Mental Health Counselor
A healthcare professional specializing in outpatient mental health counseling.
About the profession
A healthcare professional specializing in outpatient mental health counseling.
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Based on the Mental Health Counselor role, here are the RIASEC personality types that tend to thrive in this career. While these alignments are common, individual success depends on motivation, skill development, and finding the right work environment.
Social
Helping, teaching, working with people
Investigative
Research, analysis, problem-solving
Conventional
Organizing, detail-oriented, structured
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💰 Pay for Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
BLS OEWS, May 2023The federal survey does not count this job title on its own — it is counted under Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (19-3033).
Half of U.S. workers in this occupation earn more than this, half earn less.
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