CAREER

OPPORTUNITIES
FOR COUNSELORS
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
 Career opportunities for counselors cover corporate
environment in:
 Human resources departments
 School Student Services Departments
 Academe
 NGO’s
 Detention and Prison Setting
EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOOL
COUNSELORS
They offer personal, educational, social, and
academic counseling services.
VOCATIONAL OR CAREER
COUNSELOR
 These professionals facilitate career decision making. They aid
individual or groups in determining jobs that are best needs,
skills and interests.
 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
COUNSELORS
 These professionals offer a wide range of services of couples
and families. They help couples and families deals with social
issues, emotional problems and in some cases, mental heath
treatment.
 ADDICTIONS AND
BEHAVIOURAL COUNSELORS
 These professionals work with people suffering from addictions like:
Drugs Alcohol

Gambling Eating Disorder and Sex

 MENTAL HEALTH
COUNSELOR
 These professionals work with people suffering from mental or
psychological distress such as anxiety, phobias, depression,
grief, esteem issues, trauma, substance abuse and related
issues.
 In treatment center or facilities,
counselors have physicians,
psychologists, social worker
and other health care professionals
as their
treatment team.
REHABILITATION
COUNSELOR
 These professionals are engaged with individuals suffering
form physical or emotional disabilities that may affect their
family, social, school or work life.
 They can provide effective case management support that may
include, but not limited to, arranging for medical care,
vocational training and even job placement.
 This group of professional can help in making the individual
who is injured transition back in workforce.
 GENETIC COUNSELORS
 These professionals operate in a very specialized context
dealing with genetic information for individuals and the
decisions that come with it.
 The common area here is counseling parents who are
concerned with determining if their potential offspring might
be at risk for being born with inherited disorder or even the
adults themselves who may be at risk of developing genetic
disease.
 This type of professionals work as a group or team that
composed of doctors. Geniticists, nurses and social workers.