I received my M.S. in Clinical Psychology from Radford University and was immediately hired in the emergency services unit for the New River Valley Community Services as an emergency services clinician. My job includes completing crisis interventions in the community, short-term crisis counseling, assisting in the psychiatric commitment hearings at St. Albans, and completing psychological testing and parental evaluations for social services. I have excelled at this position and had planned to get licensed so that I could stay with my agency and continue this type of work. After finding out that my degree is no longer considered license eligible I had to re-plan my career. I am now planning to return to school to get a doctorate in clinical psychology to pursue research instead of practicing in the community. If I had been able to get licensed with my initial degree I would probably have stayed in community mental health.