Marriage and Family Therapists

Most exposed tasks

No task is classified fully automatable in this release. The highest-exposure task relative to this role is shown in the free snapshot above; the assistive work is detailed next.

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.65
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.45
• Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal, financial, and other personal issues.45

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

• Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.25
• Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.25
• Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary.25

Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 36 puts Marriage and Family Therapists in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 0 of 15 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 6 augmentable, and 9 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $66,940median wage
• 66,740employed
• 7,700annual openings
• +12.7%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers 38
• Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 35
• Child, Family, and School Social Workers 31
• Healthcare Social Workers 37
• Mental Health Counselor 32
• Rehabilitation Counselors 38

How this score was calculated

FAQ — Marriage and Family Therapists

Will AI replace Marriage and Family Therapists?

This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.

What does a score of 36 mean for a Marriage and Family Therapists?

It means that, weighted across the 15 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 36 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

This role has no strongly automatable task in the current data release.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The most durable responsibilities are: Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner; Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants; Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if necessary. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.