>> I actually started out at Georgia Southern in the engineering program, civil engineering.
My dad is an engineer and I had -- I was always really good at math and science.
Those things were really easy to me.
So I thought that I was going to go to college and become an engineer
and walk into the family business.
And I was in the engineering program for an entire quarter before I figured
out it was not what I wanted to do every day.
That was not a good fit for me.
So I changed into the psychology program, still not a hundred percent sure that's where I wanted
to be, but moved into that program, and experimented with lots of other things.
I experimented with Spanish, and math, and music, and lots of other things.
And finally just decided that psychology and counseling,
that was going to be what fit me the best.
So my
senior year, when I got advised, I think my advisor said,
"So what graduate program are you going into?"
And I was like, "What?
I have to do another degree?"
So then, that started the process of figuring out where I wanted
to get next, what was the next step.
So I went into school psychology, did a masters and a specialist degree in school psychology,
which you have to have to get credentialed.
And I worked in that for a couple of years and also decided that was not for me,
which was very frustrating after I had two graduate degrees in it.
But it was a lot more testing and assessment and meetings and things and I just knew
that that didn't fit where I wanted to be.
So then I left school psychology and worked in the mental health field
in a juvenile detention center for a few years and immediately fell in love with it.
So it's very validating that treatment and actually working hands-on
with people was where I wanted to be.