become a therapist

Has always appealed to me. After years of battling social anxiety, depression and mild eating disorders i am fascinated with how these things develop and how they are treated. I would love to work with people and try and help them overcome these problems. It would be amazing to go home knowing that i am making a difference.

throughout growing up, people have talked to me. most of them people I don’t or barely knew.
They say I have a sense of calm and am very easy to talk with.
I’ve lost a friend of mine. someone I couldn’t help and I regret everyday when I think about it…
What could I have said to make him feel better or change his thinking on life. hes the one I didn’t know what to say to.
I really want to help people, and I love helping people.

I just hate the times I can’t….
I want to right my wrong and help as many more as I can.
and being from abuse… I can relate to many people.
I just hope in the future I will know what to say and when so I do not lose another.

It makes my heart hurt knowing I could have done more if only I had… known what to say.
If hes out there I wish him the best, but I know hes dead.
either from suicide or a gun fight.
I just didn’t know how to help him…
I keep in touch with a lot of people I’ve talked with. they have helped me and in some ways I know I’ve helped them.
people of a lot of different age groups too have talked to me… I am only 17, and when a 32 year old speaks to me, it makes me feel like I am an adult and my opinion matters, He said he feels like he could just hug me like I knew everything he was going through and would understand.

but I failed. I tried and prayed but I just didn’t know enough…

I need to make things right and reach out, be a better person and move on from my own nightmarish past.
Someday, I’ll find someone like that again. and I wont fail to help them.

Its possible that I’m halfway through my qualification. Just need a little more professional development :-)

I think I’m doing the right things, but its hard to know the career path in the UK. Anyone have any ideas?

I am leaning towards becoming a therapist after high school.

that this is an actual goal. Something related to this will probably be a goal down the line, but not for now…

i don’t want to get a psychology degree, nor do i care if insurance will pay for people to come to me. i would not be in it for the money. the only thing is i don’t know if you can be a counselor without training from some kind of accredited institution. just open your own practice? don’t you have to have some kind of license? maybe someone has some thoughts about this?

After entering High School I wanted to become a therapist. I was the unofficial therapist for my friends and their friends because I had been through many similar problems. Now all I need is the schooling to become a real therapist, which is what I want to do. I want to help people through their problems. I want to be the person they can call at any time, day or night, to help them.

I’ve decided to pursue a career in acupuncture instead!

I remember whe i was young i was the person that if friends were in fights i wouldnt pick either side instead i would take tim out of recess to run bck and forth between groups and figure out what was going on i always figured it out in the end i wass also always the girl that the “new girl” would turn to to be her first friend i have never let anyone wear a frown on their face and when they do i always find out why!! i am a very big people person and always have been i think outside of the box and i dont judge people even if they judge me first
like i said i have always solved the fights and never gotten in them
but now that i am in highschool its more physical fights than arguments so its way harder for me to “show off my skillz(lol)” :( :)
but that is why i am so sure about being a childrens therapist