I currently serve as a mental health counselor with a specialty in child and family counseling working in private practice and serving as an assistant professor in counselor education. My first career was a public-school elementary teacher, which lead to a counseling career as a child specialist in a school-based mental health therapy program. My dissertation was a culmination of past experiences resulting in a phenomenological study on the lived experiences of school-based mental health therapists (SBMHT) employed by the district where they work. I have been witness to the immense impact of mental health issues on school-age children from both the clinical and the educational perspectives and spent the last year delving deeply into this topic through my CES PhD dissertation. This research lead to the discovery that many providers felt unprepared for work with children and adolescents and triggered a research project exploring the extent of training counselling students receive in their graduate experience. My educational and career experiences give me unique and rich perspectives on this topic that lend themselves well to researching, teaching, and advocating for improved counseling education practice to support the young clients many of these clinicians will serve.