Pathways to Psychology, a journey with many possibilities at your fingertips

 Hi everyone Welcome to the next installment of the blog. Today we learn about Jun and her journey towards becoming a qualified Educational- and Child Psychologist. Jun has not only had to learn about different systems and models, but had seen a variety of settings and experiences to bring together her wealth of knowledge. We hope you will find Jun's journey as inspirational as we have. Hui Jun Ho Trainee Educational Psychologist  linkedin.com/in/huijunho I am about to qualify as an Educational and Child Psychologist in 5 months. Looking back on my journey, my first steps started when I was a bright-eyed seventeen-year old, where I took my first foray into education as a piano teacher, teaching on Sundays while taking my A- levels. I remember my first ever student was a three-year-old girl, whom I spent hours trying to teach her how to tell her left hand and right hand apart. After my A levels, I bravely became a teaching intern, teaching fine art at an all boys’ secondary sch...

 Hello everyone Here is another installment focusing on the excellent Applied psychology colleagues out there. Today we learn more about Annabel Stenning, trainee Educational Psychologist. She tells a story of perseverance, patience and commitment, all leading her closer to her goal to being a qualified Educational Psychologist.  Trainee Educational Psychologist , University College London Annabel Stenning https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabel-stenning-mbpss-457b43161 My voyage into Psychology actually began with my love of literature; as a teenager I really enjoyed reading and going to the theatre and English was always my favourite lesson. I liked how you could explore the perspectives of different characters, analyse their actions and understand their behaviours, emotions and experiences. I had a fantastic English GCSE teacher who taught us ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding and made links to infamous studies in Psychology such as Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment....

HI there and welcome to our next blog entry. Today we learn from Hana Nasser, Sport and Exercise Psychologist in Training (SEPiT). Hana talks about the process of planning and the extensive time and commitment involved in pursuing this particular career path. She also shares lots of useful advice and suggestions, which may help any aspirant Psychologists out there interested in this field of Psychology. We hope Hana's journey could potentially inspire your own! Hello everyone,  My name is Hana, I’m a Sport and Exercise Psychologist in training. I’m not a blog writer, however, I am excited to be sharing my journey with you, so bear with me and hopefully I'll make some sense. I took Psychology at A-Level, and it was clear after my AS-Levels that it was not the subject I was best at, but I absolutely loved it. All the different elements, the variety of information and I was just fascinated at human Psychology.  Someone once said to me, ‘do what you enjoy, not necessarily what you...