Many of our graduates work in clinics and rehabilitation centres as neuropsychologists. In Germany, they find these jobs without additional postgraduate qualifications if they speak German fluently. If you intend to work in other countries, you need to inform yourself whether they have specific legal requirements to work as clinical neuropsychologist.
Importantly, it was decided in May 2021 that clinical neuropsychology (next to psychotherapy for adults and adolescents) will be included into the training for psychotherapists. This means that students, who want to work as clinical neuropsychologists in Germany in the future, will have to study a Master's degree with a focus in clinical psychology and psychotherapy that will end with a psychotherapeutical licence. They will afterwards follow a specialisation to become a certified neuropsychotherapist. Our programme does not fulfill the requirements for a psychotherapeutical licence.
Currently, it is not known when and if clinical neuropsychology will become a legally protected profession which includes a professional specialisation for neuropsychotherapy building upon a Master's degree in clinical psychology. Thus, it is not clear whether our graduates will still be hired by clinics without a psychotherapeutical licence in the far future.
Please also note our information on the current psychotherapy training.
The training as clinical neuropsychologist offered by the Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie (GNP) which provides professionalization to working neuropsychologists also without a psychotherapeutical licence will be offered until 2032. Professionals who follow this training are not allowed to work without formal supervision by a certified psychotherapist or doctor. They can also not balance accounts for their treatments with health insurance agencies.
