Saints be praised!!

It took five months, but I finally have some happy news to report! At long last, the state of Utah has finally granted me a license! I have been given the license of certified professional counselor extern. This means I can finally get a job and start seeing clients again. There are many more hurdles to jump before I'm a big girl with a full license, but this is the very important first step that has been hanging over my head and causing me great stress for months now. I thought since my program at MNU was so good, it would be easy to just transfer it all over to Utah. I thought wrong. I had to wait three months to meet in front of the board, which was a disaster, then use my powers of manipulation and critical thinking to get the director to see it my way. Then I had to keep harassing the director to keep focused and get the job done! 

So, next week I'm looking forward to a three day training to receive my certificate in domestic violence counseling, which will be helpful in applying for jobs. I already have a few jobs I'm looking at, and have started applying for. We'll see how long this next stage takes! I have a few extra courses that I have to take to get bumped up to the next level of licensure, a CPC intern. Then I begin accumulating 4000 hours, take the National Counselor's Exam, a Utah Ethics exam, and a clinical exam. But I have three-four years to do all that. The most important thing is that I have this license, and I can finally start putting that Master's degree to work. 

I'm so psyched! 

This is me artfully expressing the way that I juggled Griffin and my education.