Message from FCA President 2022-2023

Luisairis "Iris" Soto, LMHC, NCC

July 1, 2022

Greetings FCA Members,

I am so grateful and excited to be serving as your FCA President during the 2022-2023 fiscal year. I am looking forward to collaborating with and advocating for our counseling profession in this role. My reason for becoming a counselor and being in this space is because I have a passion for helping others, want to create safe spaces for conversations about mental health and emotional needs, and become well-informed about the resources we have available in our community so that this information can be used to bridge community needs within our mental health system.  My passion for counseling also stems from my own lived experiences with depression and anxiety, and so I have felt, and continue to feel, stuck, often at a loss for words, and wonder what I can do differently because of what we are experiencing in our world today.

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