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

  Hi everyone We have the pleasure of a second blog post this month. Dr Selone Ajewole shares her reflections on the journey to becoming an Educational and Child Psychologist. Selone speaks about the role of faith and perseverance through challenging times, and draws on her own experiences to inform her practice and guide any future plans.  Hello all My name is Dr Selone Ajewole and I work as an Educational and Child Psychologist for a local authority in London as well as an Integrative Psychotherapist in private practice. My journey to this stage has been anything but linear, involving peaks and troughs still ultimately all leading me to the actualisation of these two roles of servitude. After growing up in a community deprived of examples of academic excellence or “good success” I was sent to a predominantly White affluent secondary school in the hopes that it would change the potentially mediocre trajectory of my life. Unfortunately my secondary school experience was rife w...

 Hi everyone Here is our next blog post. Today we are learning from Caomhán McGlinchey, Educational Psychologist. Caomhán talks openly about his own experiences which have helped form him into the practitioner Psychologist he is today. He reminds us of the importance of really connecting to our clients and their experiences, to guide us as Psychologists, in any intervention we may suggest. We hope you will find his blog entry an inspiration and perhaps one that could fuel your own interest in a career in Psychology.  I never watched The Wire. Apparently, it’s amazing, and “right up my street”. But I never watched it. I have a DVD box set (remember those?) of the first series in the back of my car right now because I never took it into the house when my friend lent it to me. But we’ll get back to that... For me, working in mental health is as much about the principles you learn through practice as it is about the things you learn in books and classrooms. Like most mental health...