Hello aspirant,

After finishing your MA/MSc in Psychology, you can proceed to become a registered psychologist. For that, you’ll need to do an additional two-year MPhil course in Psychology from an institute recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). This is a purely professional course that entails hands-on training.

After finishing the MPhil course, you can start practising as a clinical psychologist anywhere in India. You can specialise either in Clinical Psychology or Rehabilitation Psychology for this MPhil degree.

Here are some well-known institutes across India that offer an MPhil course in Clinical Psychology:

• National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore
• Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi
• Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIMH), Tezpur
• Institute of Psychiatry (IPGMER), Kolkata
• Calcutta University, Kolkata

Only two institutes in India offer an MPhil in Rehabilitation Psychology. They are:

• National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Secunderabad
• Sweekaar Academy of Rehabilitation Sciences, Secunderabad