what exactly is a MFT?

Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) are relationship specialists who treat persons involved in interpersonal relationships. They are trained to assess, diagnose and treat individuals, couples, families and groups to achieve more adequate, satisfying and productive marriage, family and social adjustment. The practice also includes premarital counseling, child counseling, (the one that interests me the most) divorce or separation counseling and other relationship counseling. Marriage and Family Therapists are psychotherapists and healing arts practitioners licensed by the State of California. Requirements for a license include a related doctoral or two-year master's degree, passage of a comprehensive written and oral examination and at least 3,000 hours of supervised experience. that is a lot of hours, let me see that is about 125 days which equals to about 4 months give or take. i am sure it will be worth it though because you gain a lot of experience and gets you ready for the job market. it the next posting I want to find out about schools that offer a masters in MFT to see if any of them sound interesting enough for me to try to apply for.