Do you need a post graduate degree in psychology to become a counselor or psychotherapist?
You can get a master’s in counseling. Often times if you are ambitious as an upperclassman in undergrad program, you can take classes that count toward this. I don’t know if you can apply them to grad school if you need them for your bachelor’s degree…but if you have more credits than you need in the right departments, you can definitely pick and choose which to put on your BA transcripts, then you have a head start on grad school when the time comes. In the field of social work, which is my background (as a BA, I never pursued a master’s degree) I learned soon after leaving college that you need a masters to do any type of work in a school, including guidance counseling, or a hospital, or a mental health clinic. But there are plenty of other places that you don’t need a full blown master’s degree to do the work. The warning is that you won’t get paid as much, you may be competing with MA’s to get the job, and you may not see much advancement. Places like recovery centers, adoption a
