A Personal Note From Becky
So you've just read my “professional” bio explaining who I am and what I have done, etc. However, I wanted to share how and why I got into helping high school and college students pick their college majors and why I am so passionate about helping young people get a direction for their future.
When I first began career counseling, my practice was primarily devoted to helping adults through mid-career transitions. Almost all of my referrals came from Family and Marriage Therapists who would call me and explain how they were working with couples whose marriages were in crisis. Invariably they would share that in addition to having a family and marriage crisis, the couple was also dealing with a career crisis.
A typical story would include a husband who had been an attorney, doctor, accountant, etc. for years and hated every minute of it. The stress he was experiencing on the job was being carried home and negatively affecting his wife and children. So, I would be called in to help this individual find another career field to transition into. Time and time again, I saw how devastating it was on a family when a spouse/parent was in a career field that didn’t take advantage of their natural talents.
All of the adults I counseled explained how they had picked their major while in college and just blindly pursued their path never taking into account what they enjoyed or what they were naturally good at doing.
I decided that if I could teach high school and college students the importance of considering their God-given design and assessing their natural talents before making a career choice, that maybe I could save these young people from going through their own career crisis when they hit their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.
As I began to devote more of my time to counseling with college students, I was stunned by the number of young people who told me they felt like failures because they couldn’t decide which college and career path to pursue. They described how they would try one major after another hoping to find the right fit. Unfortunately, they would often become discouraged as they bounced from one degree plan to the next. Many of the students I worked with had flunked out of college because their confusion had led to depression and an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. Quite often they would just quit trying. It broke my heart to hear bright young adults with so much to offer describe themselves as failures.
That’s when I decided to develop a step-by-step program to make it easy to navigate through the decision-making process of selecting a college major. My prayer is that I can help students discover, understand and appreciate their unique God-given design and find a path that fits who they are.