Marriage & Family Counseling

http://www.allpsychologyschools.com/faqs/marriage-and-family-counseling.php

A Career as a Marriage and Family Therapist

http://www.aamft.org/resources/Career_PracticeInformation/career.htm

I am not familiar with the details of counseling through religious organizations and personnel. If you have a career counseling center on campus, that might be a good place to start.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

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If you live in California (which is one of the strictest states) then you have to complete 3000 hours clinical work before you can get licensed. Pastors can do some counseling because the licensing is different for them as is for drug and alcohol counselors as well. The benefit of getting licensed is that you can have your practice and generally speaking, licensed therapists make more money. Keep in mind: Pastors can generally only provide low-level counseling, can’t open up a practice and getting a job with that type of degree will be very difficult. You can work as a Marriage and Family Therapist, for someone else (such as a clinic, a business, governement) but you only have 6 years after you get your intern number to get licensed. FYI…Oregon only requires 500 hours to get licensed.