If you enjoyed reading then counseling is definitely a career for you ( because you will be doing a lot of it). Even after you've achieved your masters degree and you're in your registered internship phase you should be reading. However, how much should you be reading?
Respectfully you should be reading at least one journal a week or three chapters of a book on something in counseling. Even though you don't have your license yet and you're not required to get continuing education credits to maintain your license you should still be keeping current. This is a part of your professional ethics and something that you must maintain in order to remain a competent therapist.
You owe this not only to yourself but you also owe this to your clients. However to make things easier on yourself you can alternate the topics that you read. And example being for every journal or book that you read that is on a topic that you don't really care for ; you can offset the boredom and sleepiness that you may encounter be reading a chapter of something that dose interest you.
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