The various helping professions each have their scope of practice (not to mention philosophies, approaches, regulatory and accreditation boards, etc.) and thus warrant supervision solely by those within their own profession. Should social workers gain supervisory rights over professional counselors, would the reciprocal be similar (professional counselors supervising social workers)? And then we could loop psychologists and psychiatrists into the mix and allow all helping professions to supervise one another…It’s a really bad idea for any and all of the helping professions.