Also called: Certified Poetry Therapist, Bibliotherapist
Uses poems, stories, and journaling to help people work through grief, trauma, or illness in hospitals, schools, and clinics.
A poetry therapist reads a short poem with a grief group at a hospice, then asks each person to write a few lines about someone they lost. Later they meet a teen in a treatment program who uses journaling to put feelings into words.
Approximate; most combine it with a counseling license.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Usually a counseling or social work master's plus poetry therapy training.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, Certification. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Psychology, Social Work, English.
Growing about average. Small but steady interest in expressive therapies.
Low risk for 10 years. Healing work with groups depends on trust; AI chat can't hold the room.
Classes: Creative writing, Psychology, English literature.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1129.
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