r/Psychologists

I have been studying quizlet and the provided MA psychology jurisprudence book, but still feel unclear on what exactly the 20 questions will focus on most. It feels like information overload. I am not sure if I am significantly over studying (I've been studying for 3 weeks now), or if I need to have everything memorized this well. I am coming from out of state, so I do not have any mentors or colleagues who have taken it to talk to. Any guidance on your experiences would be great (study approaches, level of depth needed on the exam, style of multiple choice questions). Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

I’m in the process of obtaining licensure to practice Psychology in the state of Pennsylvania. After filling out the application, involving letters of readiness, proof of relevant work history, and schooling, I received a letter today that says my application was denied on the following basis:

Your supervisory forms call into question your ability to assume independent practice with the requisite skill and safety to patients under your care. Particularly, there are documented struggles with professional conduct and respecting hierarchical roles in a large agency. Additionally, there are documented inconsistencies in professional reliability, responsiveness, and follow-through with workplace responsibilities. Therefore, the Board voted to provisionally deny your application because you have not demonstrated that you meet the qualifications or standards for a license in the Practice Act and Board regulations.

When I received this letter I felt blindsided, here is relevant history:

I graduated with my PhD in counseling psychology, and was hired at one of my training sites, which is a State Psychiatric Center in NYC. I had worked starting in 2022. During my time there, all of my progress reports were excellent. I was in charge of running specific programs and was an active member of my team. I followed all the policies and procedures while working there. It was a violent place, and I had continued through being assaulted.

In Dec 2024, I had a series of unfortunate life events that led to me being voluntary psychiatrically hospitalized, and I needed to take FMLA.

I’ll save what happened in between, but it has been a long year and I’m stable and sober. I stayed on FMLA and eventually left after understanding the stress and its impact on my mental health, and physical health. It was a very difficult and sad decision.

I’m very confused, ashamed, and scared upon receiving this letter. It feels like I was performing really well at work, I took the time that was legally allowed for me, and realized I couldn’t come back.

In order to appeal, I have to go to court and appear in person and testify.

Any advice or where to start is greatly appreciated. I received the letter today, so I apologize if I left some things out, I’m a bit frazzled.

I recently applied for a license in NY. There were no issues with my education, as that was equivalent to a PSY.D. Unfortunately Im coming up short on the 3500h/2y supervised training requirement. (Standard where I’m from is about 1.5y). How do I go about obtaining supervised training in NY? Is it even possible without being affiliated with an (US)university? TIA

hello, hoping people can help me out

i’m a fairly new group practice owner. I’m in the process of adding a new employee in the gusto payroll system.

I’m presented with an option called compensation type, and there’s an option to choose commission not eligible for overtime, and commission eligible for overtime.

if I choose commission only no overtime, I get a big warning that says federal laws say that employees in this category should be paid at least $684 a week per year

if I choose commission only and eligible for overtime than a big warning, pops up, saying that this person must earn at least the minimum wage

Of course, in the group practice, we are working on a feast split basis, and this employee is working only to see 10 clients per week. There’s no way that she would earn $684 per week. Or the minimum wage.

Any ideas? What’s my best course of action here? I feel like gusto is not capturing the practicalities of working for a group practice that has a feast split model. Plus we a startup and very few patients and referrals coming in at this time.

Not sure what to select here if you have any ideas, please let me know!

thanks

Hi all,

I am trying to track down a Clinical Psychologist who has retired in the last few years.

She used to work in Camberwell.

She cancelled membership with the Australian Psychological Society over 15 years ago, which is many years before she retired.

I have her full name, including middle name - short of getting a private investigator, is there any way I can track her down.

No this isn't nefarious, its a legitimate enquiry.

I plan to join the Army Reserves as a clinical psychologist and I am looking for psychologists who could describe to me what the position looks like in the reserves. Does the position seem meaningful outside of deployments? I want to use my skills and be as beneficial to my unit as possible.

