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AAMFT coordinates education standards, 
coordinates training standards.

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Without the work of AAMFT, 

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we would be a scattered,
fragmented set of professionals 

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without a unifying standardization.

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They had two programs,
they had a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, 

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which is what licensed professional counselors
 typically pursue

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when they're looking to become
 a licensed professional counselor. 

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They had a marriage and family 
therapy program.

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And I was like, what in the world is this 
marriage and family therapy thing, 

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I want to know more about this.

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I learned more about the idea that it's 
not just focused on marriage and couples 

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or families, which I really care about. 

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But it's, it's a certain perspective 
of the way that we look at people

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and the lives that they live

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and how to approach therapy
from a systemic perspective.

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this idea that we all live and work 
and function and communicate within a larger system.

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We don't live in bubbles. 
We're not individuals.

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And so change can be very well effected 
through affecting the system that somebody lives in.

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And oftentimes, traditional therapy
doesn't take that into consideration.

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And so it's this continued feedback cycle 
in therapy where people change, 

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and they change their environment, their system, 
and that then affects them. 

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And they they work towards additional change.

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And that can sound like maybe therapy never ends.

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And that's not true, we do have therapeutic goals, 
treatment goals that we work towards.

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You get to know your clients, 
you get to participate in their lives,

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you get to be a part of their big moments 
and their hard moments 

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and their joy and their pain. 

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And you get to bear witness to that 
as they grow and as they heal.

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That, to me, is particularly rewarding.

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The world needs therapists, 
because there's a lot of pain.

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And there are a lot of people that can survive, 

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but they don't know how to help other people 
survive and thrive.

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we need people who not only can help 
people learn to express empathy, have empathy.

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But we need people who will model that
 for our communities.