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I am currently applying to some CACREP accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling Degrees. I want to know what my education will be like if accepted into one of these programs.

I am currently in the process of applying to both masters of social work and masters of clinical mental health counseling. I am debating between these two careers and I am stuck on which I should choose. I would like to know what each program is like. How are they different from one another? Which would you say is more difficult? On the one hand, everybody keeps telling me to get my MSW because it will be more marketable. However, sometimes I feel like I should go for a counseling degree because it is more related to my psychology bachelors degree and I feel that I may understand the content better. I guess I feel like maybe getting an MSW would be more difficult since I do not have a strong foundation in this subject other than one intro to social work class that I have taken. I know I shouldn't be worried on difficulty of the programs because they will both definitely be difficult, but I want to be able to keep some sanity and have some free time too.