From my personal experience, if you want to be a psychological counselor, Beijing is undoubtedly better than Shanghai. Although I am in Shanghai.
First of all, there are more consultants in Beijing than in Shanghai. Compared with the actual quantity, it is absolutely dominant. In addition, Beijing's overall social atmosphere and emphasis on culture and economy are better than Shanghai's. Because Shanghai is positioned as a financial city and a commercial city, basically no one will think that Shanghai is a cultural city. Cultural atmosphere such as social science and humanities has a great influence on psychological counseling itself.
But to be honest, this is not absolute.
Even if Shanghai psychological counseling is not so good, on the other hand, it can really temper the inner strength of a psychological practitioner to accept and overcome difficulties. These are just indispensable internal forces to help visitors get out of their inner difficulties. Moreover, psychological counseling or therapy has always been based on helping others to help themselves, which means that adversity is really an external environment to test anyone. It is the power of psychotherapy to finally take visitors out by coordinating and solving and overcoming transcendence in the situation between people and their surroundings.
Moreover, this kind of power will definitely affect visitors' hearts, reality, work and life at all levels.
Therefore, my point of view is clear. If we want to say which city can develop better, this good standard is actually different.
If it goes well, going to Beijing will naturally go smoothly. If you want to exercise your consulting ability and become a qualified psychological counselor, then Beijing and Shanghai can do it. From a broader perspective, the psychological counselors who really survive in Shanghai may have better personal abilities than Beijing.
This is the same as the scale and quantity of collective action can determine victory in a war environment. However, in different combat environments, the arms that are used to fighting alone are absolutely superior to any individual soldier in group combat in terms of comprehensive individual soldier ability. Because if you are not strong, you will die.
Finally, psychological counseling itself is similar to medicine.
For example, when we go to the hospital, others are used to looking for old experts. In fact, we usually prescribe drugs, and there is little difference between daily disease experts and ordinary doctors, or even no difference. Because everyone can and must act according to science. But for some intractable diseases that need careful identification, the old experts can see the difference and treat them dialectically at this time. Moreover, because ordinary doctors have not been exposed to it, they naturally will not cure or cure mistakes.
Therefore, your better development may really need to be comprehensively considered from multiple angles, and then choose the way that suits your own development. From the novice's point of view, in fact, any city has a better development. The key is that when your ability and strength are reached, it is no longer a problem.
Personally, I suggest going to Beijing first. This business is too stressful, few people can go on, and countless people have been killed. As far as I know, there are tens of thousands of graduates in Shanghai. At present, no more than 150 people can survive in the real clinical front line.
Good wishes!