该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 采访客户，准备案例历史并评估问题
• 制定和实施咨询和干预计划，以帮助客户确定目标和实现目标的方法
• 为客户提供咨询，提供治疗和调解服务，并促进小组会议
• 与社区机构或合作伙伴联络，确定额外或替代服务并提供转介
• 评估咨询计划和干预措施的有效性，以及客户在解决已确定问题和朝着既定目标迈进方面的进展
• 跟进辅导计划的结果和客户的调整
• 准备评估、进展、跟进和法庭报告
• 可以监督其他辅导员、社会服务人员和助理
• 可以就咨询服务、问题和方法向其他专业人士或团体提供公共教育和咨询
• 可在法庭程序中提供证人证词
• 可以进行研究、发表研究论文、教育文本和文章，并在会议上发表演讲
• 可能与员工援助计划或政府组织在健康和安全方面或与犯罪受害者合作
• 可以参加筹款活动。

• 需要咨询、治疗、心理健康、心理学或相关社会服务学科领域的学士或硕士学位，并且可能需要一段时间与客户进行受监督的临床工作。
• 艺术治疗师、音乐治疗师和舞蹈治疗师需要治疗领域的硕士学位。
• 雇主通常要求成为省级或联邦协会的会员。
• 在新斯科舍省和新不伦瑞克省，咨询治疗师需要在监管机构注册。
• 要进行心理治疗，在魁北克需要许可证，在安大略需要在适当的监管机构注册。
• 在魁北克，婚姻和家庭治疗师、心理教育师、性学家和犯罪学家需要在监管机构注册。

• 咨询治疗师通常通过不断的培训和经验成为特定领域的专家。
• 通过额外的培训和经验，有可能晋升到社会服务管理职位。

• 教育顾问 ( 41320)
• 职业发展从业者和职业顾问（教育除外）（41321）
• 运动机能学家和治疗和评估方面的其他专业职业（31204）
• 社会、社区和惩教服务经理（40030）
• 社会和社区服务工作者（42201）
• 社会工作者（41300）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Interview clients, prepare case histories and assess problems
• Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
• Counsel clients, provide therapy and mediation services, and facilitate group sessions
• Liaise with community agencies or partners, and identify additional or alternative services and provide referrals
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions, and clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement toward defined objectives
• Follow up on results of counselling programs and clients' adjustments
• Prepare assessment, progress, follow-up and court reports
• May supervise other counsellors, social service staff and assistants
• May provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counselling services, issues and methods
• May provide witness testimony in court proceedings
• May conduct research, publish research papers, educational texts and articles and deliver presentations at conferences
• May collaborate with employee assistance programs or with government organizations in health and safety or with victims of crime
• May participate in fundraising activities.

• A bachelor's or a master's degree in the field of counselling, therapy, mental health, psychology or a related social service discipline is required and a period of supervised clinical work with clients may be required.
• A master’s degree in the field of therapy is required for art therapist, music therapist, and dance therapists.
• Membership with a provincial or federal association is usually required by employers.
• Registration with a regulatory body is required in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for counselling therapists.
• To practise psychotherapy, a permit is required in Quebec and registration with the appropriate regulatory body is required in Ontario.
• In Quebec, registration with a regulatory body is required for marriage and family therapists, psychoeducators and sexologists and criminologists.

• Counselling therapists usually become specialized in a particular area through continual training and experience.
• Progression to social service management positions is possible with additional training and experience.

• Educational counsellors (41320)
• Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education) (41321)
• Kinesiologists and other professional occupations in therapy and assessment (31204)
• Managers in social, community and correctional services (40030)
• Social and community service workers (42201)
• Social workers (41300)