Your day-to-day tasks will depend on your specialism. For example, you might work as an educational psychologist, where you would:

• help children to overcome difficulties
• interview young people and assess their emotional state
• develop treatment programmes to help clients' psychological wellbeing

As an occupational psychologist, you'll:

• assess the productivity of a business and how the staff work
• develop processes to measure employee talent and progress
• have one-to-one sessions with employees to support their wellbeing

In counselling psychology, you may:

• work with children and adults to explore their social, economic, cultural and spiritual health
• use psychotherapeutic methods, like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), to treat patients
• assess patients and recommend treatments

If you're a neuropsychologist, you could:

• investigate the impact of injury or illness on patients' behaviour
• make rehabilitation and treatment recommendations
• look to improve patients' health and quality of life

You could work in an NHS or private hospital, at a school, in a therapy clinic, in the community or at a client's business.

Your working environment may be emotionally demanding.

As your career develops, you could specialise within your branch of psychology, for example:forensic or criminal psychology; clinical psychology; sports and exercise psychology

You could also take on a research project, leading to a PhD qualification, and combine this with university teaching.