(emotional orchestral music)
Omar Fawzy - Sitting down with
an individual who
is not judging you,
who is meeting you
where you're at,
who is empathic to
your needs, your wants,
and your feelings and
understands that sometimes
the best therapy in the
world is just to be heard.
We need someone to remind
us of our resilience,
and reminds us of how
strong we really can be,
and when we're weak, provide us
with tools to make
us strong once again.
Dr. Nealon-Woods - We are dedicated to
preparing our students
for their careers in psychology
and behavioral health sciences.
Omar - When you look at
counseling and you look
at what counseling is, you
have to take into consideration
that these people come from
a different background.
And based on the
admissions statement
and the resources I've found
about The Chicago School,
it presented
the best fit for me
based on my own personal
philosophy and my understanding
of what the counseling
field looked like.
Rachel Whelan - You're being trained
by professionals
in the field who
are doing this work.
So they're providing
those skills,
but they're also
viewing us as people
who they're gonna work
with in the future.
Omar - The focus is a little
more intimate, so the access
you have to the faculty
and the access you have
to the student body
becomes a lot easier.
Dr. Nealon-Woods - We really focus our
efforts on campus,
in the community, and
internationally in raising
our students' attention to
working with underserved,
and underprivileged populations,
and with the diverse
communities that we serve.
Dr. Tobiasz - I do think it's
really beneficial
for students to have a
completely different experience,
whether it's one year
working with adults,
the next with children
or adolescents.
All the diversity factors
that may be involved
would be beneficial
with their own personal
and professional development.
Dr. Orson Morrison - The Chicago School of
Professional Psychology
is a place that
has well-connected
community partners
in terms of training
students in a practical way.
So taking the learning that's
occurring in the classroom
and then having sites where
students can apply that learning
in a world-class city.
Omar - They give
you the opportunity
to go out into the
community to experience
what people are
actually going through.
Dr. Tobiasz -  There's always
going to be a need
for individuals to
help other people out
from a mental
health perspective.
Rachel - I feel like
we all cross paths
for a certain reason.
And I feel like, being a
psychologist in the future,
that I'm gonna cross the
paths of very many people
who I'm meant to help out
at that particular time.
