How to Become a Family Counselor

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Dr. Laura Grashow, a Licensed Psychologist with drgrashow.com. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about how to become a family counselor. There are multiple roads to working with families. One is through psychology; one is through marriage and family therapy. There are master's degrees. There are doctoral degrees. But basically when you're interested in working with families, what you're really looking at is you're looking at a whole system. You're not necessarily just working with one person at all, but you're looking at all the multiple relationships between people in a system; whether that's a family with children or in more extended family or a couple and you're looking at the relationship there. So people who are interested in working with families again, they're not just working with an individual. They're really looking at symptoms in individual, in individuals as coming about on the basis of relationships and patterns of relationships in families and in couples. And again, there are many ways to go into this; via psychology, via marriage and family therapy and again, there are master's; you can get a master's degree or you can get a doctoral degree to do this kind of work."