Counselling psychology for children? – The questions of training and career paths in an emerging profession

Abstract

Through my counselling psychology training and my clinical placement with the Place2Be, a charity that works inside schools to improve the emotional well-being of children, I have become very interested in the experiences and challenges that qualified counselling psychologists encounter when working with children. As a result I am researching this topic for my doctorate – an area in counselling psychology which is often overlooked in training modules and possibly, therefore, future career paths in the profession.