Counseling is much like consulting business, but it deals with emotional pain. But anyone who has tried to quit smoking cigarettes knows how difficult it is to change your ways. From the working class to directors of programs at high levels of government. I have sat on committees and commissions with all sorts of people including Deaf, Hearing, people with other disabilities. There are many, and depends on you particular skills.
Some people are business consultants, some are computer or financial consultants.
Right now, the is an over supply of social workers looking for jobs due to a downsizing of the public sector, but It doesn't affect me so much because, as a deaf person, I offer a unique insight to accessibility issues. It's hard to say, but I think it will. At this moment, disability legislating Ontario is far behind the USA in terms of accessibility issues. Even if we passed an A.D.A. type law today, the need for advise with remain for a long time to come. For consulting, that depends on you personal field of interest.