happynonsense

Haha thanks for your advice! It does give some relief. How do I find these informal internships or shadowing opportunities in the mental health field? I live off campus and don't have a car and trying to save money (other than depending on parents), so I feel like I'm limited in terms of where I go.

**I wasn't sure which forum this would fall under, so please bear with me:)** I'm a third year student and my GPA is pretty low right now...2.5-2.9 approx. I took a bunch of classes that I wanted to try out to see what I wanted to do (since I wasn't sure what I wanted to do in the future), which brought down my GPA a lot. I just recently declared myself a psychology major and after a lot of thinking about my future, I've decided I want to go into mental health counseling. I want to apply to grad school for mental health counseling. I wanted to apply for internships for this summer but with my low GPA, I don't think there are any internships I will be eligible to apply for. A lot of the ones I've looked for require at least 3.0 GPA. I'm not sure what to do now? Should I wait to apply for internships when I get better grades and my GPA gets better? How can I be a better applicant to get into grad school for mental health counseling? Any advice would be appreciated!