There is a worldwide need for counselors, so the location you choose depends mostly on your specialty and interest. Where you obtain a counselor job abroad will determine if you work in child development, with aging populations, in family services, or with victims of trauma.

India. India is rapidly growing and changing, and becoming more urbanized and the nation struggles to fill the demand for trained professional counselors in many ways. In sheer numbers, most counseling job opportunities in India are in schools, but there are also counseling jobs in hospitals, clinics, community centers, and centers for the aging. India is a very diverse place, and cultural norms, salaries, and working conditions vary widely across the country.

Africa & Latin America. These are two very culturally different locations with largely the same problem. Where the primary struggle is to fight disease and hunger, find clean water and enough food, or survive a civil war, the need for counseling is sometimes overlooked. Due to these combined societal issues, the opportunities for both counselor jobs and job satisfaction in these regions is often greater.

African countries, such as Liberia, where survivors and orphans of the recent and ongoing Ebola disease outbreak reside will continue to need counseling. While countries in other parts of Africa, especially South Africa, continue to deal with the HIV/AIDs epidemicl. In Rwanda trauma comes in the form of long-running genocidal civil wars that killed thousands, and nearly wiped out many cultural traditions, dialects, and indigenous histories. In Haiti, communities have been wracked by natural disasters and entrenched in poverty and social inequality, leading to an increase in the need for proper counseling services.

Asia & Oceania. There is a shortage of qualified counselors in New Zealand, because of the government's new emphasis on improving social services provided to the indigenous Māori people as well as the nation's children. Additionally, China also continues to increase its market for counselor jobs abroad. Like India, it is under rapid social change, and its need outstrips its supply of trained professionals.