Beginning Your Counseling Career

Bravo to Dr. Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson and all the contributors of Beginning Your Counseling Career. The authors take the reader on a comprehensive journey, from applying to graduate school to beginning private practice. This book is the much-needed road map for successfully navigating each step in the process of becoming a counselor while maintaining balance in one's life. It is a tool for reducing the anxiety inherent in the process, particularly for first generation students. This book is a gift, a guiding light to accompany future counselors and new professionals to the end of the academic tunnel and well into their professional careers. I wish this book had been available 30 years ago! It is definitely a must read for every counseling student. -- Kellie N. Kirksey, PhD, LPCC-S, holistic psychotherapist, The Cleveland Clinic Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine Beginning Your Counseling Career provides a framework for advanced undergraduates, beginning counseling students, and future counselor educators to appreciate and understand the process of professional identity development. This well-written edited book answers common student questions and covers a number of issues important in navigating a counselor training program. Each chapter is written by counselors and graduate students with practical experience in the credentialing process. Anyone interested in the counseling profession should begin with this book. -- Jacqueline Smith, EdD, program director and department chair, Regent University, Virginia; CACREP board member This is a much-needed book. Beginning Your Counseling Career provides students with valuable and useful information that will help them make informed decisions as a student, future practitioner, or counselor educator. -- Hank Harris, PhD, professor and departmental chair, Department of Counseling, University of North Carolina at Charlotte For those considering a professional counseling career, current graduate students, or early professionals, this book is an essential resource that allows individuals to take a broad view of their career while learning some tricks of the counseling trade. Dr. Mary Olufunmilayo Adekson has brought together noteworthy contributors to address the needs of all, including minority and international students. The book's discussions on the interests of those specializing in school counseling, mental health counseling, and those preparing for masters and doctoral studies bring out the best in the counseling profession. -- Michael D. Brubaker, PhD, associate professor and program coordinator, UC Counseling Program, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Beginning Your Counseling Career is a 'how to' book for potential students, including international students and students of color looking for guidance on how to navigate the graduate student process at the masters level and further their education at the doctoral level. This book will be of benefit to those who lack a mentor or need mentoring in the graduate process. -- Kimberly N. Frazier, PhD, associate professor, School of Allied Health Professions, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Department of Clinical Rehabilitation and Counseling It is challenging for anyone to begin a new career. We see many individuals transitioning from other careers to the counseling profession. Beginning Your Counseling Career will guide these individuals from earning an advanced degree to standing on their feet as a professional. I just wish I had this book when I started my journey as an international student years ago. -- Sunhee J. Eissenstat, PhD, lecturer, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling, Rutgers University, New Jersey