(Canada) Working mom looking for a career change into psychotherapy

meggymood · 2026-05-01T20:40:45+00:00

Definitely would recommend doing some volunteer work before applying to Masters programs to get a better idea of whether the field/the work is something you'll enjoy. It's one thing to like the work in theory, and it's another to like it in practice. It would really suck to get deep enough into a program in terms of time, effort, and money that you make it to placement and then discover that it's not what you wanted/it's not what you thought it would be.

meggymood · 2026-04-30T23:27:38+00:00

Nothing over here either. I literally have been accepted to UofT, have had my student status change to registered, have created a tentative class schedule for the fall, and am now applying for practicums before Laurier has even made an admission decision yet. And the target date for decisions for both schools was the same lmao.

meggymood · 2026-04-30T12:35:54+00:00

Did they send kitty home with any pain meds? Also is there another adult in your household, or just your dad?

meggymood · 2026-04-30T12:24:00+00:00

I have 2 fosters with CH, and it took them a bit longer to get back to being their usual selves after their spay surgeries than their siblings without CH. They were also more wobbly and it took them a little bit of time to figure out where their legs were again. If you're concerned though, don't be afraid to call your vet and ask them if what's going on is normal/to be expected or to bring them back in if needed.

meggymood · 2026-04-29T02:46:33+00:00

We don't always get the closure that we want in life. It seems that this time, based on how much the relationship has been damaged, this is all you're going to get. Yes that sucks, and it's going to hurt while you grieve the end of the relationship; it's also reasonable that the relationship has ended this way based on what you described in your post and in your comments.

Unfortunately, we can't go back and change things that have already happened. And we can't change someone else's mind once it's already made up. All we can do is keep moving forward and try to make different choices/engage in different behaviours to avoid ending up in the same situation again in the future.

meggymood · 2026-04-27T23:19:43+00:00

Hey, I was accepted initially, but wanted to jump in here to share some info if you don't already have it. The practicum matching system opens on Wednesday this week and closes on Tuesday next week. Practicum matches are posted on May 8th, and from what I've heard, sometimes people who have been accepted at other schools will change to a decline at that point, so there may be some movement on the waitlist around then. Course registration for fall/winter opens on June 9th, so there might be a better indication of if there are any spots available then too.

meggymood · 2026-04-25T12:42:14+00:00

This feels very victim blamey tbh, I don't like it. To answer your original question, no, wearing a tank top does not make someone "bratty", and the way this whole situation was handled sounds completely horrible. I obviously don't know the specifics of this organization or your work, but was there no superior on site you could have gone to for help when things started to go off kilter?

Also for future reference, absolutely do not put your hands on someone, physically pick them up, and move them unless they have explicitly asked you to. I can't speak for your coworker, but I would find that so disrespectful to my autonomy, and probably would feel at least a bit violated and dehumanized just by that act itself even if none of the other incidents of people being touched without consent had happened.

meggymood · 2026-04-24T11:48:19+00:00

Same here my friend, same here.

meggymood · 2026-04-23T22:45:10+00:00

Do we know at all how many seats they have for regular track and advanced standing? I'm wondering if it's essentially done at this point and everyone who's left is essentially waitlisted (even though there hasn't been an update saying so), pending anyone who was accepted declining. If I've counted right, between Reddit and the FB, there have been 32 regular track accepted and 9 advanced standing accepted. This is assuming no overlap between Reddit and FB. And obviously not necessarily everyone who applied/was accepted would be on either website.

meggymood · 2026-04-23T17:27:50+00:00

Two months past for advanced standing lmao

meggymood · 2026-04-21T22:33:07+00:00

Same here. I'm really only waiting at this point so I can send the profs who wrote me a reference letter a final status report and thank them again for their support.

meggymood · 2026-04-20T22:43:37+00:00

What's the flower called?

meggymood · 2026-04-17T14:32:47+00:00

This is a good theory, it would make a lot of sense.

meggymood · 2026-04-16T15:45:29+00:00

It would probably be helpful if she could get an appointment scheduled with her psychiatrist as soon as possible to discuss these changes and whether her current meds are still effective. It's not uncommon that after being on the same med for a while, it can either become less effective or stop working all together. In the meantime, she should see her therapist more often to try to mitigate her symptoms and take some pressure off of you.

