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TLDR:

• Does the clinical psychology doctorate and all the steps required to get accepted, make for a good pathway into becoming a therapist with a private practice, trained in multiple modalities and earning a good salary?
• For example having your own office, being trained in EMDR, somatic therapy, and maybe some other kinds of therapy and being able to go in-depth with clients, being able to work with compex cases, and work through childhood experiences and/or trauma?

Edit after seeing comments:
I’m very grateful for everyone encouraging me think about the ethics of using public money to help me gain a pathway into private practice! Thank you for explaining to me how much it costs as I was not aware (I naively assumed being trained as a CP doesn’t require government investment because I didn’t know much about how it works, I assumed it was more like a job).
Also I should have mentioned that for brevity I didn’t include that if I was to get trained through the NHS I would intend to work full time for multiple years and then move to part-time whilst having a practice.
Thank you for the insights into the job being a leadership role and it is not just a therapist role!
I think your responses will really help me find an ethical way to be a private practitioner someday.

Hello Everyone! I'd like to preface with how useful this subreddit has been and how inspiring and heartwearming being able to read people's insightful responses has been!

I am a 27 year old woman, about to finish a BPS conversion MSc in educational psychology. When I applied it was the only conversion course available in the city I wanted to live in, but I am more interested in clinical/therapist routes.

I know what my dream is for my end goal, but not sure that I have enough insight into what the various progressions are, even after reading other people's questions and job specifications for training routes.

The dream would be to be a therapist that can work privately, perhaps take on some cases for free for low income patients. I would like to be trained in different modalities, as in my personal experience I found therapy most helpful from qualified psychologists that can also do EMDR, schema therapy, CBT, and somatic therapy in general.

I have had counselling before and based on that experience being a counsellor did not appeal to me, because I didn't perceice it as being flexible enough or maybe providing enough space to explore childhood and trauma in a way that felt meaningful to me (perhaps I just didn't click with those individual counsellors I'm not sure). I've had 'good' and 'bad' therapy for sure and in my mind at least I did put it down to how much training they might have or whether the modalities they were trained it allowed to a great level of depth in a therapeutic relationship. Perhaps that is judgemental, I just don't know enough about the field and these were my impressions as a patient!

My interests would be sex+relationship therapy or some form of trauma therapy, but I know for sure I would like to be highly qualified if that makes sense and I would like the training to be rigorous to ensure I'm actually a good therapist.

It is very important to me to be able to make a high income. Thats not why I want to do this career path, I have just realised that that is important to me, as I'd like to provide my family with a good life and support my parents and grandparents financially hopefully.

I would just love some advice on what pathways you might recommend for me?

I was thinkiong of achieving this through doing the clinical pscyhology doctorate, after working as a PWP for a couple of years first, would that be a mistake?

I would just love some insights from people that are in the field, as to what pathways can help you become the sort of therapist I am dreaming of being. Thank you!