One of the challenges of the Counseling profession has been to establish a strong professional identity. The profession took a huge step towards that goal by limiting supervision hours for licensure to only LPCs. Allowing this proposal to pass would set the profession back in a way that would be difficult to ever recover from. 

For folx arguing that we need to be interdisciplinary--NO WE DON'T! At least not in this area as we would be shooting our professional identity in the foot. There is nothing that precludes interdisciplinary work in the mental health profession, it's just that supervision hours can't count towards licensure. That's a rule that the LCSWs and LCP follow, so what's good for the goose must also be good for the gander. 

I do NOT support this proposed legislation.