While I'm not a resident of Virginia, I am a current graduate student studying professional counseling and will seek licensure in the near future to become a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Restricting counseling resident's supervisors to only Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT) will cause unnecessary and possibly unresolvable issues such as incapability to complete supervision hours and inadequate training. Without the diversity of the different roles and specializations that Psychologists, Social Workers and and Psychiatrists, I think graduate students will be missing out on a well-rounded internship experience and may not be properly trained in the field due to this severe restriction. If there was ever a time to make it more difficult to become a licensed helping professional, now is not the time. There is a clear need for mental health workers and this restriction reduces the amount of new individuals coming into the profession and it only hinders students who are currently studying from completing their degree.