Professional Counselors — Fees — Qualifications

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  3. Professions of the Healing Arts
  4. Professional Counselors, Marital and Family Therapists, and Clinical Pastoral Therapists
  5. Professional Counselors, Marital and Family Therapists
  6. Professional Counselors — Fees — Qualifications

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An applicant for licensure as a professional counselor shall pay the board a nonrefundable fee as set by the board and shall satisfy the board that the applicant:

  1. Is at least eighteen (18) years of age;
  2. Is of good moral character;
    1. Has obtained a minimum of sixty (60) graduate hours in counseling or a closely related field and which includes a master's degree in counseling; and
    2. Has completed a supervised field experience as either a practicum or internship that includes a minimum of five hundred (500) clock hours of training, at least three hundred (300) of which must be completed in a mental health or community agency setting. This field experience must be supervised by an individual with at least a master's degree in counseling, social work, psychology or psychiatry;
  4. Has had at least two (2) years of professional experience of a type judged to be acceptable by the board subsequent to being granted a master's degree and has not violated § 63-22-110;
  5. Has passed the examination offered by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) or such other examination approved by the board; and
  6. Has met any additional criteria of the board established by rule.


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