{"id":25100,"date":"2023-03-07T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=25100"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:28:02","slug":"sc-student-spotlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/college-of-health-and-education\/school-of-counseling\/school-of-counseling-research\/sc-student-spotlights\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Student Spotlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maia<\/p>\n

Dr. Lillian Walker Shelton<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s really a funny story \u2013 my older brother is a social worker, his wife is a social worker, my brother-in-law is a social worker. So I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be a social worker. I want to be a counselor.\u2019 I was a legal secretary from 2006 to 2009, but I wanted to do more to help people \u2013 and I didn\u2019t want to go to school for social work because of all these other social workers in my family! So, I decided to instead go to school for counseling.<\/p>\n

I was doing a fellowship at that time through a group called the Younger Women\u2019s Task Force, and I would be involved in women\u2019s empowerment circles at a place called STRIVE DC. A lot of the women in the group said they wanted assistance but didn\u2019t feel comfortable, but they felt comfortable talking to me. So, that propelled me to go to graduate school at Trinity Washington University for counseling. Once I did that, I worked as a community support specialist in D.C., but I thought to myself that I still really wanted to do more. I saw an ad for Marymount\u2019s doctoral program in Counseling, and thought that this would enable me to really help more people and be creative. I applied in 2014, and now eight years later, here I am.<\/p>\n