Experience in counseling often comes from informal friendships and relationships that can form in nearly any volunteer opportunity. The organizations on this list have counseling as a core element of their mission. Students interested in the clergy, mental health fields, education, special education, working with individuals with developmental disabilities, elderly services, medicine, or any other human or social service field will likely find opportunities to pursue an interest in counseling with the organizations included in this list.

Students interested relating the work of these organizations to their academics may find direct connections with Psychology, Neuroscience, Sociology/Anthropology, Teacher Education, Religion, Philosophy, and Women’s & Gender Studies.

Addison County Court Diversion and Community Justice Projects, Inc.

Department of Corrections

Middlebury United Methodist Church

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont

St. Mary's Outreach Ministry

Turningpoint Center in Addison County

WomenSafe