In the winter of 2015, I made the decision to end my career in the automotive industry and begin my journey to become a licensed professional counselor. In the car business, there exists a simple maxim, ‘the better I do, the worse you do.’ I was tired of living under that maxim, and believed that becoming a counselor would offer a new way to work, ‘the better I become at what I do, the more likely the better you will do.’
While I learned a lot by travelling weekly to Richmont (both experientially and academically), my most profound experience was the opportunity to co-facilitate three different story groups with by best friend in life, Justin Hitchcock. I look back now on my facilitation of those groups and think: first, was I qualified to be doing that, and second, that was possibly the best experience I had in all of my graduate education.
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