Grief Counselor
Impact: Direct Individual
Provide emotional support and guidance to individuals and families coping with loss and grief, helping clients navigate the grieving process, develop coping strategies, and find healthy ways to remember their loved ones.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Extensive
- Team vs solo
- Primarily solo with team collaboration
- Client facing
- Always
- Impact visibility
- High
- Travel
- Low
- Schedule flexibility
- Moderate
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 40
- Stress level
- High
At a glance
- Median salary
- $60,000
- Entry-level
- $45,000
- Senior
- $80,000
- Growth by 2033
- Above Average
- Demand
- Growing
- Freelance potential
- High
- Salary growth potential
- Medium
- Typical student debt
- $40,000 - $80,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Counseling Techniques
- Crisis Intervention
- Therapeutic Modalities
- Case Management
- Documentation
Soft skills
- Empathy
- Active Listening
- Communication
- Emotional Intelligence
- Patience
Technical complexity: Low
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Master's Degree
- Licensing
- Yes
- Years to mid-career
- 5
- Years to senior
- 10
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical Supervisor, Private Practice Owner, Educator
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- Low
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Growing
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 4/10
- Meaning
- 4/10
- Work-life balance
- 3.5/10
- Prestige
- 7/10
- Social perception
- High