ABOUT WELLSESSION

I didn't set out to become a therapist by accident. I fought my way here. I started out studying forensic science, chasing a different kind of curiosity about people. But somewhere in those courses, I fell in love with psychology instead, the question of why people do what they do, and how to help them change it. That was the moment I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

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Then I learned the path to becoming a therapist was going to be long and challenging given my circumstances at the time. It would have been easy to let that scare me off, but I believed in myself, even when it meant taking the harder road to get there. Still, I tried to accept alternatives, safer, more practical options. I took a job in marketing at a car dealership, with hopes of moving into HR since I had a psychology degree behind me. Instead, I was told to use that degree to study consumer behaviour for advertising purposes, to sell, not to help. No matter how many alternatives I tried, I kept finding my way back to the same pull: therapy was where I was supposed to be.

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So I made a move nobody was rooting for: I left marketing behind and took a job as an intake coordinator at a therapy clinic. I answered phones, connecting people with therapists. It looked like a step backwards to everyone watching from the outside. To me, it was the closest I'd been to the thing I actually wanted, and it lit something back up. That's when I stopped listening to the doubt and pursued my Master's degree. I graduated with honours, and jumped right in. 

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A few years into practising, I truly grew into the therapist I am today. I didn't get here because the path was clear or because people believed in me early on. I got here because I refused to let anyone else's doubt become my ceiling.