"Greetings from Tamsin!" An inside look at one of our newest practicum interns!

This blog is presented by Tamsin Jimenez, practicum intern. For more information, please visit Martin Counseling.

A very warm hello to all!

My name is Tamsin Jimenez, and I am THRILLED to join the marvelous Martin Counseling team! Tidbit #1, Jennifer Pinner and I have known each other for a short time, only 26 years or so, and considering that both of us are forever 29, we basically grew up together. With that said, I might be slightly biased towards all of your collective brilliance, but from my experiences with only a few of you thus far, I truly believe my biases to be fully justified!

From a young age, I knew I wanted to help people. I enjoyed working in hospitality and real estate; however, where I felt truly valued was in my work as a nanny. Merely a supplemental undertaking during my undergraduate studies at University of Houston, I was immersed in the full family functions of a few dedicated, yet very different families. Children would come to me with things they felt their parents simply wouldn't get.  Parents would come to me just wanting to talk to someone who wasn't there all day, every day.  And now my focus began to come to light!

Fast forward to my 38th birthday. I am a wife and mother to a beautiful, 4-year-old, miracle (big) baby boy named Harley. Tidbit #2, my husband is a biker, and I grew up in England, so the name Harley really chose us.  I embrace and adore my roles as wife and mother, yet I knew I needed to think ahead. I gifted myself an adventure on the Grad School Express! It's a bullet train with infrequent stops, but it's the best gift I could have given myself. A year later, I sometimes know what day it is, and I might require alarms to check my various to-do lists, but I am so ready! Alongside schooling, mom-ing, and wifey-ing, I co-parent my nephews with my super sister. I am also an active Guardian Ad Litem with the Child Advocates of Fort Bend where I am blessed to satisfy a burning passion for child advocacy, as I strengthen the voices of children in the foster system. Mental health awareness and self-awareness make up a massive chunk of what fuels my fire. 

I offer my humble gratitude for all of your contributions and cannot wait to begin this next chapter towards donning the title of mental health professional. I am a very open person, and I love to chat and get to know new people. Full disclosure, I am nervous. Fullest disclosure, nerves never win in the end against Tamsin. Thank you all for reading this far! I can't wait to load up my own wand with some magic from each of yours. 

For any questions, please contact Martin Counseling’s office at 713-489-5473 or email: Info@HoustonLPC.com