So, my therapist just suggested that my issues run too deep to ever successfully treat clients. That under times of stress (finals, assignments due) it will become apparent to my professors, and maybe I should look into becoming a lifecoach, because they have no governing board, and it only costs $2000 for training versus $50,000 for a masters program.

And that I will run into difficulty repeatedly in finding a practicum placement (not to mention a job) with my criminal record. (Hit and run, petty theft)

That when she was a Professor and a student was unplaceable for reasons of personality/bad interviews, the students got placed at the schools mental health center bc no one else would hire them, and that I might face a similar reality, because if there are 50 other applicants and none of them have a criminal record, why would they hire me?

(She doesn't know I'm in school, and that I have the highest grade in all my classes) I didn't tell her bc she says things like this to me that are very disheartening. She's been discouraging me from going to get my masters for a year and a half, suggesting I get a job where I do paperwork so that I don't have to interact with people bc I have "personality issues." But other people in my real life don't see me like that.

I feel really discouraged and like dropping out of my program.

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