If you enjoy listening to other people and helping them work out solutions to a wide range of modern life challenges, counselling is one of the most rewarding careers around.

There has been significant growth in the field of counselling over the past decade, and potential career prospects are positive.

Many people become counsellors after working in other fields. Combining your own life experience with the professional communication and counselling skills you gain at ACAP will place you in good stead to enter the profession.

Depending on the counselling qualification you select you may find work in public, private or not-for-profit organisations as a:

• Community welfare worker
• Case manager
• Community services manager or program co-ordinator
• Careers counsellor
• Child and youth worker
• Counsellor specialising in addictions, bereavement and loss, migrant services, or relationships, or
• Child protection caseworker