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Last Update: 11/21/2025
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
70.9%
Median Score
Changing Fast
Evolving
Stable
What does this resilience result mean?
These roles are expected to remain steady over time, with AI supporting rather than replacing the core work.
AI Resilience Report for
Mental Health Counselors
They help people manage their feelings and challenges by listening, offering advice, and teaching coping strategies to improve their mental well-being.
Summary
A career as a mental health counselor is labeled "Stable" because the core of the job—providing empathy, building trust, and handling crisis situations—requires a human touch that AI can't fully replicate. While AI helps with tasks like note-taking and reminders, it can't replace the human connection essential for effective therapy.
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A career as a mental health counselor is labeled "Stable" because the core of the job—providing empathy, building trust, and handling crisis situations—requires a human touch that AI can't fully replicate. While AI helps with tasks like note-taking and reminders, it can't replace the human connection essential for effective therapy.
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AI Resilience
All scores are converted into percentiles showing where this career ranks among U.S. careers. For models that measure impact or risk, we flip the percentile (subtract it from 100) to derive resilience.
CareerVillage.org's AI Resilience Analysis
AI Task Resilience
Stable83.5%
83.5%
Anthropic's Economic Index
AI Resilience
Changing fast5.3%
5.3%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Stable98.7%
98.7%
High Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
10.4%
Growth Percentile:
93.0%
Annual Openings:
104.4
Annual Openings Pct:
88.9%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Mental Health Counselors
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 11/21/2025
State of Automation & Augmentation
Right now, AI is mostly a helper in counseling work. Administrative tasks like writing session notes and tracking meds see the most tech use. For example, many clinics use electronic health records and even AI “scribe” tools to transcribe appointments automatically [1] [2].
Wearable devices and smart pill boxes are also being used to remind patients and record when they take medicine [3] [3]. In fact, a 2025 trial showed a smart pill dispenser plus app greatly improved medication adherence in serious mental illness [3]. Reviews note most mental health AI tools today focus on monitoring and support (like symptom tracking and reminders) rather than doing therapy itself [3] [3].
In contrast, core counseling tasks still need a human touch. Crisis intervention and therapy rely on empathy and trust, which AI can’t fully provide [1] [4]. Chatbots like Woebot can offer exercises or basic help, but experts warn they are not a substitute for real counselors, especially in emergencies [4] [1].
In practice, even innovations like an AI training bot for crisis counselors (used by the Trevor Project) are meant to support human trainees [5]. In short, AI today augments tasks like note-taking and reminders, while people still handle therapy, crisis talks, and learning.
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AI Adoption
Several factors shape how quickly AI tools are used. On one hand, many people have smartphones and internet access, so apps and online tools can spread easily [3] [3]. There’s also a big need for mental health care (researchers note a shortage of counselors globally [5]), so affordable tech could help more people get support.
Indeed, guides from groups like McKinsey and Google encourage using AI in community mental health to train providers and reduce costs [5] [5]. Studies suggest well-designed digital tools can reach lots of patients cheaply, improving engagement and tracking symptoms [3] [3]. In theory, this could free counselors for the human parts of their job.
On the other hand, there are reasons adoption is cautious. Privacy and ethics are big worries: patients expect confidentiality, and some worry AI might misuse personal data [3] [4]. Regulators are still figuring out how to oversee mental health AI (some states have even banned AI therapy apps).
So far, reports find AI scribes help reduce clinician burnout but haven’t yet shown big cost savings for clinics [2]. Plus, many people simply prefer talking to a trusted person. Experts note that therapy works best with human empathy [1] [4].
Because of this, counselors today mostly use AI to save time on paperwork and reminders, not to replace their human skills.
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Employment & Wage Data
* Data estimated from parent occupation
Median Wage
$60,200
Jobs (2024)
1,098,600
Growth (2024-34)
+10.4%
Annual Openings
104,400
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
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Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.
2
Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems.
3
Counsel clients or patients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.
4
Act as client advocates to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
5
Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.
6
Collaborate with other staff members to perform clinical assessments or develop treatment plans.
7
Meet with families, probation officers, police, or other interested parties to exchange necessary information during the treatment process.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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