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So my name is Nicole Castleman.

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I'm a licensed professional counseling candidate in the state of Colorado, and I graduated Divine Mercy University back in May 2019.

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I spent a lot of years looking for a curriculum that incorporates the mind, the body, and the spirit, and I couldn't find anything until I found Divine Mercy.

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The sense that I got when I found it was just overwhelming peace, and I knew that that was where I was supposed to be.

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Divine Mercy University set me up in the best way possible for my field.

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They offered real life opinions and experiences in classes and gave us the ability to look at a person as a complete whole instead of reductively.

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It's an amazing gift to be able to experience a client and actually see them and not just view them through the lens of the problem that they bring to you or their personal belief system.

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I go back to the Christian meta model of a person every time I have a difficult client and I just go through and I remind myself that this person is beautiful and deserves to be happy.

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And I'm amazingly thankful for being able to experience Divine Mercy University and everything that they've given me and to also bring that to the world in my own way with my clients.

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I also am very appreciative of the experiences and the opportunity I had to do trauma training with Doctor.

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Keyes and with the Center of Trauma and Resiliency Studies.

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I can't tell you how many job interviews I went on before I was hired because it was a ridiculous number.

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But every single place who interviewed me did so because I had trauma training and experience in the field.

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I can't say enough good things about Divine Mercy University and their counseling curriculum, and I'm so thankful for my whole experience with it.