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Graduate Award
Graduate Awards
Being recognized as an outstanding graduate student is a result of hard work, passion, long days, supportive people, and an eagerness to expand my knowledge and experiences. I am thankful that this department helped me develop my skills and confidence, and is now helping me celebrate my success as I graduate.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award in School Counseling : Zachary Watters
I believe that my peers are all equally as deserving of this reward as I am, so receiving it is incredibly humbling and motivating for me. It is wonderful to be able to look back on the countless hours and long days of work and know that they produced something successful, but this now also gives me a little extra motivation to keep my future work as high quality, far-reaching, and impactful as possible.
I am honored and humbled to receive the Outstanding Graduate Student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling Award. As I have progressed through this program, I've grown into my identity as an existential and narrative counselor with a personcentered foundation. That achievement has been fostered by self-reflecting, studying theory, practicing, and by the persistent encouragement and commitment of dear faculty mentors. I am deeply grateful, especially to Dr. Katie Purswell and Dr. Ben Willis, for gifting me the core conditions that helped me become who I am. This award indicates that the people who have educated me see me in the way I see myself: as a competent counselor who will represent our profession with excellence and grace.
