>> I think two things.
One would be that there's nothing like experience and I really think as important
as education is, that can't quite prepare you for the actually experience.
And so I always recommend that the best way as a young person or just somebody interested
in getting started in this field, I think an initial step would be to start volunteering.
The best place to volunteer is really
in in-patient treatment programs rather than outpatient settings.
So I really recommend to volunteer.
And then really the second step would be
to really consider educationally what direction they want to go in.
There's so many opportunities when it comes to the field
of counseling whether it's social work, psychology, counseling,
mental health, community focused.
I mean there's just so many different branches and so I would recommend
that a young person who's not quite clear on the direction they want to go in to really reach
out to different organizations and just ask to come in for 20 minutes, 30 minutes and talk
to the people who are actually doing the work.
And whatever's most attractive, that's probably going
to be a good hint to head in that direction.
>> And you guys would be open to somebody doing that, coming in here for 20 minutes and --
>> Do it all the time.
Yeah, we're always happy to do that.
Clinicians are always more than willing to share their experience and you know,
what they love about this field with anyone's who willing to listen.