Jamila Omar

My goal career path is becoming a therapist. I am looking for experience to enter into a mental health/behavioral health career path. I am interested in how and why people think and act, learning about their trauma and what lead them to their current point. Mental health and behavioral health impacts everyone depending on their experiences and I want to develop the skill sets to help others.

Before Covid I’ve always wanted to go to college but I did not know what for. Psychology was always in my mind but I was not confident in taking the major because I had trouble with communication, talking to people, did not believe in myself and was very selective on who I tell my feelings to. So, I put that major to the side. During Covid I changed my mind about school I was not interested in it anymore. Before graduation I was already getting told by my high school teachers, my parents and other people were always talking to me about college because they knew I did not want to go so they were trying to change my mind. At some point they were pressuring me into and got into my head and that’s when I felt like a failure and kept putting myself down. One day I’ve talked to a lady that helped me she told I did not have to go to college I could go to training school it’s a better option so I applied to Northland Workforce Training Center and applied for Electrical Construction. I had no idea about any electrical things but I still went for it to make my parents happy even though it was not something I wanted to do. Even though that was not something I’ve wanted to do I was proud of myself because I took that step and went for it and told myself “it’s good to try out different things I might like it.” Before I even started school, I was already putting myself down because I kept on telling myself “I can’t do this” “I don’t think I’ll be able to do that” “what if I don’t like it” I was already having self-doubts. First day of school I was very nervous because it was a new and fresh start, first day went well as time went by I realized electrical construction was not a major that I’ve wanted to do. I gave it some thoughts before I changed my major because I felt like I was giving up on it too fast but then I told myself “this is something I don’t see myself doing in the future.” I’ve changed my whole mindset on how I think so I’m going for psychology major it always been something I’ve always want to do and confident in. I love helping people and talking about emotions.

Reading books
Drawing
Hanging with friends/family
Playing games
Journaling/ writing
Walking
Communicating