Explain Why I Want To Obtain A Degree In Psychology And Counseling

Authors Hawkins and Clinton (2015) starts the text “The New Christian Counselor: A Fresh Biblical and Transformational Approach” by explaining their vision of the future of Christian counseling and remind us as counselors our role in performing our duties spiritually by helping shape us into better counselors. The authors do this throughout by explaining their definition, direction. and focus of the counseling practice in the 21st century.

By the age of fourteen, I wanted to become a hairdresser. Although I always wanted to become a hairdresser, I knew that I wanted to help make a difference within others life, by giving them a voice and having a person to talk to. Due to my upbringing, I never had a voice and was silence in more than one ways. I have found myself feeling alone and unable to express how I felt. Realizing how much my childhood had impacted me I made sure to always find ways to help others and with this it provided me the opportunity to go after my dream of becoming a therapist.

Since moving to the United States, a land of opportunity, I followed the immigrant tradition of working hard to pursue my passion/ambition to study and get my degree. I started attending community college a year after I came to the United states. I spent three years at Northern Virginia Community College and transferred to the university of Virginia to earn a B.A degree. I have always kept a full-time job while attending community college to cover my living expenses and help my parents back home Throughout my journey of achieving a higher degree, I learned how to work hard and how to overcome challenges in my own personal and academic life. Now I am very confident in achieving my goals.

As a college student approaching my senior year at Albany State University, I have experienced a wide range of psychology courses that have introduced me to different ways of critically thinking about my future. However, one particular class that has given me a new insight to the profession that I hope to encounter would be the Professions of Psychology. The purpose of this course was to introduce scholars to the different professions involved with psychology. While taking this course, I carefully researching the different fields, and cross-referenced the descriptions with my passion for improvement, I decided that I wanted a career in the Industrial/ Organizational field of psychology. This course had the greatest impact because it not only explored the different professions, but it also helped me understand what was needed in order to pursue a

The choices we make early in life have an enormous impact on our future. I have always known that I wanted to directly impact people’s lives and my personal experiences have set me on the school-counseling path. In the future, I would love to influence another generation of students to soar for their dreams.

For the last fifteen years I have served as an active duty Chaplain assistant in the United States Army. During that time I was responsible for providing central office administrative support by managing, and distributing correspondence, messages, forms and record keeping. I have Coordinated with organizations and agencies and acted as a liaison to augment Chaplain Programs and functions. I have conducted peer-to-peer counseling in the areas of grief management, suicide prevention, and organizational morale. Throughout my time in the Army I also learned such skills as conflict resolution, critical thinking and time management. I believe that these skills will be a great asset to achieving my goals and completing my degree at Colorado Christian University. The Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies degree program will allow me

With basketball completely out of the equation, my quintessential career path would be to become some sort of counselor. Before jumping to conclusions assuming a counselor is someone who just sits back with a pen and notepad all day giving the occasional “how does that make you feel”, a lot of things need to be taken into consideration about how much time, and effort and strenuous work is required to pursue this career path. A counselor (depending on what field) is typically someone who uses therapeutic techniques to help patients strengthen existing qualities and skills used in everyday life. Ideally I would like to become a school counselor to begin coping with the minds of the youth, then hopefully move on from there. In order to do so

Personally, I enjoyed this article because I look forward to being able to integrate the Bible and Scriptures into my own counseling practices. I feel that both my knowledge of psychology and the Word of God will allow me to help people through anything. God’s word will be the basis of my treatment plans; I will also need my background and insight from psychology.

Even though I heard whispers of my call in my early twenties, I had disregarded any thoughts of seminary as passing notions or fleeting whims. I worked various positions prior to my medical career for the simple purpose of funding my education. However, one thing remained constant. Children. Even as a child myself, I was always volunteering for children’s activities within the church, from nursery attendant to VBS crafts, Sunday school teacher to Education Committee member. Jobs which did not consist of interaction with youth, left me craving a connection. Even as my medical career began, I found myself volunteering at the local YMCA as a soccer coach. Looking back at my gifts and passions, it finally became clear to me that God was calling me to youth

