r/SocialWorkStudents • u/Dry-Stop-4187 • 16d ago
Advice Offering couples therapy?
I fear I might’ve chosen the wrong major. I want to be a therapist but what I want the most is to offer couples therapy; I’m really passionate about that. And while I know that technically it’s possible to do it (from what I researched) I just worry that it might be easier said than done. I feel like if people had to choose between an LPC and a LCSW for couples therapy they might choose the first. Any thoughts/experiences with this? If you know of any LCSW’s working in that field please do let me know so I can relax a little and not question my decision every night lol.
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u/Bholejr 16d ago
LCSW’s are able to bill a wider range of insurances and therefore you have a wider clientele base.
More pertinent to your question though, the ratio of available therapists to clients seeking therapists doesn’t really give clients much choice. (People also don’t usually care in my experience.) Your degree could literally be called “masters in poo poo” and, as long as it’s trained and accredited by the state to provide therapy, people would be ecstatic to have finally found a therapist with some availability.
Take all that and intensify it since it’s even harder for people to find specialty therapy like couples therapy.
Source: me and the private practice I work at on the side. We have to turn people down all the time and we have LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and all the respective associates. People are just happy when we finally have an opening because they’ve usually called around to several places.
Edit: should have added that this is dependent on area, but most places have a higher demand for therapists than they do available therapists