Hi, looking for some advice. I am considering applying to do a Masters conversion in psychology course in Sept this year. I am a qualified children’s counsellor and Trauma informed practitioner working in a secondary school, and I am thinking about a career as an Educational Psychologist. I have a real interest in psychology and regretted not studying it at University first time round. Also I have come to realise there is a huge shortage of Ed Psych’s which has a real impact on young people with SEND ( my own child being one of them) when trying to get specialist support or apply for an EHCP.
However I have been researching how hard it is to get onto the training to be an Ed Psych after my masters, although I have been seeing quite a few Ed Psych trainee apprenticeship, so I am wondering if the government is trying different ways to increase Ed Psych numbers??
The other factor is I will be 52 when I begin the masters in September and will have to complete it part time due to financial restraints, so I will be 54 when I gain my masters. Have I left it too late!? Should I do a Masters in something else?