Where can psychological counselors work and which units will accept them?

Professionally speaking, psychiatry and psychology are not the same thing. Psychiatry can only be science and engineering, involving biology and chemistry subjects, but also studying medicine and passing the doctor qualification examination, so the requirements are higher. Psychology is both liberal arts and sciences, but in fact it is mainly science. The content of psychology will involve psychometrics and behavioral psychology, which require experiments, so mathematics and physics are generally needed. In view of the fact that psychology is a wide-ranging subject, liberal arts students can still learn about the branches of psychology, such as social society contacting social psychology, law society contacting criminal psychology, and of course pedagogy and educational psychology.

I am a psychological counselor myself. The gap of psychological counselors in China is still very large. In terms of employment, in addition to psychological consulting companies, some hospitals will also set up psychological departments (don't get excited, usually for psychiatrists). In fact, there are many other fields, such as community social workers (social worker qualification examination), which provide services for left-behind children and the elderly in the community; After college students become school counselors, their psychological problems are more prominent; Enterprises and institutions are generally oriented to employees. Since the outbreak of Foxconn incident, enterprises have also attached great importance to psychological counseling for employees. In a word, the future is bright.

Some of the above are unprofessional or even fallacious, so you should distinguish them by yourself.