Mental Health Licenses

• These master's degrees often do not allow you to complete class 1 assessments
• May focus on wellness counseling instead of medicine-based counseling
• They often do not allow you to teach at some universities and do not usually involve completing research

• Advanced degree and training to work specifically with students and school staff

• A doctoral degree to diagnose and provide therapy

• A master's degree that focuses on relationships and human development during marriage and family therapy

• LPs can provide direct clinical help to patients, diagnose, and create treatment plans
• Some states require LPAs to be supervised by LPs during their clinical or one-on-one client activities

• A collaborative, hands-on approach with patients. Licensed by your state board and follows strict ethics and confidentiality practices

• Licensed by your state board to provide social work-based mental therapy or conduct research
• Case management role or individual-based therapy

• A doctoral-level degree that focuses on hands-on clinical work and your professional private practice more than research and data

• This doctoral degree usually involves researching ideas, experiments, and analyzing the research data more than doing in-clinic work with patients
• You may go on to teach or consult with universities or hospitals

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• A medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental health disorders
• Often does not do therapy or counseling

• Cannot offer therapy or counseling

• Cannot offer therapy or counseling

• Cannot offer therapy or counseling