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

Hello everyone and welcome to the next instalment of the Pathways to Psychology blog. Today we hear from Dr Donna Stewart, Chartered Counselling Psychologist. Donna highlights how pursuing a career in Psychology may sometimes not seem the obvious choice, but if it resonated with you, it was well worth exploring.        Dr Donna Stewart Chartered              Counselling Psychologist I always say to others that I didn’t set out to become a psychologist, but I somehow ended up here!   In fact, I spent many years wondering what my purpose was and questioning, as many others do, what it is that I really wanted to do. I found school challenging for many reasons and went to a different school to all my friends, which led to feeling like an outsider. However, I left school with excellent GCSEs in English literature and language. I was also great at biological science and art, however I still didn’t really know what I ...