2. How to become a Family Therapist Step 1- Go to the right college topursuethe degree that you need. Step 2-Get the degree and start to look for job opportunities. Step 3-Get a job in the field you want. Step 4-Start to help the people and apply what you learned.
3. An average day for a family therapist Most days you would probably get to your office and go through your schedule to see if you have any appointments then you would do whatever paperwork you would have and after that you would probably review your client information and finish any work you have for the rest of the day.
4. Definition of the job A family therapist is a therapist that deals with families that need a mediator to talk between themselves. A family therapist also talks to the individual family members and then the family as a group.
5. Salary, Benefits, Employment outlook The average salary for family therapists is 49,020 in 2009. The benefits of the job would be that you get the opportunity to help people. The employment outlook for the job is pretty good it is a slightly expanding profession.
6. Other Job Opportunities Once you have been a Family Therapist you can move on to become most other types of counselors on lower or higher levels of the scale. Also once you have been a Family Therapist you have good people skills so you can most likely work in any relations job.
7. Advantages of being a family Therapist One of the advantages of being a Family counselor is that you get to help people and if your in that career that is probably what you are there for and you probably get a feeling of satisfaction after you know that you have improved the life of another person. Another advantage is that it is not very physically taxing job and it pays pretty well and you will always learn things while you have this job.
