I am currently pursuing my bachelors in Family and Consumer Science with a concentration in Human Development and a minor in Psychology. The reason I am not getting my B.S in psychology is because I am a transfer student and that program wouldn't accept hardly any of my credits. After I get my bachelors I planned on going to get my masters in Counseling. However I really want to become a Psychologist and I know that I have to have my PhD for that. Would I be able to get my PhD in Psychology after having a masters in Counseling, or should I just get my masters in psychology and then straight to my PhD in psychology? I really wanted to have a break between my masters and my PhD to start a family and do other things, but if I have to put that on hold I will.

Which country are you posting from, Kayla? Assuming you're talking about being a clinical psychologist (I'm basing that assumption on the fact that you want to do counselling, rather than a research Masters, for example), in the UK people tend to do a Clinical Psychology Doctorate for that rather than a PhD. There may be someone on this forum who can give you more detailed information than I can, but as clinical psychology is a highly competitive field, my advice would be to get some careers advice (or speak to someone who teaches clinical psychology) to get an accurate picture of the progression you need.

Chickpea,
I am posting from the United States. I am still trying to decide if I want to do research psychology or clinical psychology but my advisor told me that either way I have to do to a doctorate level of education. Thank you for your help, I really didn't know where to go to get information and my advisor is really busy this semester so I cannot talk to her. I appreciate your input.

sounds like you would be better off with a masters in psych, but you should probably speak to a careers' adviser at your school.

Hi Kayla
I'm doing a PhD in Psychology and the Masters I did was in Psychological Research Methods. Fellow students did an MRes - I think a Masters with a big research methods focus is a help if you want to go in the research psychology direction (in the UK, at least). I know less about clinical psychology, but as it's a different kind of doctorate (again speaking from UK experience) I'd look for some specialist info as there may be a Masters that leads more directly into that.