Each branch of the Behavioral Sciences is unique. It is not semantics, as some have suggested. In Counselor Education programs, we are helping students build a Professional Counselor Identity. It is critical to this Counselor Identity that supervision of Residents, who are seeking to obtain a Professional Counseling license, remain with Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisors during their residency.

I agree with my colleague, Dr. Cynthia Doney, that "while an LPC and LPSW may have things in common, they are distinctively different in methods as well as populations served. Please do not alter the current guidelines which require each profession to supervise and guide their own Residents."

Thank you for reading! ~ Dr. Ashlee Lakin, LPC, NCC