{"id":1681,"date":"2026-02-17T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/claritycounseling.co.ke\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:38:47","slug":"from-corporate-banking-to-counseling-psychology-one-graduates-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcbuilds.site\/sp\/from-corporate-banking-to-counseling-psychology-one-graduates-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"From Corporate Banking to Counseling Psychology, One Graduate\u2019s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The email sat in his drafts folder for eleven days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses had rewritten it so many times that the words had started to blur. But on that Tuesday morning, sitting in his corner office on the fourteenth floor of a glass tower along Westlands Road, he pressed send.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two weeks later, he walked out of a decade-long career in corporate banking and into a counseling psychology diploma in Kenya.<\/span><\/p>\n

His colleagues thought he was having a crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His mother asked if he had been fired. His bank account, for the first time in years, looked uncertain. But Moses will tell you that the only crisis he was having was one of meaning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He had spent ten years helping institutions grow their wealth and had never once helped a human being grow through pain. He wanted to change that.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is his story, composited and anonymised from the experiences of several graduates of Clarity Counseling & Training Centre\u2019s programmes<\/a>. And if you are reading this on your lunch break, in a career that looks good but does not feel right, it might be yours, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Career That Looked Perfect on Paper<\/b><\/h2>\n

Moses had what most Kenyans would call a good life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A solid salary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical cover.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A company car.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Invitations to conferences in Mombasa and Nairobi\u2019s five-star hotels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He was the kind of person people pointed to at family gatherings and said, \u201cThat one has made it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But underneath the performance reviews and quarterly targets, something had been hollowing out for years. He would come home depleted, not from hard work, but from work that did not feel like it mattered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The turning point came when a close friend experienced a severe depressive episode.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses sat across from him at a coffee shop in Kilimani and realised, with a clarity that physically winded him, that he had no idea how to help. He could restructure a loan portfolio, but he could not hold space for someone in pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

That moment haunted him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He began reading about mental health in Kenya<\/a>, and the numbers were staggering. According to the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the country has only about:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n