How to become a Counsellor

Official title: Counsellor (family)

Also called: Family case worker, Family counsellor, Family planning counsellor, Marriage counsellor, Ÿ Family case worker, Ÿ Family planning counsellor

Counsellor (family) provides counselling for individuals, couples and families facing challenges in their relationships. This can include marriage, divorce, parent-child and issues amongst siblings or extended family members.​

Main tasks

• Interviewing clients, preparing case histories and assessing problems
• Providing counselling, therapy and mediation services and facilitating group sessions to assist clients to develop skills and insights needed to deal with and resolve their social and personal problems
• Liaising with social service agencies, educational institutions and healthcare providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients’ overall situation and progress, and identify additional or alternative services and provide referrals
• Evaluating the effectiveness of counselling programmes and interventions, and clients’ progress in resolving identified problems and movement toward defined objectives

Ways in

• University: Social Work & Community degrees, Offered by 1 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $52,200 a year. The middle half earn $44,400 to $63,600 a year.
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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• Counsellor (rehabilitation)
• Counsellor (drugs/alcohol)
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Questions people ask

How do I become a Counsellor?

Ways in include: Social Work & Community degrees.

How much does a Counsellor earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $52,200 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $44,400 to $63,600.

Will AI change the work of a Counsellor?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026