What was your path to becoming a therapist?

Social work is my first career and I always knew I wanted to be in the realm of healing and gain a better understanding of human behavior. The more I engaged in this work, the more my curiosity for "all things life" grew, which led me to psychoanalysis. I knew there was a greater understanding of self and psychoanalysis provides that insight, allowing us to tap into the unconscious (which, I believe, drives us as the adults we are today). I also wanted to destigmatize beliefs around mental health and the engagement in therapy within my communities of BIPOC and LatinX. As a Haitian-American woman, my worldview has been created so that I notice the lack of education in mental health and the deprioritization of it, which has led to generational suffering. I want to be an individual who takes part in the healing of generational burdens.