LPC-MHLicensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health · professional counselor
- LPC-MH: 2,000 hours of direct client contact postgraduate supervision (after the LPC's own 2,000 hours; up to 1,000 LPC direct hours may carry over)
- Supervision: 100 hours with a board-approved supervisor (≤50 may carry over from the LPC plan)
- Remote supervision: paperwork
- one thousand seven hundred hours of supervised experience in marriage and family therapy under a plan of supervision approved by the board
- Supervision: 100 hours with a board-approved supervisor; ≥5 hrs each of case staffing, direct observation, co-therapy, record review
- Remote supervision: paperwork
- two years of experience under appropriate supervision in the field of specialization (full-time ≥30 hrs/week; part-time 18-29 hrs/week takes 4 years)
- Supervision: Full-time: 4 hours individual per month (2 yrs); part-time 18-29 hrs/wk: 2 hours per month (4 yrs)
- Remote supervision: some limits
- Internship: ≥1,800 hours over ≤2 consecutive calendar years, completed before the degree; ≥25% direct client contact; ≥2 h/week individual supervision
- Postdoc required
- Remote supervision: some limits
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