LPCs supervise Residents in Counseling as a means to support and protect the unique identity of the profession.  Neither the Board of Psychology nor the Board of Social Work permits LPCs to supervise psychologists or social work residents for the same reason.  As a previous commenter noted, “When the LPC license started, social workers, nurses, etc were included on the list of supervisors because there were not enough LPC's to do the supervision, however, in the Commonwealth now there are several thousand LPC's.”   Counseling programs are completely separate from social work and psychology programs and while each of these professions borrows theories from the others, we each also have distinct professional identities. If there is a need for more supervisors, then there should be education offered to existing LPCs about the benefits of becoming trained to supervise and in providing supervision.