Hi! I'm a licensed psychologist and specialist in psychoanalytical clinic in Brazil.

I'm interested to know the acceptance of North Americans/European people on doing online therapy with foreign psychologists (in english, obviously).

I see that the prices for these services in North America (NA) and Europe are quite high and not everyone can afford it.

For exemple, U$40- U$60 a session is not much for an NA Person, but it might be A LOT in other countries.

Not only that, I see that the main type of therapy that is offered in NA is CBT and I think some people are quite disappointed with CBT's techniques and are wanting to try some other types of therapy like psychoanalytic.

I've recently started a channel in english about psychological themes in a accessible way to try to help some people and promote my one-on-one sessions. I'm asking you all this to know if I keep investing my time and energy into the channel or I just focus on my practice here in Brazil.

I would love to know the comunity's thoughts on this... if it is possible, if it's not and why.

Much appreciated!

BTW, I don't think I'm promoting my sessions or myself with this post, since this is a community of therapists and not clients.

my name is aaaa and i am 21 years old man

i were suffering from the mental illlness(multi personality disorder)

i have three personlity within myself

but i can handle them manually

now i am going to introduce them

1.ben

2.max

3.normally me

for each of them have each tasks example ben is used for my acedemic and max is used for my happiness and last me who is used to take decisions

how its all began

i was normal child until 3th standard

i was studing at private school

i were dull student and my marks were low and even i couldn't read long words in tamil and english

i passed my quarterly and half yearly exam at boarder pass mark.

but everything changed when my maths mam started to encourage me by comptete with students who were toppers at our class (our standard has four classes from A TO D,students are filled in the classes according to their previous acedemic mark 2nd standard annual exam mark ascending order

so our class is last class for dull students )

with my ego and competative behaviour i scored high marks in maths and first mark in my class d but i scored low marks in tamil,english,science,social

but the taste of being first and taking high marks satisfy my ego so i started to work hard to be first rank

at my 4th,5th,6th,7th,8th standard

i were so competative and egoistic to score marks at these standard

i scored mark by 85 to 90 percentage of hard work and 15 to 10 percentage of cheating in exam

but at my 9th standard,i faced rejection and betrayal of friends for scoring marks by cheating

so i started to stop my cheating activities in the exam completely at end of 9th standard

WHERE MY PERSONALITY DISORDER TOOK ME:

during my 10th,11th and 12th i were sub consciously using my personalities without recognising which leads me to be alone and ignored by other

supernatural vision which were seen by me while i were unconscious

i could see two persons infront of me including them and me the total was 3

we all talked together every time even while sleeping and in my dreams

i felt something which can't be described in the words which give me a path to connect them visually

now i would my powers of my personality

1.ben who was very intelligent version of me and he could read and learn anything within short period example if i want to learn new things ,i would swap my position with him so i could read everything fast and without wasting the time

calculate everything,predict future accurately without flaws,withstand enormous pain ,

but he will come only at critical situation

last time i experienced him at my 12th board exam and state level sports competation

2.max-created for my happiness

because of him i can't cry anymore

i smile at critical and emotional situation because of him ,my family hated me

i can't express other emotions except smile

my classmates and teachers made fun of me infront of stage and auditorium

3. normally me

i am the one who controls these two persons

i acted as switch who come to take my body as per the need i faced

example: if i felt bored,sad,happy,tension,alone,etc.. ,i switch to max and started to be happy without a reason and do anything which makes me happy and fun

if i faced acedemic struggle like exam ,i would switch to ben who took care of me and read everything in a short period example in my 12th standard board exam

i wasted my study leave days unconsciously switch with max who wasted my time by watching,playing games and movies

after the mess ,we have 17 hours only to board exams .so i switch to ben who took care of me and give knowlegde to face the exam with his help my cleared my 12th board by 96 percentage

this things happened to me for every exams

after my 12th standard board exam , i started to realise that intense presence of them increasing every day and today they told me to share this to everybody i really don't the reason why they said me to share this information with you

my goal in my life to be Ben forever and invent new things and machines

my aim is to be a scitentist like sir Abdul kalam

now i am studing final year in b.e. at top tier college

my friends and my family don't know about this

I am aware that feeling lost, less competent, and imposter syndrome can run rampant in this field, with early career in particular. This is something I am struggling with a lot lately, being approximately 5 months post registration.

