Due to the vast mental health workforce shortage and increased need for mental health and addiction counseling, I strongly oppose this proposed regulation. This is a time when we need more qualified supervisors to launch LPCs who can address such issues as community violence prevention, trauma informed care, and increased suicidal ideation. We need more supervisors to ready our next cohort of licensed professional counselors. Do these supervisors need to be trained and experienced? Absolutely! Raising the number of years of experience post licensure does not guarantee that quality supervision will be provided. Instead of further restricting the job possibilities of LPC’s, let’s invest as a state in training top notch Virginia supervisors.