I was born in the year 1972 in Springfield, Missouri and I grew up in Polk County. I had lived an uneventful, "westernly" normal life up until which point I realized I am called into full time ministry. In retrospect this is a calling or concept which I knew fairly early in life and yet denied with all my strength. I had all the excuses, i.e. "I am terrified to speak in public", "I hate crowds", "I am inarticulate", "What do I know about the Bible"...This list goes on. Sometime in the late 2000's I decided I would go back to school and get a degree in psychology or counseling and put it to some sort of use "at church", I took classes, got the Biblical Studies certificate through CCU, changed majors two or three times, and did very much average work. I

McMinn’s book is an excellent tool for Christian counselors, secular counselors and other professions who actively engage in helping people. It is also an essential tool for those who are seeking an understanding of the integration of spirituality, theology, and psychology. In addition, it is crucial to recognize the array of both personal and professional challenges that Christian counselors encounter when integrating an interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approach.

My senior year of high school I sat in my moms car on the Purdue campus and cried over a pamphlet about veterinary medicine. I had worked myself to the bone for four years of high school and I was changing my mind completely after my acceptance. To many people it may not have seemed like a big deal at such a young age, however I am a planner. I like to know exactly what I am going to be doing and when exactly I will be doing it. To see the future that I had so painstaking planned fall apart was a scary experience. As my mom sat there thinking she asked me: "Samantha, what do you really enjoy? What is your passion? If you could pick any career regardless of the pay what would it be?" This was a tough question for me. I had chosen vet med specifically because of the high salary and my love of animals. The fact of the matter was I did not enjoy science and I really did not enjoy math. My heart was with history, government, and politics. As we drove home that day we bounced around several career options within my chosen fields. Coming into IUPUI I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do, thanks in big part to my internship at a local law office.

She said, “You know; I still dream about her. But now when I dream about her, she’s standing there with her arms outstretched telling me everything is ok.” The next day a woman was brought in and she heard about me. She called me to the corner of the room and said, ”I don’t want anyone to hear what I have to say because I don’t want them to think I’m crazy. There are demons in our house and they make the walls bleed. My mother is in a wheel chair and I try to tell her, but she won’t listen to me. They put something in me and I won’t stop bleeding.” Well, I prayed for her, I rebuked all the demons from her, her home, and I prayed for God to open her mom’s ears so she will listen to what her daughter has to say. The next day she came up to me (all bubbly) and said “Guess what, I just came from the nurse, she gave me something to stop the bleeding. I just got off the phone with my mom and she’s ready to hear what I have to say.” It wasn’t until that moment when I noticed how bright and beautiful she shined, where as the day before she was ugly like a dark shadow or a

I feel blessed for the opportunity to study Bible history and theology at Northeastern Seminary. Since seminary was never in my plans, I know God orchestrated this opportunity. As I reflect, my preparation for seminary begin in 2005 when I had a desire to become a Christian Counselor for women and children. As a result, I enrolled in a Christian Counseling program offered by the American Association of Christians Counselors. When I completed the program, I discovered that in order to become certified I needed a Master’s degree. Unfortunately, I did not have a college degree so I thought my dream to become a Christian Counselor was just dream. Additionally, I had health issues and I could not attend classes. However, seven years later I obtained a bachelor’s degree from Roberts Wesleyan College in the spring of 2012. As a result, in the fall, I begin searching for a graduate program. My plan was to enroll in an online graduate program at Roberts. However, God had a different plan. While researching the different online programs, I received a flyer from Northeastern Seminary. Thankfully, I was accepted at NES for the 2013 spring semester. Although I could have obtained a counseling certification with any Master’s degree, I believe true Christian Counseling would be more effective with the proper Christian foundation. Gratefully, I am working God’s plan for my life and God knew that I needed a program where I could obtain a solid Christian

My first goal after I graduate from Honokaa High School is to go to community college. I am planing on getting my AA in Counseling or Sociology or transferring into a four-year university to get my Bachelor’s degree. With a Sociology degree I would like to enter into Social Work or be a Career Counselor. With a Counseling degree I would like to pursue Marriage and Family Counselor or a career in Conflict Resolution. These degrees, while they are similar, fall into different aspects of helping out people. Counseling is mainly one-on-one and sometimes with a couple. Sociology is more about how groups of people function. I would like to get a degree in either of these subjects because they both can help me get a job helping people, which is