Fatimah Muhammad

I have been involved with some sort of counseling all my life. Beginning from peer mentoring and tutoring in middle and high school. I received my undergraduate degree at Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Child and Family Development. I have always had a keen interest in working with women that have suffered from being battered. In my undergraduate years I spent majority of my junior year volunteering at a battered women's shelter. Although, I was only allowed to work with the children. However, it was then that I realized how much my love grew for each child. I began to participate in seminars that advocated to acknowledge the community about child abuse and domestic violence. I even decided to take a child development class in which I got to work closely with a child care and work alongside the Preschool teachers. I had a wonderful professor who had her PH. D. in Marriage and Family therapy who inspired me to research more about it. I also had a wonderful professor that was in the field of social work. I was torn between going to school to receive a MSW or MFT degree. However, I stumbled upon a program in which a peer had gave me great hopes about. It was on the day of the lucky Irish that I received a phone call from the Director of Mercer University to set up a formal meeting. I went on to receive a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Mercer University School of Medicine. I have interned at two different Practicum sites where i received experience working with CORE, DFCS, and a Drug Rehabilitation program. My first official job in my career was at Bethany Christian Services in which I worked with adopted and foster children and their families. Then I began working at Northside Psychological Services in which I held several different positions. I first began working alongside the Psychologist as a psychometrist to evaluate children and adolescents mental and behavioral functioning. Then I did some therapy with a few individual before falling into the position of a DFCS liaison. I began doing Comprehensive Child And Family Assessments. I managed later a team of two other individuals and I worked with two counties doing the assessment and going to meetings. Later o was blessed with the opportunity to work with a company called New Directions Community Outreach Services. I was offered the Position to be a Program Manager. I also began a program on school in which I am going for a doctorate in ministry with an e