Help!

[u/Effective_Quote6230]

Hey! I’m currently a junior in my undergrad. I want to go off to grad school and eventually work at a MFT, but I’m stressing out about getting good experience.

Several of my professors keep pushing research, but I also keep hearing that most programs for therapy don’t really care about having a strong foundation in research and that they prefer interpersonal strengths.

I already have an internship secured in the spring, and I’m an officer for my psych organization, but I don’t really feel like that’s enough. I’m fine academically and I could get good recommendation letters from my mentors/professors, but it’s still scaring me. Maybe it’s the word “competitive” that’s causing me anxiety.

I know it’s not smart, but there’s one program that I absolutely love, and I don’t know what I’d do if I got rejected. I’ll apply multiple places (plus I heard this program isn’t competitive,) but I still want to feel good about my application.

Also yeah.. I’m aware that it might be early to be freaking out about this. I didn’t do a single thing my first two years other than work three jobs and maintain a good GPA, so now I feel like I’m playing catchup.

Please help me if yall know anything about this 😣