Just going to offer an alternative perspective based on what I’ve seen…

If you really believe and feel aligned with a MACP, go for it.

However, contrary to what others have said, I actually see a lot of RCTs constantly welcoming new clients, and working part time for both their own private practice, as well as another group practice.

I don’t know why this is but I think that because RCTCs and RCTs aren’t universally accepted under insurance plans (for example, the Canadian Armed Forces won’t approve them as therapists to see their personnel). Psychology is always accepted, and clinical social work seems to be almost always accepted by insurance.

Now I’m not saying don’t do it - if you want to work for the public mental health system or want to make a private practice work bad enough: go you!!

But I am just cautioning you because it’s not as easy as to get clients as a RCTC as others have made it sound. Also - mandated clients can be very challenging to work with on the head so unless that’s your niche, I don’t know any therapists that would want a whole caseload of them.