Headless Stranger
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Hi,
I am currently planning my career with the final end goal of becoming a licensed psychotherapist. I'm planning to get my ADN and becoming a registered nurse. Then work for a year, get some experience and do travel nursing. I'm interested in majority of the nursing specialties, but mental health nursing seems the most attractive to me (comparing to other nursing specialties), so I'm probably going to pursue that. After that happens I have a couple choices:
ADN -> BSN -> Masters in Mental Health -> Mental Health Psychiatric NP, with eventually their own PP.
ADN -> BSN -> M in Psy -> PHD/PsyD
AND -> B in Psychology -> M in Psy -> PHD/PsyD
AND -> B in Psychology -> -> PHD/PsyD
Or some other way.
My biggest interest is probably clinical psychology.
What I want to do achieve ultimately is to do psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy. I want to work with people and try and solve their problems in life, not just prescribe and monitor how the drug takes effect.
I know that a MHPNP makes more money, but how much psychotherapy do they give? How much freedom do they have? What kind of patients do they have?
I would like to do research one day, but it is not necessary.
I love the psychoanalytic model by Jung, psycho-somatic therapy model like Somatic Experiencing and IFS. I thought perhaps during my nursing experience I could learn about SE and maybe help patients using that (if allowed).
What do y'all think? What seems like the best and possible path for me to take?
I am currently planning my career with the final end goal of becoming a licensed psychotherapist. I'm planning to get my ADN and becoming a registered nurse. Then work for a year, get some experience and do travel nursing. I'm interested in majority of the nursing specialties, but mental health nursing seems the most attractive to me (comparing to other nursing specialties), so I'm probably going to pursue that. After that happens I have a couple choices:
ADN -> BSN -> Masters in Mental Health -> Mental Health Psychiatric NP, with eventually their own PP.
ADN -> BSN -> M in Psy -> PHD/PsyD
AND -> B in Psychology -> M in Psy -> PHD/PsyD
AND -> B in Psychology -> -> PHD/PsyD
Or some other way.
My biggest interest is probably clinical psychology.
What I want to do achieve ultimately is to do psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy. I want to work with people and try and solve their problems in life, not just prescribe and monitor how the drug takes effect.
I know that a MHPNP makes more money, but how much psychotherapy do they give? How much freedom do they have? What kind of patients do they have?
I would like to do research one day, but it is not necessary.
I love the psychoanalytic model by Jung, psycho-somatic therapy model like Somatic Experiencing and IFS. I thought perhaps during my nursing experience I could learn about SE and maybe help patients using that (if allowed).
What do y'all think? What seems like the best and possible path for me to take?
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