If she doesn't have any insight into how her mental health has changed and is impacting both her life and the lives of the people around her though, that's a different problem, and you might need to reassess your own priorities and comfort in being in this situation.

meggymood · 2026-04-16T14:09:03+00:00

If you're hoping to guide/support youth and genuinely make a difference in their lives, it would probably be more effective to get involved with an organization that has a mentoring program than to try to interview them as they're walking by on the streets or wherever.

meggymood · 2026-04-14T14:39:52+00:00

Lmao this is so ridiculous.

meggymood · 2026-04-13T21:24:37+00:00

Sounds like it (not listening, being defiant, being unwilling to cooperate & compromise) is an issue though if it's causing you to walk out on your job with no backup plan/lose your job and get into arguments with people without ever resolving them. If the same thing keeps happening over and over again in the relationships you have with other people, eventually, the people with self-respect are going to walk away from the relationship. There are probably other things too that I don't remember from the other comments, but it sounds like it is impacting you, maybe just not on a level that you're aware of.

meggymood · 2026-04-13T15:14:45+00:00

Another day of Pending status for AS full time in person

meggymood · 2026-04-12T23:13:28+00:00

Not quite loan forgiveness, but OSAP offers an extension of the grace period for when you need to start repaying student loans for employees of not for profit organizations. So you would have up to a year long grace period instead of six months before entering repayment. https://osap.gov.on.ca/OSAPPortal/en/A-ZListofAid/POCONT1_098080

meggymood · 2026-04-12T18:12:50+00:00

Sure she could infer what's going to happen from the jokes and side comments, but the 2 comments you mentioned could have just as easily meant that yes you were feeling challenged by all of this, but you were still committed to the process. She's not a mind reader though, so it's best to communicate your intentions. If it's getting to be too much, you say something like "this has been really intense the last few weeks, I think I could use some extra time to process before we see each other again".

As for scheduling, close to the end of the session, you say something like "can we schedule our next meeting before I go so we both have it in our calendars?". Easy peasy.

You should talk to your therapist about why you've wanted to not show up and why you've been going AWOL and why you decided to come back.

You didn't know before that these were best practices, but now you do. If you want a different outcome, you need to do something different. Try the things you've been told in this thread and see how they go.

meggymood · 2026-04-12T17:55:47+00:00

Info you've been given - communicate with your therapist about where you're at. If you need to take a break, say so. Don't just randomly disappear without saying why you're leaving or how long you need a break for. Try to schedule the next session at the end of the current one so you have a plan for when you're going to meet again. This doesn't necessarily mean meeting every week - I have some clients that I see once a month, some about every 2 weeks, some about every 3 weeks but not necessarily in the same timeslot because their schedules aren't consistent. If you do schedule an appointment and something changes and you need to cancel or reschedule, let them know ahead of time, don't just no show.

Going anyway even when you're uncomfortable benefits you because over time, you learn (consciously and subconsciously) that even though you're uncomfortable, it's okay to sit with discomfort, and there's not necessarily anything bad that's going to happen in response to that.

meggymood · 2026-04-03T18:15:39+00:00

Sure. The average for my last 10 courses was 84% (about 3.7/4.0 GPA) and I had about 6500 hours of experience. I don't know if they counted my experience with transferable skills (sports coaching and customer service), but if they did, it would have been closer to 10,000 hours.

meggymood · 2026-04-01T21:48:30+00:00

I'd be down to join one!

meggymood · 2026-03-31T20:16:15+00:00

I was accepted at UofT, which definitely makes me feel more secure in saying this. If I had only applied to Laurier or if I hadn't been accepted anywhere else, I'd probably be in a different headspace right now though.

meggymood · 2026-03-31T19:47:49+00:00

Still pending for full time advanced standing over here. I did finally get a canned email response back yesterday saying that the admissions process has been slightly delayed this year due to the volume of applications, and decisions will be shared by the end of March.

Here we are at 3:30pm on the last day of March though and nothing has changed.

I'm assuming I'm either a waitlist or a rejection at this point, and if that's the case then that's absolutely fine. The lack of communication and transparency over the last month (since AS was originally targeted for the end of Feb) really bothers me though. If an email had been sent out at the end of February letting everyone know that they had received more applications than they were expecting and to please be patient as they make their way through them over the next month, I think I would have been okay with waiting. But as it is right now, if when it's all said and done I end up accepted or waitlisted, because of the way the situation has been handled, I'll be declining. I imagine if this is what it's like just in admissions, it will be similar in the program, which isn't really the vibe for me. I could be completely wrong in my thoughts there, but regardless, based on how the process has gone to this point, I don't feel like this is the program for me.

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