Is French needed to work as a Psychologist?

[patricia_parra]

My husband and I want to move to Montreal in a couple of Years. I work in IT and I am learning French, So I am good.
But he is graduating in Psychology and he has a hard time learning new languages (I am Brazilian and in all our years together he learned very little Portuguese).
SO is the Mental Health are an area where he can work with English only?

[m0lt]

If he wants to get a job then it would probably be tougher, as most places would legally require French. But if he wants to have a private practice focusing on the English-speaking community, then it should be fine. There are a lot of English speakers here.

[Francois_Paradis]

Hi Patricia,

Because the rights granted by the Quebec Government to its English-speaking minority guarantee that anglophones have access to medical services in their own language, the Health Ministry maintains in the province dozens of institutions which are nominally English, most of which are located in Montreal. Whether in an institutional setting or in private practice, when consulting a medical professional, the patients always decide what language is used. As a result, anglophone psychologists in Montreal can draw from a pool of several hundred thousand potential patients to build their practice.

However, the crucial element to take into account in your husband's situation is that the professional corporation which regulates the practice in Quebec does not necessarily grant a license to an applicant when his or her psychology diploma was earned overseas. Please click here to find out more.

Regards,

François

[Jean-Sebastien_Lessa]

In lot level I am not sure that you could be a practicing but you could easily find a job in teaching maybe in Concordia or McGill University. I don't know the specific related to job in psychology because in Quebec they are group like the college des medecins; to have a concret answer you might want to look into which group regulate psychology in Québec.