and the only camp where I found a supportive community which fostered my social growth. The friends that I made and counselors I had at this camp encouraged me to take risks in several ways‚ and my love for the camp led to my becoming a counselor five years after my first summer‚ which helped me decide that I wanted to teach. When I began attending this camp‚ I had just finished seventh grade and was incredibly shy. At school
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Comment at length regarding why you want to receive preparation as a counselor. I want to retrieve preparation as a school counselor because it would be a very rewarding career. High school was a critical time in my life because there were many teachers‚ coaches‚ and counselors that invested in my development and shaped who I am today. Many of these faculty members became role models and major inspirations to me. My counselor in high school was particularly inspiring to me because he made a personal
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My experience as a substance abuse counselor intern with a rural non-profit substance abuse treatment agency afforded me the opportunity to effectively learn and manage many operational aspects of a treatment facility. The position provided me with an appropriate skill set to deliver effective substance abuse treatment services to individuals with a DSM 5 Substance Use Disorder diagnosis within an Outpatient and Intensive Outpatient treatment setting. As a Western Regional Drug Court Treatment Team
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Running Head: COUNSELOR INTERVIEW 1 Professional Counselor Interview: Thomas Waterhouse‚ LMHC‚ PA Jennifer Mongelluzzi Northwestern University COUNSELOR INTERVIEW 2 Professional Counselor Interview: Thomas Waterhouse‚ LMHC‚ PA Thomas Waterhouse is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Palm Harbor‚ Florida. He operates a private practice and provides services in nearly all areas of treatment. What was so impressive to me about Tom is his passion for his profession after being a counselor for 40 years
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beginning of my undergraduate education‚ I have had an interest in working with young children. I want to help them through the relevant issues they face today such as cyberbullying and growing up in a social media world. I desire to be a school counselor. I believe that I have the experience‚ personality and drive to mentor and help guide young students. I began college as an elementary education major‚ I had a passion for teaching‚ and completed 100+ hours of volunteering. I shadowed teachers
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Feminist Therapy Dr. Rampage a Feminist Counselor looks at how gender as it’s construed socially impacts the client’s problem and this is a case where a single mother‚ who is single-handedly raising her 6-year-old son by herself where the father is not very active in the son’s life as a responsible man should be. Due to the heavy load of responsibility‚ like working long hours and her son failing in school.(19:45min). How does this Feminist theory resonate with me? Watching this video made me think
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Working with people is what I am passionate about. Two summers ago I had the incredible opportunity to be a camp counselor. My favorite part of that entire experience was watching as each of the girls in my cabin began to see what they were fully capable of. Whether it was participating in the group activities‚ or opening up about their lives without fear of judgment. There is something so satisfying when I watch as someone improves his or her life and I was a part of that process. This is one of
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I have known Tiger Mou for a little over a year now as his College Counselor at GSSM‚ a small public two year residential school for students from across the state of South Carolina. He was also a student in a College Seminar class that I taught last spring. Academically‚ Tiger willing accepted the offer to transfer from Riverside High School in Greer‚ SC‚ which offers a very rigorous curriculum to the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM). Here at GSSM‚ classes are
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Genetic Counselor Decision-Making Two parents‚ Jenny and Bob Miller‚ are both well educated and rich. They have two children‚ James and Andrew‚ who are both stricken with muscular dystrophy. The prognosis is that their muscular systems will gradually deteriorate‚ resulting in an early death. Yet the advances of medicine hold out the promise of a possible cure in the foreseeable future with gene therapy. Closer to hand is the possibility that embryonic muscle cells from normal individuals might
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