Mental Health Counselor

I'm not a counselor yet. I am what is called a residential mentor, which means that I work in a residential treatment center, and I go there and basically live life with the teens that are in my treatment center. So, kind of a typical day. I usually get there right when they're coming home from school. They go to school at the treatment center, and I'm helping them do homework. I attend group therapy with them. A lot of times, like, you know, a group of living together, drama, things come up, or, you know, they are doing hard things in therapy, and they need help processing or kind of talking through what's going on. And so, I just kind of sit and talk with them and encourage them to apply the things that they're learning in therapy into their daily life. So, I'm in communication with their therapist, knowing, like, what they're working on, as well as, like, we do fun things. You know, we have activities. I take them on hikes. I take them to basketball games, you know, to go get ice cream, like, just kind of living life with them, and it's the best.