Marriage and Family Therapists
Job description
These individuals help clients identify, understand, and overcome their personal or relationship problems. They specialize in the treatment of particular groups or specific problems (consumption, marital problems, behaviour, etc.). The National Occupational Classification (NOC) includes psychoeducators and sexologists in this group. These individuals are self-employed or work in:
- Counselling centres
- Social service agencies
- Group homes
- Government agencies
- Family therapy centres
- Health care facilities
- Rehabilitation facilities
- Educational institutions
- Community environments
- Private environments
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Discuss with individuals and help them determine their goals and the means to achieve them.
- Assess problems and people’s success in solving them and progressing toward their goals.
- Provide therapy and mediation services.
- Facilitate group sessions.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs.
- Draft reports.
- Testify in court as an expert witness, as required.
- Conduct psychometric assessments.
- Supervise staff.
- Conduct research, publish educational texts and articles, and give lectures.
Psychoeducators
- Develop individualized or group intervention plans.
- Assess coping difficulties and adaptive abilities.
- Design programs to maintain or develop adaptive skills.
- Observe and analyze the person in interaction with their environment.
- Provide information to individuals on health promotion and prevention of illness, accidents, and social problems.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience and additional training are required to access management positions.
- Experience and additional training enable specialization.
Psychoeducators, Sexologists, and Marital and Family Therapists
- Permit issued by the Ordre des psychologues du Québec enables these individuals to bear the title of Psychotherapist and to practise Psychotherapy.
- Family mediation accreditation permit issued by the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (OTSTCFQ) enables Psychoeducators to use the title of Accredited Family Mediator.
Marriage and Family Therapists
- Possibility of practising family mediation provided that an accreditation in family mediation is obtained.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.- Minimum
- $23.00
- Median
- $34.00
- Maximum
- $45.22
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
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All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 82.4% Female
- 17.6% Male
- 82.4% Female
- 17.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 621, 622, 62352% of jobs
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NAICS 62427% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 816% of jobs
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NAICS 612% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
All of Québec
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NAICS 621, 622, 62352% of jobs
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NAICS 62427% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 816% of jobs
-
NAICS 612% of jobs
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Others5% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
University
Criminology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 73.6%
24.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 86.5%
10.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Guidance counselling or educational and vocational information
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 65.5%
30.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 95.2%
Psychoeducation
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 33.3%
64.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 91%
4.5% of graduates pursue further studies
Psychology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 35.3%
60.2% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 23.3%
69.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Sexology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 59.5%
35.7% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 80%
20% of graduates pursue further studies
Social work
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 88.8%
7.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 84.4%
9.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Period of supervised clinical work with clients.
Psychoeducators
- Membership in the Ordre des psychoéducateurs du Québec (Quebec Order of Psychoeducators).
Marital and Family Therapists
- Membership in the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec (OTSTCFQ [Quebec Order of Social Workers and Conjugal and Family Therapists]).
Sexologists
- Membership in the Ordre professionnel des sexologues du Québec (OPSQ [Quebec Order of Professional Sexologists]).
Sometimes required
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be required.
- Certification or diploma related to the duties of the position and industry sector, other than the training program related to the group, may be required or an asset.
- A graduate degree in a related discipline may be required or may be an asset.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence is often required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Active listening
- Data collection
- Social perception
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Service oriented
- Reading comprehension
- Written expression
- Critical thought
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Persuasion
- Active learning
- Negotiation
- Teaching
- Coordination
- Systems evaluation
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Operation analysis
- Time management
- Human resource management
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Classification
- Information organization
- Selective attention
- Near vision
- Information processing speed
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Versatility
- Sense of initiative
- Vitality
- Capacity to facilitate a group
- Knowledge of psychology
- Knowledge of therapy and counselling
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Assist and advise
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 4153
Family, marriage and other related counsellors
Job titles
- Psychoeducators
- Sexologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Human relations officer - family therapy
- Clinical counsellor
- Marriage counsellor
- Rehabilitation counsellor
- Human relations officer - family and children's services
- Registered clinical counsellor
- Family counsellor
- Special needs counsellor
- Child and youth counsellor
- Welfare organization counsellor
- Group home counsellor
- Grief counsellor
- Alcohol addiction counsellor
- Gambling addictions counsellor
- Genetic counsellor
- Crisis counsellor
- Family planning counsellor
- Preretirement counsellor
- Vocational rehabilitation counsellor
- Mental health counsellor
- Community mental health counsellor
- Drug addiction counsellor
- Children's counsellor
- Child and family counsellor
- Counsellor for persons who are intellectually impaired
- Behavioural consultant
- Disability consultant
- Psychoeducational consultant
- Sex therapist
- Counselling program supervisor
- Marriage therapist (mt)
- Couples therapist
- Gambling addictions therapist
- Eating disorder therapist
- Registered family therapist
- Family therapist
- Marriage and family therapist (mft)
- Marriage and family therapist
- Play therapist
- Zootherapist
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: March 27, 2023