Aside from regular supervision what have you found to be helpful to break the cycle of imposter syndrome? I love this field and work but I am struggling to find my place and area of practice that I want to head in.

The request is for qualified psychologists.

Thanks a lot ❤️

I own a tiny private practice and accept insurance. I recently hired a w2 who stated at the start of the job that she can do a few evenings and can come in person for sessions and so I leased a new office space for her to see clients in since the office I’m in is fully booked by me all week. A week into her working for me she changed her availability to only one day/evening and I found out through questioning her that she is working for another private practice that is fully remote. I gave her an extra $5 an hour to her original pay in order for her to give me two days/evenings in-person and she agreed. She’s been with me for a few months now and today she called me said she wants to move to fully remote and only see 10 clients instead of the 25 she’s currently seeing and basically hinted at not wanting to see kids anymore although she agreed to that at the start as well. I’m covering her supervision fully and it costs a lot to keep her on and I truly don’t make much profit if any from having her on. She also is about a month behind on her notes which I have flagged twice. I don’t get many referrals for virtual and don’t think the clients she currently has will want to do virtual as they all came in wanting in person. I have a strong feeling that if I tell her what she’s asking for (fully virtual and 10 clients) doesn’t work for my practice that she will sue me since I’d be saying it right after she disclosed the pregnancy. I feel like I’m a baby business owner and truly don’t understand the complications of owning a business so I’m not too sure how to navigate this one..

I currently am already telehealth only and lately have been toying with the idea of traveling abroad but continuing to work and see patients. I would not be using insurance. Has anyone done this or has any input on whether it is possible?

Hi everyone,

I’m applying to UK doctorates in counselling psychology and I’m a bit confused about the GBC evidence requirement.

My background:

• Undergrad in psychology from a UK university.
• Degree is BPS‑accredited and my transcript explicitly states it confers eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC).
• I’m not currently a BPS member and I’m trying to avoid extra fees if possible.

What the programmes say:

• City, University of London:“The evidence would normally be in the form of a letter from the BPS confirming that you are a Graduate Member and that you have been granted GBC…”
• University of Manchester:“Please include in your application a copy of your membership letter or a document including the web address on the BPS website where we can find evidence that your degree meets the criteria.”

However, the Clearing House guidance on GBC documents says that for UK degrees, if your transcript states that it grants GBC, you do not need another document, and you can also use an official university letter confirming GBC instead of a BPS letter.

My questions:

1. For counselling psychology doctorates, have anyone successfully used just your transcript or a university‑issued GBC letter without being a BPS member?
2. Do any programmes insist on a BPS‑issued membership/GBC letter even for UK BPS‑accredited degrees?
3. If I do join once as a Graduate Member just to get the BPS letter, can I then cancel without it affecting my applications or eligibility?

I’m trying to work out whether BPS membership is truly necessary. Any advice or personal experience would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hello- I've been trying to find the answer to this question for some time now. I can't find any information on Kentucky or Colorado's websites. I've tried to look up the two boards' laws/policies and it is never mentioned. Does anyone know? Thank you.

I have been supervising counselors for 30 years on a university and private level. I have great relationships with my interns. I know the people they work for and about their personal life…not overboard with that part…I constantly hear from them even after they become licensed and we talk about challenges they faced throughout the process of grad school, associate licensing and LPC. The issues I see are frequent and common…However, just because I’ve been at this for years,I still want to be able to prepare my interns for what to expect and how to sidestep pitfalls…I also want to improve at training them to be good counselors that care about their clients and success.
I’d like to know your experience…what challenges have you faced? What could your supervisor have done to help you feel confident and competent? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Everyone working 1099 what are you doing for health insurance?

