Title: Suzanne Vitt
Class Yr: 1998
Title: Psychological Well being Clinician
Group Title: Baystate Counseling and Wellness Middle
1. In a single sentence, what does your job entail?
My job entails offering particular person remedy to adolescents and adults as we work in the direction of reaching their recognized targets and cut back symptomatology of their psychological well being signs.
2. What deliberate and unplanned occasions linked you to your business and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you be taught/determine it was a very good match for you?
On the time of commencement, I had a couple of concepts in thoughts of the place I assumed I could be headed profession sensible, however I wanted to have some precise job experiences to assist me slim down the place I wished to focus. After finding out overseas my junior 12 months, journey was very high of thoughts for me so my first job was for EF Academic Excursions in Cambridge which affords excursions to many alternative international locations to highschool college students and their academics. I loved the perks of journey that had been included as a part of the coaching and made some like-minded lifelong buddies on this expertise. After a few years there, nevertheless, I missed the work I had accomplished previously in additional human providers sort of labor and moved on. I then was a volunteer trainer via an Americorp program instructing middle-school at a really small non-public Catholic college for women in Dorchester for 2 years. That have made me notice my curiosity lied in working with folks individually and to have a look at root causes of issues. I bought very concerned about racism and its impression in my time dwelling and dealing in Dorchester, which led me to a Grasp’s in Social Work. As a social employee, I’ve labored in excessive colleges offering remedy, hospital emergency departments offering disaster analysis, a residential program for women, in addition to particular person remedy. I’ve loved the pliability of a social work diploma to work in a wide range of settings.
3. What had been you concerned in while you had been on campus?
Whereas on campus I volunteered for Abby’s Home and Mustard Seed. Throughout my junior 12 months overseas, I volunteered at a girls’s middle in Brighton, UK.
4. What was your main and the way did it have an effect on your profession choices?
I used to be an English main. I did contemplate for awhile instructing English at the highschool degree and even thought of entering into publishing, however in the end, my drive to work serving to others gained out, and I went for my MSW.
5. What are one or two abilities that you just developed at Holy Cross that you just use in your work?
I positively assume empathy for others is one thing that grew for me at HC particularly with all of the volunteering I did, and is one thing that I exploit on a regular basis in my work with shoppers. I used to be uncovered to loads of totally different folks in my volunteering expertise and in my time overseas which has helped me to attach with every kind of individuals in my work.
6. What recommendation do you have got for college students on campus at this time?
My largest piece of recommendation is to make use of the alumni community to attach with folks in your required subject. It is a useful useful resource.
