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University of Wyoming Master’s Degree Program of Mental Health Counseling
Jacob R. Stotler
The University of Wyoming - 2019

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Personal Statement
The primary reason that I have to support my ambitions, efforts, and motivations to
succeed in becoming a professional mental health counselor, is to fulfill my future, and to
substantiate my own vision to become what I know a great mental health professional is. I know
that I carry the disciplines, the knowledge base, and the academic background to be utile and
sensitive to all levels of humanity. More so, I am gifted everyday with the motivation to work for
others, and the focus to help people discover the endowments, inheritances, and potential that
they hold. I have my momentum set to provide people the tools that they need to prosper.
I am interested in people, in solving problems, and in constructing the future. I am very
much focused on working with people with an effort to find the people that are desperate to be
valued. I will always continue to work towards being a more quintessential professional with all
of my effort. I hold all of my affairs with a sturdy balance of being conservative with spending in
my relations, though I am very liberal with my willingness to work, learn, and toil.
I am solely aware of the vulnerabilities of people and the sensitivities that people
respond to; I am ethical, serious, committed, and dedicated to people of all stratum and
backgrounds. I find myself to be essential to mental health, because I see more than
rehabilitation in psychological practice, and I recognize that people of all politics, need a place to
redound themselves.
My life experiences have constructed a rare and unique background, yet my resources,
references, and experiences are vast and competitive. I have an academic background that is
competitive because of my own efforts and applications, and because of my own determination
to work in a more specialized area of psychology. I have studied under well respected professors
and doctors in areas such as psych-rehabilitation, psychological testing, social work,

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addictionology, drugs and behavior, humanities, human development, biology, chemistry, and a
majority of the disciplines that structure modern day psychology.
My work background is extensive although most recently, I have worked with domestic
violence associations, a firm that specializes in assistive living for adults with intellectual and
developmental disabilities, as well as I have become a certified nurse’s assistant (CNA) to work
with geriatric patients, dementia patients, and psychiatric patients in isolated clinical settings. I
have practiced as a mental health technician, and a CNA for almost one year, in an in-patient
setting. I have also offered to help nearly 500 people quit smoking within my own affairs.
My personal experiences are foundational to my achievements, as I have deep interests in
the medical field, medical technology, futuristic treatments, and feedback-based applications in
psychology. These subject areas peak my interest because of my superior discipline, my
tendency towards cleanliness, and my academic focuses concomitant to that of my ambitions to
both work for people and discover for them. I see myself with bold capabilities to contribute to
medicine through psych-based health. I know myself to be an asset to my peers and superiors. In
addition to my pursuits and academics, I enjoy long distance running, physical training, and
experimenting with technology. I have an interest in athletics, fitness, exercise, writing, research,
health, and investing. Over most other agendas, I am focused on research and future treatment
strategies in psychology. The challenges that I see ahead are constant tests of all of my
disciplines. The challenges that I know are ahead, are the reason for my work, and I trust that the
most arduous challenges the future will bring are not my own; but are those of the people that I
work for.
I have made innumerable experiences, learned invaluable lessons, and I have worked in
an abundance of situations that have demanded vital discipline, precision, and endurance. I have

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worked with people from many different ethnic communities and populations. I have worked
with some of the most sensitive people on earth, and I have shaken hands with as many people as
I could.
My life experiences have prepared me for counseling, because I have continuously
worked towards those experiences that reinforce me to strive for a higher achievement. I have
faced difficult obstacles, and I have struggled in many ways. My life experiences have solidified
my readiness to move forward, and to become an upper most superior in the field of mental
health; this because of my devotions, my endless finesse to rise to meet the needs of others, and
my elaborate history in pursuit of perfection within my work. I hold high academic
achievements, an Associates degree in psychology, I anticipate graduating from the University of
Wyoming in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology, and I hold countless certifications.
I am ready to work on the disciplines of my final career in psychology, mental health, and
counseling. I know that I am ready because I have found myself again, and again acting out what
I know are the most courageous movements that I have witnessed, strictly in the name of
leadership. I am willed and aware that steps that I have ahead are going to be the most
challenging, and I am most conscious now of the needs of the future, more so than I will ever be.
I have become the most serious about my work, and the future than I ever have been, this is
because I have noticed people adopt my efforts, and I have recognized integral connections that
have yet to be fulfilled. I have become the lessons that I have learned, and I feel that other people
may gravely need my apogee, my discipline, my sagacity, and my authenticity.
I am a persistent and restless student at this point. I heed to all of my classes as priority,
and even though I almost finished with my degree and course work, I am attending some the
most challenging courses orchestrated by the University of Wyoming. I am at all times working

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on my school work; I have shaped my work schedule to reflect my devotions to both psychology
and my own academics. As a psychology major I focus on stress management by prevention and
proper allocation of stress. I follow routines in which offer me exercise and daylight, I meet
people regularly, I stay out of my own comfort zone as much as possible, I try to grow with my
own sources of stress, and I pay close attention to health, everyone’s. I feel that there is hope in
stress management through athletics, and even in new sources of technology such as
biofeedback, and nuerofeedback.
I continue to detail my own disciplines, ethics, and approaches, and I am devoted to the
lessons and strategies, that I have learned in the past. I have focused strictly on ethics, ethical
boundaries, and ethical dilemmas in my studies quite extensively, as these areas are held to be of
high importance, as ethics have been accounted for in nearly all of the academic material that I
have studied. I am made to be ethical, because I have worked to be competitive.
I have experienced people in crisis, I have worked with people in their prime, and I have
led for people that are unsurpassed. I believe that my experiences have assisted to condition me
to be a stable support for the people of the future; this is because I understand that sometimes
discipline at its best is priceless, resources are the only way to progress, and sometimes the
largest movement is a small mistake away.
I have strived throughout my life to become a superior to whatever challenged me, to me
that means to think for others, to work only by systemization, and to count on taking the lead in
all possible positions. The best that I will offer to the program is my attachment and care for the
University of Wyoming that I have built the past two years, my adaptiveness to new problems,
my devotion to the growth of people, my connections within the Casper area, and my genuine
hunger to rise and prosper in the field of exposing people to their own health.

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