No offence intended but many people who become counsellors bring a lot of their own baggage to the table. If you are serious then you should take the time (years) to get a general degree and then specialise in marriage counselling. As a counsellor you have to be in a position to offer constructive impartial advice but you also have to be able to pick up other underlying problems, which may require medical attention. In these cases you also have to know how to refer your client on.I recently have been going through some marriage difficulties, but with the help of marriage councelling, I can see a future in this marriage again, I have now become interested in the marriage councelling as a job, does anybody know what path I must follow
The whole area of amateur, untrained and/or what I would term "dodgy training course" counsellors is a serious problem for those who are unfortunate enough to use these so-called counsellors.
To the OP, I would say, be very very careful of what you are doing if you follow this route. If you make mistakes in the advice and guidance you give, you will unwittingly and unintentionally (but inevitably) harm people, and you might end up ruining their lives. This is one area of life that is best left to the professionals - whatever their own faults, at least they are legally and professionally accountable for their actions and advice.
That is what they should do but it is not what always happens.Number one, as far as I know counsellors do not give advice, they are a sounding board for their clients and the clients makes his/her own decisions and choices.