ABSTRACT
A teaching certificate is always valued in the school system, even if not required for a particular position. Time in the classroom adds credibility to your advice to teachers. Family therapists are relatively new to the multidisciplinary team, and we will need to explain ourself and our credentials. Some creative family therapists have entered the school system through peer counseling programs. Still others have become dually qualified, adding guidance counselor certification to their family therapy credentials. And finally, some family therapists are teachers and principals, and develop private therapy practices on the side, after their school working hours. Salaries are commensurate with other education professionals. One can build and operate a business on systems theories, consult various firms with increasing efficiency, reach the community, invent the next technological device, improve political administration, or envision and create a way to use systems theories that we have yet to hear or read about.
