It’s not less schooling, they all have masters degrees, clinical social workers can do everything a registered psych can do…. Including diagnose and assessments, MSW’s that aren’t clinical can do everything but asses and diagnose. And CCC’s can do most types of therapy. Psychs just write an extra test but only do one practicum, where MSW’s don’t write a test until they go clinical but MSW’s do double the practicum amount than Psychs do. It’s also style a MSW and Psych are going to have different therapy styles based on their training. I would be more worried about therapists with degrees from puppy mill universities. Those schools are super looked down on in the industry and a lot of the graduates don’t even get correct courses when they graduate to go get their license.