Grad school, clinical training, supervision, licensure — there's a language and structure to this field that isn't always explained clearly.
This guide helps you find your footing in it — so you're not constantly trying to catch up.
Delivered as a PDF. You'll also receive occasional notes from Devan — honest, practical reflections from the path ahead.
Created by a licensed therapist who's navigated grad school, supervision, and the realities no one explains clearly the first time.
Most of the confusion in this field isn't because you're not paying attention. It's because things are introduced in pieces, without a clear map of how they connect. This guide gives you that map.
A grounded orientation to grad school, clinical training, and the first years of practice — not a pep talk, not a warning. Just a map of the terrain.
Practicum, internship, supervision, licensure — the moving parts of training, explained in context so you can see how they fit together.
What this phase of becoming actually feels like from the inside — and why the disorientation is part of the process, not a sign you're behind.
Not a list of things to memorize. A way to start making sense of what you're already inside of.
There's an assumption of familiarity that most students don't actually have yet.
Words get used interchangeably — even when they don't mean the same thing.
You're not supposed to feel fully confident walking in.
And most people don't realize it's happening until they're already adapting to it.
Inside, you'll find a simple way to orient yourself to the field — and a first way into the larger work of the book.
Not to overwhelm you. Just enough to help things start settling into place.
You're not behind. You're in the part no one names.
A Practical Guide to Becoming a Psychotherapist and Building a Sustainable Career in Mental Health.
This guide is a small preview of the larger conversation inside Therapist in Training — a book about becoming a clinician without losing your humanity in the process.
It's about imposter syndrome, yes. But it's also about the systems you're walking into — the ones that ask healers to burn themselves out for the sake of productivity. It offers practical orientation for internships, supervision, licensure, and what comes after.
You are allowed to grow into competence. You are allowed to be human while learning.
Get the guide while you waitI'm a licensed social worker, psychotherapist, and marketing director — which means I spend my days thinking about both the inner work of becoming a clinician and the structures the profession asks us to navigate.
I wrote Therapist In Training because I walked into grad school in the middle of a pandemic, full of questions no one seemed to be answering out loud. I wanted to be the guide I wish I'd had. So I started putting words to the things I wish someone had said earlier.
— Be who you needed.
A short, grounded orientation to the field — and a first step into the larger conversation inside the book.
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