I’m just about to graduate with a BSc in Psychology in Practice

A BSc in Psychology in Practice gets you started, not registered. The free step is checking your regulator's exact requirements; the paid steps are supervision and registration.

The records in front of me are about clinical training and counselling outcomes, not about accreditation routes, so I cannot verify any specific free scheme from them. What they do show is the shape of the problem. Brief workshop training does not make someone competent: after 30 to 35 hours of workshops, only 18% of trainees had used the intervention with three families, and only 30% met recall criteria for cognitive therapy [1]. Trainees badly overestimated themselves, with just 4% reporting difficulty while most failed the recall test [1]. Adding individual consultation helped only the cases actually discussed, and the effect did not generalise [1].

That matters for you because the cheap route into therapy is usually a short course, and short courses produce exactly this gap between confidence and competence [1]. Psychologists did recall cognitive and behavioural material better than nurses, so your degree is real leverage [1], but it is not the same as supervised practice.

My call: treat free courses as skills-building only, and put your money and hours into supervised practice and registration with your regulator, because the evidence shows brief training alone leaves a real competence gap [1]. Confidence: moderate on the training evidence, low on any specific free accreditation route, since these records do not cover licensing.