We recently connected with Hector Olivencia and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Hector thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

My defining moment was back in 2022 when I went for a summer camp at Pennsylvania. This camp’s name is Experience Camps. This camp program is for children who experienced the loss of a significant one in their lives. I’ve been volunteering for another organization and through one counselor I found about this one. I applied to go to Georgia but due to a sickess I was sent to another location two weeks later. In that place I found my purpose in life; which lead me to become a Grief Specialist for that organization and eventually I started with this role at the location I applied in the first place. Grief is my focus as a mental health professional; in Pennsylvania I experienced that feeling that there are no words to describe… the right moment, the right place, the right people, the right thing to do….

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’m have a Medical Microbiology Bachelor degree, and a Masters’s in Education in Biology Teaching Curriculum. When completing my Master’s I took a counseling class and that changed my point of view. So in order to pursue what I was feeling was the thing to do I started my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. This is something that I will never regret because It is my “jam”. I believe that everything in life has a root in the brain… Helping others navigate themselves, providing the tools for them to become the better versions of them… healed versions is so wonderful.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I’m a men who first thought that males have to be strong and courageous. I was reached that men are not supposed to cry, be affective, be vulnerable, be touchy, be lovable, be huggable, be kissable, be cuddlers and so on… Through this journey I had unlearned those things and became the better version of me for me and for others. Healthy men are ment to feel everything, every human deserves it. No matter what society standards say, we can hug, kiss, be affective, cry and be humans in all it manners.

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

Yes, absolutely! Nothing more rewarding than see people become the better versions of themselves….

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @alomostdr.h
• Linkedin: Héctor L. E. Olivencia Huertas

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