Pathways to becoming a therapist

So You Want to Become a Therapist: A Guide for Career Changers and Prospective Students Category: Getting Started Reading time: 6 min Audience: Prospective Students & Career Changers I have started to notice a pattern. Over the past year, a growing number of friends and acquaintances have been asking me the same question: how do I become a therapist? Many of them are considering the same kind of career shift that I made — leaving one professional life behind to build another, one centered on supporting other people's mental health and wellbeing. As I write this, I am nearly done with my MEd program and internship. I have been genuinely happy with the path I chose — both the learning process along the way and the results, in terms of the clients I now get to work with. But I remember how difficult it was, in the early stages, to find clear and honest information about how to make an informed choice among a number of pathways that all seemed t...