ABSTRACT
The text, The Professional Counselor: Challenges and Opportunities, represents the author's effort at introducing the counseling profession to graduate counseling students and those considering the profession. Throughout the pages of the text the author has attempted to portray the counseling profession through the windows of eyes. The author has counseled individuals, couples, families, and groups, at an in-patient psychiatric center, in the remote Outback of Australia, in South African orphanages, and numerous other locations. As a counseling professional who stumbled into the profession by accident when taking a counseling course when running a university living group, the author's initial foray was transformed into a life-altering pathway. It is no exaggeration to say the counseling profession has changed the author's life for the better. Professional life has occasionally been very hard on her but the challenging times only make the smooth one more rewarding.
