Mental Health Counselor

Duties and Responsibilities: Mental Health Counselors work as primary mental health caregivers for their patients. Duties of a Mental Health Counselor include conducting mental health assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, leading individual or group therapy sessions, running preventative mental wellness classes or workshops and making treatment referrals.

Salary:  $ 41,500

Education: Master’s Degree

Demand For this profession: Employment of mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists is projected to grow 19 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one ? Why Why Not?

I would not like to become one because it's a lot of work and very low pay per year .