How to Become a Marriage and Family Therapist
A lot of students are learning more and more on how to become family therapy counselors. The reason for this is that there is an increase demand for the job and there are a lot of rewards in choosing this career. Nowadays, many families are faced with a lot of problems that include emotional problems, difficulty in dealing with children’s behavior and unhealthy family behaviors. This is where the family therapy counselor comes in to play. If you have enough information about the career, then you are on your way to become a family therapist. All that has remained is learn how to become one.
The first step in becoming a family therapy counselor (den bedste psykoterapeut is the term we use in Denmark) is to get the required level of education that you need so as to you move to the next level of certification. The requirements are that you get a bachelor degree first in a course that is related to psychology and the thereafter complete a masters degree in family and marriage counseling. Studying for the whole thing takes approximately 6-7 years, but the good thing is that once you are completed with the course, you will now be an expert in areas such as development, psychology, group therapy, marriage, human growth and psychotherapy, theories of counseling, sexuality family systems and substance abuse.
After you have gotten all the degrees that you need in order to become a marriage and family therapy (in Denmark it’s called effektive parterapi) counselor and has acquired a license, the next stage is now focusing on doing supervised internship as a family counselor. The period that one takes to complete this internship is approximately 4-6 months, after that you can work in the field expecting a minimum salary of approximately forty five thousand dollars, with time you will be getting around fifty four thousand dollars to even sixty eight thousand dollars.
By becoming a marriage and family therapy counselor, you will be dealing with problems such as depression, adolescent behavior, marital problems, grief, violence, infertility, substance abuse and infidelity. It ought to be noted that becoming counselor is a very important job and will always be on demand as long as families continue to exist. If you really want to become a marriage and family counselor, it is very necessary to enroll in a certified university or college so as to achieve your credentials. You need to be sure that the college is certified otherwise you will end up wasting your time as you will not be allowed to practice.
You need to have a passion for the job otherwise you will be bored to death and you will not even be able to help the people that come to you. First of all you need to exercise patients, it is a fact that it can be hard to just sit down and listen to people’s problem. You might even sometimes be irritated for that matter. Becoming a family therapy counselor is all about patience, understanding, passion and humanity. It is never easy to make somebody see the sense out of something if you cannot do so.
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