My Job As A Mental Therapist!
By: Kylie Davis
The reason I chose my Career.
My name is Kylie Davis, i'm a 7th grade student at E. Lawson Brown Middle School. The reason why I chose mental therapy is, because I would like helping people with their disabilitys, their problems at home or if they social problems like at school. I think this would be a intresting career. I would probably never get bored! Im okay with the salary because I now ! would enjoy the job.
The Kind of People I want to help!
A child with Autism
I would like to work with children with differnt disability's like this little girl with Autism. I know this child was born this way, but that's okay their human to so i would like to help the best i possibly could!
A dissabled Child
I'm not sure what happened to this little girl, but I would like to find out. I would try to build her self-esteam as high as I could to help her feel as normal as possible.
A man with Down Syndrom
I've been wanting to work with people that have down syndrom, because one of my closest friends mother was going to have a baby but they found out it had down syndrom. It died before it was born.
High School Classes I Should Take.
To be in mental health/mental therapy I should take peer behavior, it teaches you human behaviors and their actions. I think this class would really benefit me for the future.
The things I need in order to be a mental therapist
in order for me to be a Mental Therapist I will need my master's in in counseling or marriage and family therapy. I'm supervised to have 2,000 to 4,000 hours of clinical experience.
Skills needed:
-compassion
-listening skills
-organization
-people skills
-speaking skills
Skills needed:
-compassion
-listening skills
-organization
-people skills
-speaking skills
Cost of College.
I would have to pay $75,000 for 6 years of going to a community college like DCCC. After I get out of college my monthly loan payment would be $665.76 a month for 15 years.
After College!
After college I want to try to open up my own therapy loft for the disabled. I'm not exactly sure about marriage yet. I think with my job and after all the classes I want have time to have children of my own. I would like to live in a busy city without a lot of business's like mine.
My salary!
As a mental therapist I would make $39,710 a year and $19,09 an hour at the least, the highest paid mental therapist makes $63,000 a year. I want to try to make the highest after i go to school for so long.