psychologist

Psychologists study the behaviour and mental processes in humans. They provide services to clients who deal with mental health issues and life issues such as bereavement, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. They also provide counselling for mental health issues such as eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and psychosis in order to help the clients rehabilitate and reach a healthy behaviour.

The most in-demand skills for this role include counselling methods, psychological diagnostics, body language, health care occupation-specific ethics, client-centred counselling, consultation. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives psychologist a score of 0.45 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.