How do they match: Marriage and Family Therapists

  • Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.
  • Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.
  • Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
  • Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.
  • Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.