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Where are you in your schooling? How much do you have to do to get where you want to go? ... if you don't mind my asking.

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I'm in my last year... Next May I will graduate with my Master's Degree in clinical/counseling psychology.

In mid August, I will have all the pieces of my application submitted for doctoral school. If I get in, it will be an additional 5 to 7 years of schooling to become a clinical psychologist.

If I don't get in, then I will take the licensing exam to become a Master's level Licensed Professional Counselor. I will also be very distraught. So I'm hoping that I do get in because I won't do very well as a distraught therapist.

Either way, I do hope to be trained as an analyst and receive certification in that at some point. There are two wonderful psychoanalytical schools here in Philadelphia.

Thanks for asking.