Phone counselor vs graduate clinician

The differences between phone 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 phone counselor and a graduate clinician. Additionally, a graduate clinician has an average salary of $61,509, which is higher than the $38,285 average annual salary of a phone counselor.

The top three skills for a phone counselor include social work, crisis calls and crisis planning. The most important skills for a graduate clinician are motor speech disorders, patients, and autism.

Phone counselor vs graduate clinician overview

	Phone Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Yearly salary	$38,285	$61,509
Hourly rate	$18.41	$29.57
Growth rate	9%	21%
Number of jobs	75,943	29,255
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 79%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	4	4

Phone counselor vs graduate clinician salary

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

	Phone Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Average salary	$38,285	$61,509
Salary range	Between $30,000 And $47,000	Between $43,000 And $87,000
Highest paying City	-	-
Highest paying state	-	-
Best paying company	-	-
Best paying industry	-	-

Differences between phone counselor and graduate clinician education

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

	Phone Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 68%	Bachelor's Degree, 79%
Most common major	Psychology	Communication Disorders Sciences
Most common college	California State University - Long Beach	Boston University

Phone counselor vs graduate clinician demographics

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

	Phone Counselor	Graduate Clinician
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 23.4% Female, 76.6%	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 phone counselor and graduate clinician duties and responsibilities

Phone counselor example responsibilities.

Manage a caseload of individuals in programs design to provide vocational rehabilitation and other services to the developmentally disable.
Provide individual assessments, treatment planning and psychotherapy services to culturally diverse adult female population in need of rehabilitation services.
Listen to clients' concerns about HIV/AIDS relate treatment.
Facilitate groups of children with ADHD and also a self-esteem group for adults.
Provide counseling for individuals, children and adults for depression, anxiety, ADHD, personality disorders and other behavioral disorders.
Specialize in individual, relationship, marital, custody, anxiety, depression, trauma resolution, and PTSD.

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.

Phone counselor vs graduate clinician skills

Common phone counselor skills

Social Work, 27%
Crisis Calls, 23%
Crisis Planning, 10%
Crisis Intervention, 9%
Suicide Prevention, 8%
Mental Illness, 5%

Common graduate clinician skills

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