Women Empowerment
Shobhika Jaju Psychology was my “Love at First Sight” Shobhika is both a qualified psychologist and career counsellor. For her, psychology was a passion right from a young age, and she always knew she wanted to become a psychologist when she got older. According to Shobhika, psychology is her 'love at first sight' and it's needless to say that she became firmly attached to it. Today Shobhika helps many in despair with her knowledge base in the field of psychology. I decided to meet Shobhika to find out about her journey tosuccess and here is her account of the same.
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According to Shobhika she becameinterested in the subject of psychology since she was around 13-years-old, so much so that she calls psychology her love at first sight.“I remember, I was barely 13 or 14 years old when I realised, I wanted to become a psychologist,” said Shobhika, adding that she was also lucky that her school was offering psychology at that time as a 5th subject in the optional subjects in the CBSE Board. “I didn't even know the meaning of the word psychology at that age, but I happened to read about the same in Oxford Dictionary, and with whatever online access we had at that time. You can say that it was love at first sight as I like to put it, and I knew in that moment I wanted to become a psychologist.” Shobhika originates from Varanasi, and she moved down to Goa after she got married.“I pursued psychology, and finished high school at Varanasi, then I moved to Mumbai to study at Sophia College for Women where I did my Bachelors in Psychology. I am happy to say that I passed out as the Silver Medallistfor Psychology final year for my bachelor's degree. “At that time,I was sure I wanted to do my Masters in Psychology, and so I went on to pursue the same in the field of Clinical Psychology from Mumbai University. I was in Mumbai roughly for a period of 6 years.During this time, I did a lot of internships related to psychology as part of course requirements, and that also exposed me to the different aspects of the field,” she added. Shobhika comes from a pretty conservative background, onein which the parents believe that once the studies are finished - the daughter should get married. “My parents told me do whatever you want but first get married. I didn't really start something back then, but my brother was living in Calcutta so I had the chance of living with him, and WWW.INCREDIBLEGOA.ORG
