Yeah my wife is a MFT and it’s wild how long the process has drawn out before she made money. School, internship, practicum (actually just another internship), license exam, associates licensure requires a supervisor- either you pay them to supervise you or you have to work somewhere that will hire associates.
Anecdotally, as someone who is considering a career change out of tech, I am constantly shocked at just how long and how expensive it is to change careers to do anything else.
I shouldn't be surprised, given how much training it took me to get into this field, but being paid nothing and spending years in training was much easier to tolerate at 20 than at 40.
