Psychologist

Counseling Psychology is a specialty within professional psychology that maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span. The specialty pays particular attention to emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational concerns.
The requirements to become a licensed psychologist are:
Clear the 10+2 exam preferably with psychology as one of the subjects.
Complete a Bachelor (BA or BS) in Psychology degree (the curriculum of which focuses on personality development, psychotherapy, stress management and neuro-psychology).
Specialization at the postgraduate level, where one can get an MA or MSc in psychology, social work or counseling.
Further specialization at the doctoral level is available as well via PhD or M.Phil.

Hi Aafreen,
Career options after completing BAMS:
The areas which are available for a BAMS graduate to build a successful career can be broadly classified into the following five categories:
Clinical practice
Academic
Research
Management and administration
Drug manufacturing
Career options after completing BA in psychology:
Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Experimental psychology, Occupational psychology, Child psychology, Educational psychology, etc. They can work as Clinical Psychologists / Educational Psychologists / Industrial Psychologists / Counseling Psychologists / Research psychologists / Social Psychologists / Developmental psychologists. Some of the areas where a psychologist can work are Welfare Organizations, Prisons, Child/ Youth Guidance Centres, Research Establishments, Rehabilitation Centres, etc.