Amazing Student: Monica Sanchez
Monica Sanchez (Ph.D. ’27) is a Goizueta Foundation Graduate Scholar with the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education. A first-generation college student pursuing counseling psychology, her work aims to provide culturally informed training to mental health clinicians and create spaces for underserved communities to receive services.
“My family and community are my greatest sources of motivation,” she said. “I aspire to be the kind of provider my parents or relatives would feel comfortable working with in therapy, someone who can honor their struggles with compassion and dignity. It is important for clients to be able to express their grief, sadness, anger, or joy in the language they feel most natural to them, so they can truly process and make meaning of their emotions within the counseling space.”