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  1. Excellent, thank you so much! How should I narrow? Maybe I find some programs and look at overlap, and then focus on the ones that are the best fit and take a path forward? I think it is about the level or degree of functioning.
  2. I forgot to add that I am interested in therapy for software engineers, scrum masters, managers & directors. There is a large population of them, they make enough money to buy my services, and they are very stressed & they need help. I know because I've lived that life and managed the careers of those who needed help. This population will only continue to grow and as an insider of software for fifteen years a good majority are really struggling. I can't give to the software community by writing code or creating diagrams. I need to operate at the level of the human being.
  3. Thanks for the interesting discussion. I have an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder. I started weak but finished with 2.5 years of straight A's/deans list/etc. Summa Cum Laude. Phi Beta Kappa. Final GPA is 3.86. Psych GPA is 3.9. I took my general GREs just before COVID. 154 Verbal, 157 Quant, 4.0 Analytical Writing. Quite unremarkable. I was flying for career and my last undergrad math class was Statistics (which I got an A in) but that was 7 years ago. I graduated 6 years ago. I wrote an undergraduate thesis (35 pages?) in social psychology / gender. It was published and it is actually getting cited. I also have a field placement internship at a homeless and runaway youth shelter. I transitioned to an employment position at the end. It was about 6 months. I left to make more money, $13/hr was not cutting it when I don't have family. Today, I am a software architect looking to put it rest. I created & currently lead a community philosophy club, which is actually an intimacy & friendship group in disguise. However the past 6 years were rising in software to the director level. I am interested in clinical practice grounded in a strong research foundation. I'd like the freedom to teach, especially if I could teach new therapists someday. I am changing careers at 33, this one is meant to be "until the end" so I want to make the additional time (and cost?) sacrifice to get the PhD. I strongly see myself working with the public. In software I directed in a large organization and also opened my own business. I'd like to be at PhD level to be a subject matter expert as I see the theoretical pinnings of psychology quite useful if not a pure requirements if I were to help operate or build my own clinic. I like the clinical focus of clinical psychology. I am open to those programs. I have a slight preference for counseling psychology. Many people have different interpretations, but I get the gestalt that clinical psychologists are more likely to appear in hospitals, critical treatment centers, etc. as psychometric evaluators, emergency staff, or tending to severe psychological conditions like psychosis, etc. Of course this is not a hard-set rule. I have gathered that counseling psychology is more about supporting individuals be healthy and transition through normal life events, like grief, university, vocation, etc. I would like to start my journey out of school by mostly seeing patients and supporting them, especially if long-term care and stable relationship is needed for their improvement. I am interested in working with suicidal youth & adults, drug and alcohol abuse, sobriety maintenance, dysfunction or distress from sexual behaviors, bipolar, borderline, trauma survivors, male eating disorders, etc. I know that is broad but I could see myself doing any of these. I am not as interested in psychosis, schizophrenia, cognitive impairment, offenders, social justice issues, etc. Sorry "etc." doesn't mean anything but I use it anyway. I am looking at faculty members and reading papers they publish to prepare. I understand the relationship and dynamic. This is about creating original research and contribution together under their lead. We need to both be in it together. Finally I have 3 cats and no kids. It's too cold here in Michigan. I have no roots. My lease is up in March. I'm currently on a road trip through Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis, Asheville, Charlotte, and more of North Carolina. I am interested in these states as the universities have many in-state options for PhDs in Counseling/Clinical (I'm thinking of out of state tuition), along with affordable stand-alone dwellings for housing. I would like to be in a stand alone dwelling as I operate a pro audio studio on the weekends. It is warmer down here & I have a side interest of music and enjoy an interplay between liberal/conservative dynamics. Nashville is amazing but the public university requires a masters which I don't have and Vanderbilt sounds a little too research-heavy (and I am worried about the finances of a private institution). I have been on my own for over a decade so I need to do this and pay my bills. Nobody's going to pay them for me, and when I get out of school, my debt is owned.
  4. Hi. I am 33 years old, former director of software engineering. I'm making a career change :) I am looking at all PhD programs in Counseling, Clinical and Marriage and Family Therapy. I have just my undergraduate degree and some schools require a Masters but it seems less common as many provide both Masters/Doctorates. For example I dropped Tennessee State counseling. Here's my list of interesting programs. Can you help me spot missing schools/programs? University of Tennessee Knoxville Clinical Psychology Counseling (advocacy model) East Tennessee State University Johnson City Clinical Psychology University of Memphis Clinical Counseling Need to verify if they take undergraduates Vanderbilt Nashville PhD Psychology Sciences Clinical Need to verify finances Thank you so much
  5. Hi, I have my life story as it pertains to graduate school typed up with some questions. I am trying to figure out where somebody goes with this document to get some support. Do I post it here, or in the Psychology forum? I'm new here and not sure where the best place is to put a "qualitative analysis" of my situation, either here or elsewhere. Thank you.
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