I am a current first year PhD student. I have started counseling at my program's on campus clinic, and definitely love it – I definitely see myself providing therapy as a part of my career. I also am in my first assessment course and am loving it - I am fairly analytically minded and love complexity, and could see myself quite enjoying doing assessments as well.
I had a conversation with my assessment prof about career paths, and she told me that most psychologists she knows either do exclusively therapy or exclusively assessments, and that many have a hard time doing both (establishing and maintaining referral streams, inurance, etc).
I wanted to ask psychologists here if this is a common experience - is it a challenge and/or impractical to do both therapy and assessments? If there are any psychologists doing both, what has allowed you to be succesful/any tips for a trainee interested in both?
Thanks in advance!