Grad School

I am half way through my Grad School Program at Azusa Pacific University and I have been in the process of searching for a Practicum Site to begin working on the 3000 hours that are needed for the MFT license. Whew....that's a lot of hours.

But it is sooooooooo exciting that my goal is getting closer and a future as an MFT in private practice is in sight; even if it is still a couple more years in the making.

My favorite classes have been Psychotherapy and Clinical Training. I like the hands on of our triad groups and practicing therapy on each other. We laugh and cry and help each other to be competent therapists. It's been some of the best therapy I have ever received and it's free.

Tonight I had my Addictions, Assessment and Intervention class and we watched a series from HBO called "Addiction- Why can't they just stop?" It was informative and heart wrenching but as I watched the addicts and listened to their stories I was deeply touched. No addict wants to stay an addict. They did not wake up one day and say, "I am going to be an addict"

I have been praying to see if this will be a specialty that I bring into my therapy practice. Some days I say yes and other days I say I’m not sure.  Most addicts are uneducated about the drugs they use and what they are ingesting. Heroin is cut with rat poison at times and cocaine is laced with baby laxative.

One of the therapists summed it up this way - "When you don't know, what you don't know, you're just kinda in it." Simple...yet profound!  I want to help them break the cycle and get out of it.

Well, I don't know a lot about Addictions but I am learning and I do want to know more and I am defiantly in it...for the long haul.

Goodnight dear sages...