Career options (Australia)

Hey friends!
Long, long time lurker here; first time typing. I’m sorry for the long message. This is a mix of voice typing and typed out thoughts that I’ve had for a little while now and I just would love some community feedback or input.

I’m a behaviour support practitioner in Australia under the NDIS. I love what I do and how I do it. I’ve recently also finished a career goal of mine and finished my bachelor of social science (psychology) also and am looking at the level 2 study routes.

I am seeking some advice with sort of what my next path would be. For context, I’m 33.
I’ve long wanted to be a psychologist. I ended up in the tech space the last 10 years and before that a real estate agent as a dropout from university when I went in for psychology pretty much straight after high school with pretty decent grades.
Long story short there was some issues that occurred with my son medically that sort of made me want to realise my dream and finish off my credentials and get into the mental health space.
I’m at a crossroads right now as a behaviour support practitioner. My BSP supervisor and boss is also a registered psychologist so he can and would do supervision 12 months from now once I finish my honours.

I get married next year and I am really torn on the viability of me being able to do a thesis a part of the level two study for psychology. I feel as if I have a lot of things going on and while I do want to finish and keep progressing if I fail at the thesis I’m gonna be feeling how I am now and back to effectively where I started. I’ve come across masters of counselling and psychotherapy through various universities and I’m eligible with my current GPA to go through them.
Pivoting into counselling and psychotherapy and being a direct therapist versus a psychologist, is a bit different for me and it is enticing considering I would still be able to help folks help them work through problems and conduct the therapeutic side of the job.
The thing that is concerning is that I wouldn’t be able to do assessments or anything else like that; I would have to rely on people with pre-existing conditions or diagnosis to come into whatever clinic I’m at or my current job and be able to treat them.

To me right now as the NDIS currently stands this is not a huge thing being able to act as a counsellor under the NDIS as well as a behaviour. Support practitioner is enticing but I know a lot of the legislation is changing and things could be completely different one year or two years from now.
Right now I have a mix of a child caseload and a forensic caseload all of which my manager has provided to me through either referrals and they’ve come from a paediatrician or an existing clinical psychologist and have been formally diagnosed. So to me getting the masters degree would just be compounding on all of the skills I have right now and being able to sort of be a better version of what I am as a behaviour support practitioner and then being a counsellor.
Whereas if I finish my level two psychology work and then go into a massive psychology I would effectively be able to be all of that but the concern is then comes back to am I mentally and physically ready for the strenuous work that is involved in a level two honest thesis in Australia?
I have a family and a very supportive wife, but I know I burnt myself out very heavily in my old job in the tech space and I’m very mindful about doing that again.
I care a lot about my clients and they deserve to see the best version of me not a burnt out version of me although I know deepdown there’s a voice in my head that would say hey are you really doing psychology or are you really kicking those goals?

I know under the universities what the coursework and the study is like for the masters of counselling and psychotherapy and I’d be very keen to go through. It march out the other side in two years become a registered counsellor under the associated bodies in Australia and then I would be open to potentially doing my honours later. Age is not a problem for me and I’m very happy with how I’m working and what I’m doing and I feel as if levelling myself up especially in the cost-of-living crisis that were currently in would be the best move.

I’m stuck in a back-and-forth crossroads and I do probably need to make a decision in the next month but I’m going to do. I have offers from universities for both honours level degrees as well as the masters of psychotherapy and counselling degrees so I need to make a decision because they all kickoff in January.

What would you do if you were in my position?