Mental Health Counseling: Personal Statement

I am specializing in mental health counseling, and this integrates a wellness-based method to counseling by providing support to a client’s individual requirements. As a counselor, I aspire to work with children and adolescents in unification with their families that are experiencing troubling matters. More specifically, children who are struggling academically, emotionally, or mentally for assorted reasons or conditions. I would like to incorporate cognitive behavior therapy, play therapy, family therapy, and dialect behavior therapy into my practice. When I got my first job at the age of seventeen, I began working as an extended day counselor for an elementary school. I had previously been a babysitter, and very much enjoyed spending my time working with children. During …show more content…
I have a passion for working with children and enjoyed helping those who need someone to talk to. I decided to pursue a degree in child psychology and during this time I was able to continue my experiences working with children. During my internship, I had the wonderful opportunity to work one on one with a 3-year-old boy on his speech, and this was the most rewarding experience I had ever had. To see the joy on his face when he was able to pronounce words accurately gave me the best feeling and I truly appreciated making him smile. Helping children reach their fullest potential is what I would love to do as a future mental health counselor.
The counseling profession has come a long way since its foundation. In the beginning stages, it was difficult to distinguish the counseling profession from those helping professions that are closely related (Melling, Hunt, & Nichols, 2011). Mental health counseling allowed for nondisabled individuals who needed treatment the ability to receive this treatment. Director of the Bicetre, Philippe Pinel, worked to ensure that individuals did not have to be “ill” or have