Full Circle

Today, I officially became fully licensed as a Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia.

It’s strange how clean that sentence sounds compared to the road behind it. This journey truly restarted in August of 2020, after I lost my business. I didn’t know it then, but I needed that loss. I had stepped away from psychology back in 2005, yet counseling never really left me. Every business I built, every leadership role I held, my clinical brain kept showing up. I could try to outrun it, but I couldn’t outgrow it.

So I went back.

Graduate school. Internships. Thousands of hours. Setbacks. Delays. More perseverance than I ever planned on developing. And today, all of it converged into full licensure.

I feel deeply grateful. Relieved. Proud. Humbled. And yes, absolutely exhausted. But this milestone matters. Not just for the letters after my name, but for what they represent: obedience to a calling that never really let go of me, even when I tried to set it down.

To those who have walked alongside me, trusted me, challenged me, and believed in this work-thank you.

And now… I’m going to take a very well-earned nap.