Rationale for Seeking Specialization in a Clinical Counseling Program
After reading the overview of Capella University’s Master of Mental Health Counseling program and speaking with one of your advisors, I understand that this particular program will help me get right to where I would like to be in my profession, which is a Licensed Professional Counselor. There honestly isn’t any population of people that I’m not interested in working with, after taking different courses in my undergraduate program, I found myself interested in working with all populations of people.
It has always been a desire of mine to help others in any way that I possibly could. A main reason that I loved helping others came from watching my mother help others as …show more content…
This program will teach me everything I need to know in order to obtain a Licensure in Professional Counseling and also more skills and knowledge to apply to practical mental health settings. I’m aware that I will be required to do an internship as a part of the program’s curriculum which will also help prepare me to enter practical mental health settings, as well as two residencies that will give me an opportunity to interact with other students and staff, gather information to assist me with my program, and also to learn and practice basic skills that pertain to mental health …show more content…
For my sixty hours of volunteer work I decided to volunteer at a Child Life Center which was in a poverty stricken area in Norfolk, Va. At the child life center my job as a volunteer was to assist the children with their homework, help the staff monitor the children on local field trips, as well as serve as a positive role model for the children. The experience I had at Park Place Child Life Center was one I will honestly never forget. Although I didn’t get any actual counseling experience, I was able to learn the ways that the non-profit organization received their funding, I was able to gain experience in working with the youth, and I was also able to make a positive impact on the lives of children who were considered “at-risk youth”. To go there every day and be able to see the change the children had in their behaviors and how much just some attention and affection from adults impacted their behaviors was honestly amazing. I enjoyed the experience so much that I found myself continuing to volunteer there even after my volunteer hours were done. I initially had dreams of one day opening my own non-profit organization, as well as my own mental health facility and what I learned from my experience there just reassured me that opening my own non-profit
After reading the overview of Capella University’s Master of Mental Health Counseling program and speaking with one of your advisors, I understand that this particular program will help me get right to where I would like to be in my profession, which is a Licensed Professional Counselor. There honestly isn’t any population of people that I’m not interested in working with, after taking different courses in my undergraduate program, I found myself interested in working with all populations of people.
It has always been a desire of mine to help others in any way that I possibly could. A main reason that I loved helping others came from watching my mother help others as …show more content…
This program will teach me everything I need to know in order to obtain a Licensure in Professional Counseling and also more skills and knowledge to apply to practical mental health settings. I’m aware that I will be required to do an internship as a part of the program’s curriculum which will also help prepare me to enter practical mental health settings, as well as two residencies that will give me an opportunity to interact with other students and staff, gather information to assist me with my program, and also to learn and practice basic skills that pertain to mental health …show more content…
For my sixty hours of volunteer work I decided to volunteer at a Child Life Center which was in a poverty stricken area in Norfolk, Va. At the child life center my job as a volunteer was to assist the children with their homework, help the staff monitor the children on local field trips, as well as serve as a positive role model for the children. The experience I had at Park Place Child Life Center was one I will honestly never forget. Although I didn’t get any actual counseling experience, I was able to learn the ways that the non-profit organization received their funding, I was able to gain experience in working with the youth, and I was also able to make a positive impact on the lives of children who were considered “at-risk youth”. To go there every day and be able to see the change the children had in their behaviors and how much just some attention and affection from adults impacted their behaviors was honestly amazing. I enjoyed the experience so much that I found myself continuing to volunteer there even after my volunteer hours were done. I initially had dreams of one day opening my own non-profit organization, as well as my own mental health facility and what I learned from my experience there just reassured me that opening my own non-profit