Hey everyone! Welcome to the newest addition to HappyCuppaJoe in a few years! Life got a little busy on me, but I’m back at it thanks to an assignment in my final class of my Masters degree. 😊 Within the Masters Highlights, you will find each course that I took as...

So here we are, the last class of our Masters degree! This is the class that we have to thank for these blog posts which have made for a meaningful trip down memory lane. (Check out the course outline here!) Looking back to where I was at the beginning of this degree,...

This was a very quick course that I took in the summer of 2024. It was offered as a six-day class which was great, but it also fell on one of the same days as another family wedding. Having exhausted all of my options, I made the painful choice to miss my...

In January of 2024 I was definitely not in the right head space to be taking a class above and beyond my full-time job. We had just experienced our third miscarriage a few weeks earlier, and I could feel myself changing for the worse. My overall attitude had gone from...

This was yet another one of my favorite courses, by this point I started to see that all of my favorites had been the hands on counselling classes, so I must have been headed in the right direction! I am lucky to have already been in a counselling position by this...

This was another one of my favorite classes, although it didn’t come without a ton of vulnerability. Once again I was able to learn a ton of new skills as a counsellor, and a lot about myself too. Although I didn’t quite realize the name of it at the time, I began to...

This course was super interesting to me and was my first introduction to Solution-Focused Therapies, a modality that I would soon begin using most often in my school counselling practice. We had the opportunity to work through many different theories and approaches in...

This course was a very hands-on learning experience that proved to be both extremely beneficial and eye-opening at the same time. During these three weekend classes, we would spend much of our time practicing our skills as counsellors on each other while others...

This was a class that I took in the summer, which was one of my favorite ways to take a class. I loved that I could focus all of my attention on it without having to worry about work, and it also gave me structure to my days which helped me stay in good routines. I...

This is a class that brings up a few regrets when I look back along my journey. I remember my feelings heading into this class as being nervous and intimidated, but I think this was because I was a natural worrier and so the idea of crossing an ethical or legal line...

This class was my first glimpse into how personalized our degree could actually be. I remember feeling super excited when I read the course syllabus as I could see that my time could be spent researching actual current issues that were relevant and of interest to me....

The main thing that I remember from this class had not much to do with educational issues and research themselves, but the writing process that we were taught. Thanks to Marion’s methodical system of essay writing, I came to love writing papers which would come in...