Okay folks, so one of the things I am doing now is making up for not finishing my entire Ph.D in clinical psychology and taking the 3 classes I need to get licensed as a mental health counselor. I bitched and moaned about this and drank over it for 13 years...."woe is me...I had to drop out of grad school cuz of my depression....coming out of the closet...blah blah such a victim..poor me, poor me, pour me another drink" So 1 class down and 2 to go. Yeah, being sober does allow me to accomplish the things I was meant to and to become the person I should have been all along.
That class is over now and I got an A in it. Yay! It was "Human Sexuality."
P.S. - The next class is substance abuse counseling. How ironic. I laughed when the licensure board said 2 classes I needed were substance abuse and human sexuality. I was like "WTF! Life experience doesn't count!?"
Oh yeah...and get this....One assignment is that I have to go to a 12 step meeting. LOL
-- Edited by pinkchip on Sunday 28th of August 2011 10:31:44 AM
-- Edited by pinkchip on Sunday 28th of August 2011 10:33:36 AM
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Good work Mark,we are coming down Tuesday(30th) now,supposed to be Saturday(27th )but flights were cancelled cause of Hurricane and we rebooked.I'll give you a shout when I get in Deerfield and maybe we can make a meeting together..Jimi sang"Keep on pushin,straight ahead" off Dolly Dagger album.....do it to it ,way to go............you should get an 'A; also in 12 step program huh!!!! :)
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So, it will soon be Dr. Pinkchip. Wow! what an absolutely amazing achievement. I really admire people who have the discipline required to attain such a qualification. Well done. MikeH.
It won't be Dr. - I stopped right at the point when I had finished my doctoral coursework and passed my comps. I still had a dissertation and internship to go. I cannot go back and finish. I looked into that. I didn't pay for 1 credit every year to be on a leave of absense. Also, the clock for finishing your dissertation after becoming a doctoral candidate (which happens when your pass comps) is 5 years. It has been like 13 years since I passed my comps.
So...the 3 classes are what I have to take to become licensed as a master's level counselor....basically the same as an MSW licensure but it will be LMHC (licensed mental health counselor). I was able to achieve 90 percent of the requirements off the bat because the work I did in the clnical psych program was like 2 x what it would have been in a master's in counseling program. Unfortunately it did not overlap fully. Hence, the 3 classes.
Yall can call me Doctor though. I'll just do a 10th step every night regarding my dishonesty in accepting that label lol.
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