Masters Portfolio

Masters Portfolio

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...
Graduate Summative

Graduate Summative

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,...
Expressive Therapies

Expressive Therapies

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...
Counselling Interventions

Counselling Interventions

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...
Practicum in Counselling

Practicum in Counselling

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...
Group Counselling

Group Counselling

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...