Personal Statement – Online Counseling Program
My passion for helping people is what inspired me to choose to study counseling. My main goal is to help people make logical choices and think in more rational ways. I want to be there for people as a tool to use to better themselves. What enthuses me the most about counseling is the idea of being able to positively influence someone going through a tough time by guiding them to make choices that will enhance the quality of their life. I am a great listener and empathetic towards others, which I am confident will contribute to my being an excellent counselor. I also find much satisfaction and pleasure in helping make a difference. I believe that getting into this program will allow me to learn more about this field and equip me with the necessary skills to professionally be of assistance to others.
My short-term career goal is to become a mental health counselor in private practice in New Jersey. I want to use this as a platform for me to learn from counselors with more experience than I so I can better my career and build on the skills acquired in college. There, I can take the first step in my career and will finally be able to help someone the way that some people have helped me.
My long-term career goal is to set up my practice to offer my services as a counselor. I also aspire to have a Youth Centre where I can work with young people, especially teens. My objective for this is to provide a safe space for them to put the advice I give into practical use by allowing them to perform stress-relieving activities like sports, music, and art.
I love art and particularly enjoy photography. I love being a part of something visual to which I can connect. I see it as a tool to express my feelings and capture fleeting moments by immortalizing them in a photo.
Teens go through so much in their lives, from the smallest amount of doubt to a big family crisis. Rising cases of suicide among the youth today warrants for action to be taken, and I believe counseling is a great way to offer help. I, too, struggle a lot with my mental health, and there have been amazing people on my journey that helped me, and I want to be the person to change someone’s life. I went through my life, struggling with learning disabilities, and finding something that interests me. I had a hard time learning certain things; most things that everyone around me was too lazy to try and figure out ways to help me learn and make me feel like I can do anything. I didn’t realize that I was capable of learning well until I got to college and started to receive fantastic grades. I longed to have someone on my resource team in high school to help me accomplish more than I knew I could. I desired that someone other than my parents believed in me and helped me.
My experience motivates me to want to learn how I can help teens become the best version of themselves. As a counselor, I can be that someone who wasn’t there for me, for someone else. I genuinely feel that I have real zeal to learn more, and I am excited to begin my studies.