Bereavement counselor vs graduate clinician

The differences between bereavement counselors and graduate clinicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a bereavement counselor and a graduate clinician. Additionally, a bereavement counselor has an average salary of $64,298, which is higher than the $61,509 average annual salary of a graduate clinician.

The top three skills for a bereavement counselor include social work, patients and mental health. The most important skills for a graduate clinician are motor speech disorders, patients, and autism.

Bereavement counselor vs graduate clinician overview

	Bereavement Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Yearly salary	$64,298	$61,509
Hourly rate	$30.91	$29.57
Growth rate	4%	21%
Number of jobs	29,323	29,255
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 53%	Bachelor's Degree, 79%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	4	4

Bereavement counselor vs graduate clinician salary

Bereavement counselors and graduate clinicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Bereavement Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Average salary	$64,298	$61,509
Salary range	Between $51,000 And $79,000	Between $43,000 And $87,000
Highest paying City	-	-
Highest paying state	-	-
Best paying company	-	-
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Differences between bereavement counselor and graduate clinician education

There are a few differences between a bereavement counselor and a graduate clinician in terms of educational background:

	Bereavement Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 53%	Bachelor's Degree, 79%
Most common major	Psychology	Communication Disorders Sciences
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Boston University

Bereavement counselor vs graduate clinician demographics

Here are the differences between bereavement counselors' and graduate clinicians' demographics:

	Bereavement Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 25.3% Female, 74.7%	Male, 8.6% Female, 91.4%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.3% Unknown, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 3.2% White, 67.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 11.3% Unknown, 5.9% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 3.2% White, 67.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	15%	15%

Differences between bereavement counselor and graduate clinician duties and responsibilities

Bereavement counselor example responsibilities.

Manage a caseload of individuals in programs design to provide vocational rehabilitation and other services to the developmentally disable.
Provide individual/family/group counseling and psycho-educational programs for a diverse population of hospice patients, families and couples.
Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals to provide counseling support for terminally ill patients and their families.
Provide individual assessments, treatment planning and psychotherapy services to culturally diverse adult female population in need of rehabilitation services.
Collaborate with peers in leadership capacity at recreational summer camp leading, coordinating and organizing daily activities and weekly field trips.

Graduate clinician example responsibilities.

Learned different therapeutic techniques by working with individuals with communication disorders including: receptive and expressive language disorders and aphasia.
Provide assessment and intervention for adults with a variety of developmental disorders, acquire communication disorders, and dysphagia.
Plan activities for expressive language disorders, articulation, phonological processes, literacy, phonological awareness, fluency, and autism.
Serve individuals with aphasia by administering assessments that addressed cognitive/language deficits and providing language therapy in both individual and group settings.
Work with patients in an acute-care setting under the direct supervision of Kristen Higgins M.A, CCC-SLP.
Evaluate and treat tracheostomy and ventilator patients for speaking valve placement.

Bereavement counselor vs graduate clinician skills

Common bereavement counselor skills

Social Work, 34%
Patients, 24%
Mental Health, 5%
Community Resources, 4%
Medicare, 3%
Bereavement Services, 3%

Common graduate clinician skills

Motor Speech Disorders, 16%
Patients, 11%
Autism, 10%
Dysphagia, 7%
Group Therapy Sessions, 4%
Traumatic Brain Injury, 4%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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