Saturday, November 26, 2011

First post

Just a quick introduction:  My name is Jennifer Dattilo Watts and I'm currently a Graduate student through Capella University.  Also an Air Force Veteran (4 years of active duty, no deployments), a military spouse (husband is still active duty & plans to retire), and a mother of 3 kiddos.  We're currently stationed at Langley AFB, VA and so far this has been our favorite location.  Other duty stations I've been at include Edward AFB, CA; Holloman AFB, NM; Lackland AFB, TX; & Sheppard AFB, TX.  

I'm very excited to be beginning my fieldwork experience in the counseling program and actually get out there and work with people.  Eventually I want to specialize in working with military families because I have had the unique experience of being both on the active duty side & on the spouse side of the military.  There is a very distinct military culture that can be difficult to understand if you've never been around the military itself.  I'm hoping the history I have with the military together with my schooling will give me the ability to really connect with and help military families.

2 comments:

  1. Hello, I follow you on twitter and I was very excited to see what we have in common. I to study Counseling Psychology at Capella, veteran, married to active duty planning on retiring (deployed at the moment).

    I look forward to reading your tweets and reading your blog.

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  2. So sorry I had my notifications turned off. Well I managed to graduate LOL It was a tough year and this year is going to be interesting to say the least, but Capella was a great program and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment - hope you've been enjoying the Twitter posts :)

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