We just plugged in our information to healthcare.gov and it’s 14k a year for an 18k deductible plan. We are moving near st Pete Florida area.

Thank you

Hi! I want to apply to PsyD and probably also MFT programs for next fall. I'm apprehensive about applying because I feel that I lack clinical experience.

I went to a good school for undergrad studying Cognitive Science and Applied Developmental Psych and completed my MA in Child/Human Development on a research track a few years ago, with a high GPA in at both schools. Most of my experience has been doing qualitative research focused on children and families. Research is what I was interested in at the time! I have 900+ hours working in supervised fellowships at early childhood schools that were in my schools' departments. After my MA, I fell into a job as a nanny and have been with the same family for 3 years, starting when the child was a few months old. I work closely with the parents and feel like I am a parent coach for them but also a therapist at times. I think this job has really made me interested in clinical work but just worry I lack the kind of formal clinical/mental health experience that programs might desire that would indicate knowledge/understanding (e.g., assessments, therapy, crisis line, managing cases, inpatient).

I'd love to work clinically with young children (0-5 ish) providing therapy and psychological assessments; I'm equally interested in doing therapy with parents and adult individuals, from my experience as a nanny and in my own experience in therapy. I'd love to hear other peoples' take on my situation and I appreciate any and all thoughts!!

Buenas!! Soy psico recibida hace unos años, especializada en tcc y dbt. Estoy queriendo finalmente animarme al consultorio luego de haber ejercido en relación de dependencia y me cuesta poder ubicarme. ¿Conocen plataformas virtuales donde se pueda atender gente del interior o del exterior? Me gustaría poder sino formar parte de algún equipo terapéutico en zona norte, ya que aparte cuento con espacio para poder atender. Cualquier dato que tengan o tip que a ustedes les haya resultado en su búsqueda me sumaría un montón!! me gustaría hacer un poquito más comunitaria la clínica porque tiende a ser un poco solitaria!!

I thought I would share to help encourage anyone else who feels helpless with the insurance hurdles in this industry.

Headways new requirement for biometric data was the straw that finally broke the camels back for me. Lately, I have also seen pay rate decreases and a failure on their parts to actually refer new clients though they sold me on that to begin with.

First step: I made sure I was credentialed individually with every insurance company I was currently working with through my existing client base on the platforms. If you are not credentialed, this process will take 3 months, maybe more. I had done this when I first became licensed and it did require a lot of follow up, phone calls, etc, but not impossible. It IS confusing but if you allow yourself time to figure out the various details it becomes clearer.

Second step: I gave notice to my clients that I was transitioning to my own billing and collected credit card info for their co-payments.

Third step: I signed up with Square to take those cards which was easy because I already had a business bank account.

Fourth step: I searched through billing companies because I see a lot of Anthem and Aetna clients and Availity is hell on earth. Inovalon ended up winning for me so I signed on with them. What followed was approximately two months of onboarding and of testing claims through Inovalon while also having access to the VC platforms while I waited to see if this would work. Inovalon has a whole team to setup your billing and EFT enrollments. Some of the claims went through, some got denied. When they got denied I had access to the insurance companies billing department which was a lot easier to work with than I imagined.

Fifth step: CANCEL MEMBERSHIPS WITH VC PLATFORMS AND FREEDOM!!!!!

All in all I devoted probably a good 25-30 hours for all of this including the original work to get credentialed. The longest part was waiting on responses for claims, it is not a process that gets up and running in a month, you need a few months and patience but it is absolutely worth it to stick it to the capitalists in my opinion. I hope this helps encourage any of you who thinks you can't do this without these VC companies.

What was your experience? It is a good job?