Advising Discerning College Students about Psychotherapist Career Options: Unpacking the Alphabet Soup of Graduate Training and Licensure

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Preprint

Publication Date

8-29-2024

Abstract

Many college students are interested in a career as a psychotherapist. With more recent attention directed towards mental health needs and less stigma in seeking professional services, there may be an even greater level of interest among college students wishing to become psychotherapists. Graduate training and career options in psychotherapy can be remarkably confusing since there are many diverse pathways to licensure as a psychotherapist. There is an alphabet soup of options that include pursuing a PhD, PsyD, MFT, LPC, MSW, among others? Students, and their advisors, need simple guidelines to best figure out which pathway is best for individual students. This article hopes to introduce several critical questions and issues to consider to help students more easily find the path that will suit them best.

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This is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed. Data may be preliminary.

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