How to become a Counsellor
Official title: Counsellor (rehabilitation)
Also called: Parole officer, Rehabilitation counsellor, Parole officer, Rehabilitation counsellor
Counsellor (rehabilitation) counsels individuals to maximise the independence and employability of persons coping with personal and social difficulties that result from birth defects, illnesses, diseases, accidents, aging or the stress of daily life. He/she coordinates activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. He/she also assesses clients’ needs and, designs and implements rehabilitation programmes that may include personal counselling and training.
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
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Counsellor?
Ways in include: Social Work & Community degrees.
Will AI change the work of a Counsellor?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- 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