I am in the process of winding down my academic work and training for a new career as a therapist. In September 2020 I started an MA training program at DePaul in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
My goal after I am licensed is to offer mental health counseling tailored to academics. I hope to work with people at all stages in their careers: from graduate students dealing with loneliness and depression in the field, non-tenured and adjunct professors struggling with economic hardship and professional isolation, to the burnout faced by, well, everyone!
With new developments in video-conference therapy, I also anticipate offering one-on-one therapy for individuals during fieldwork abroad. Additionally, I will be developing workshops for pre- and post-field graduate students, as a way to help researchers who struggle with depression or experience abuse during the field. My goal is to establish a ‘package’ of multi-day in-person workshops that a department can offer to their students or faculty.
I see this move as a continuation of my anthropological research and teaching to date. My intention is to take what I have learnt over the last two decades studying inequalities within academic communities, and use it to help individual graduate students and academics flourish and survive.
