LPC Evaluation and Verification of Supervised Experience Form
LCPC Evaluation and Verification of Supervised Experience Form
MFT Evaluation and Verification of Supervised Experience Form
Q: What information should be on a Consent Form?
A: Please review the Informed Consent Guidelines.
Q: Will the Board issue a temporary license?
A: No. Temporary licenses are not issued.
Q: Will the Board pre-approve my courses before I apply for licensure?
A: No, the Board does not pre-approve coursework for licensure and will not review the course syllabi until the following is received:
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- A completed application including fees, official passing score for the National Counselor Exam (NCE) sent directly from the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC);
- official transcripts showing conferral of a degree in counseling, marriage and family therapy, or a closely related field;
- 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits in length and that at a minimum includes 1-year of an advanced counseling practicum with at least 280 hours of direct client contact and successful completion of one (1) graduate level course unique to the eight (8) CACREP areas in counseling education which are:
- Human growth and development: Includes studies that provide a broad understanding of the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels. Emphasis is placed on psychological, sociological, and physiological approaches. Also included are areas such as human behavior (normal and abnormal), personality theory, and learning theory.
- Social and cultural foundations: Includes studies of change, ethnic groups, subcultures, changing roles of women, sexism, urban and rural societies, population patterns, cultural mores, use of leisure time, and differing life patterns.
- The helping relationship: Includes philosophic bases of the helping relationship: Consultation theory and/or an emphasis on the development of counselor and client (or consultee) self-awareness and self-understanding.
- Groups: Includes theory and types of groups, as well as descriptions of group practices, methods dynamics, and facilitative skills. It includes either a supervised practice and/or a group experience.
- Lifestyle and career development: Includes areas such as vocational-choice theory, relationship between career choice and lifestyle, sources of occupational and educational information, approaches to career decision-making processes, and career-development exploration techniques.
- Appraisal of the individual: Includes the development of a framework for understanding the individual, including methods of data gathering and interpretation, individual and group testing, case-study approaches and the study of individual differences. Ethnic, cultural, and sex factors are also considered.
- Research and evaluation: Includes areas such as statistics, research design, and development of research and demonstration proposals. It also includes understanding legislation relating to the development of research, program development, and demonstration proposals, as well as the development and evaluation of program objectives.
- Professional orientation: Includes goals and objectives of professional counseling organizations, codes of ethics, legal consideration, standards of preparation, certification, and licensing and role of identity of counselors.
If you have earned a degree from a non-CACREP Accredited counseling graduate/master’s program, you must provide our office with the syllabus for each course in your program. The Board will then review the coursework, to ensure each course syllabus shows that the coursework meets those eight areas of counseling education as well as an advanced counseling practicum.
Q: If I need more courses what should I do?
A: Determine which curriculum areas you need additional courses to fulfill and then you can determine which educational institution you want to attend. The rule requires the institution to be accredited: IDAPA 24.15.01 – Rule 100.01.