Reply to Psychotherapy as a Career -- MSW or Counseling MA?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Psychotherapy as a Career -- MSW or Counseling MA?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I am a mid-career professional hoping to move into the field of psychotherapy.  My eventual goal would be to work in private practice with relatively high functioning adults (as clients... and probably as colleagues as well).  I understand there are many paths to reach this end -- PhD, PsyD, LPC or LCSW.  I have ruled out the doctorate programs as too expensive and/or too much of a time commitment.  Therefore, I'm now looking at Catholic's MSW program and Johns Hopkins' MA in Counseling program.  Both programs seem strong.  Catholic's is considerably more expensive, but also offers more fieldwork hours (a plus for experience, a minus for child care logistics).  Because of the extra fieldwork hours, Catholic's program would likely take about a year longer to complete, as a part-time student, than Hopkins.   Most of the classes in the Hopkins program are offered at a satellite campus in Rockville (convenient to my house).  One concern I have about the Hopkins program, however, is that an MA in  Counseling may be less widely known/ not as well regarded as an MSW.  However, it's hard for me to get a sense of that.  Any insight on which program might be a better choice to prepare me for a career as a psychotherapist would be greatly appreciated.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics