{"id":1280,"date":"2019-10-24T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:08:11","slug":"psychology-online-tracey-campion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/psychology-online-tracey-campion\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State Everywhere: Taking the road less traveled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychology student\u2019s decision to return to school online has made all the difference<\/h2>\n
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A variety of support resources helped Tracey Campion throughout her time learning online with Oregon State, including an Ecampus student success coach \u2013 and her dog, Poppy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Becoming an OSU Ecampus student was a very cohesive and grounding experience for me. Deciding to finish the degree I had started many years earlier brought my life experiences together in an unexpected way.<\/p>\n

Initially, the spark to complete my education had come from arriving at one of those road-less-travelled crossroads that prod you to make a decision and keep you stuck there till you do.<\/p>\n

That spark hit me when I was working in Mexico at one of my lifelong entrepreneurial, self-employment projects. This particular project was nearing its end, and I found myself looking back at a lifetime of creating my own work. I realized that I was getting older and feeling less inclined to start new projects from scratch.<\/p>\n

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Tell us your story<\/h3>\n

Write your own OSU Everywhere story by sharing the triumphs and challenges you faced as an OSU Ecampus student.<\/p>\n

Share story<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

I had taken all the big risks I was willing to take, and at the crossroads I felt a yearning for a more cerebral type of work. I realized that while I had always brought community into my work and found ways for it to be meaningful occupation, I wasn\u2019t truly contributing as much as I wanted to.<\/p>\n

Graduation on the horizon<\/h3>\n

As a new college student 25 years earlier, I had declared psychology as my major in hopes of becoming a counselor or therapist. It was a cherished goal that I had not been able to follow.<\/p>\n

This is what brought me to Oregon State\u2019s online bachelor\u2019s degree program in psychology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will graduate in December with my degree in psychology \u2013 not with a view of pursuing a master\u2019s degree and becoming a licensed therapist after all, but with another goal in mind.<\/p>\n

As a way to gain exposure to what being a therapist would be like, I had found a clerical position at a large, private counseling agency in Portland. The experience there gave me valuable personal insight. I found that I loved being behind the scenes working in a support role and \u2013\u00a0after a promotion \u2013 running a clinic.<\/p>\n

Following the thread<\/h3>\n

I had owned and operated a print production company, a restaurant, an art gallery, a jazz club, a house-flipping business, a house-cleaning business and more, and in all of these endeavors there was a thread.<\/p>\n

I had always been drawn to coaching employees or clients in some way. Whether they wanted to start their own restaurant, open a music school or buy their first home, they needed help from someone who knew how and who could be an ally.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved that role, and it has become clear that I should be practicing as a small business self-employment coach. But I was struggling with the idea of it after spending so much time working toward becoming a therapist. I needed a coach!<\/p>\n

My Ecampus success coach<\/a>, Bethany Ulman, became my sounding board and ally, and the concept began to fall into place.<\/p>\n

A bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology could not be a more fitting education for a coach, and I am so appreciative that the OSU Ecampus program was available for me to return to school online as an older, working student from outside the country.<\/p>\n

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The Oregon State Ecampus staff thanks Tracey for submitting her unique, inspiring story to share with others through the Oregon State Everywhere campaign<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/span> 3<\/span> minute read<\/span><\/span>“My Ecampus success coach, Bethany Ulman, became my sounding board and ally, and the concept began to fall into place. A bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology could not be a more fitting education for a coach, and I am so appreciative that the OSU Ecampus program was available for me to return to school online as an older, working student from outside the country.” \u2013\u00a0Tracey Campion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,6,3,677,8],"tags":[640,544,96,30,475],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-ecampus","category-features","category-students-and-alumni","category-students","tag-health-and-human-science","tag-osu-everywhere","tag-psychology","tag-student-success","tag-student-success-coaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/assets\/Tracey-Campion-2019-744x478.jpg?fit=744%2C478&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BNSE-kE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1649,"url":"https:\/\/ecampus.oregonstate.edu\/news\/online-economics-hope-sims\/","url_meta":{"origin":1280,"position":0},"title":"Oregon State Everywhere: Developing passions, adding skills for the future","author":"Hope Sims","date":"December 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The courses that I\u2019ve taken have helped me expand my education in economics and further develop my passions for sustainability. 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