Shonna Porter, a 2008 MHGS Alumnae from the Counseling Psychology program, was recently featured in the local paper about her practice. Shonna is applying her degree as both a therapist and an exercise physiologist, helping people discover the root of their weight issues. Shonna speaks about why her targeted practice is important:

“Once you actually go to a counselor and really deal with the undertone of what’s happening, why you are either eating or having some form of addition come out of anxiety, you find that eating disorders, eating addition and food addiction tend to subside,”

“I want people to know that change doesn’t happen on a cerebral level,” she says. “… Change happens in a relationship … To have an authentic relationship with someone who can hold space for whatever you bring, there’s power in that and that fosters change.”

Shonna’s story is similar to many MHGS alumni who often find creative ways to use their degrees to impact the lives of others. Click here to read the whole article.