There are many positions and roles which LPCs and LCSWs and LMFTs and LSATPs can fill which overlap. There are many benefits to working within a multidisciplinary team and receiving training from a variety of sources. However, when it comes to the initial training and supervision a Resident in Counseling receives, a Resident in Counseling should have direct supervision from a provider in their own field. This helps that clinician to maintain and understand the benefits, nuances and purposes of having the distinctions between professions. The specific differences are well laid out in many other comments and I see no reason to restate them again. 

The petitioner has posted in a similar petition in the Board of Social Work that he intended to submit this petition. Others can look that petition and comment up if they so desire. The petitioner is correct that at one time LCSWs could provide clinical supervision for Residents in Counseling. That ended when the Board of Counseling determined that there were enough LPCs to support providing supervision of our own profession, so that we no longer needed the support of professions from other Boards. That is how professions grow and that is appropriate. It would be inappropriate for Residents in Counseling to go back to being clinically supervised towards licensure by LCSWs at this time. 

Adding LCSWs as an additional supervisor could also potentially damage our participation in the Counseling Compact as the rules and regulations of that have not yet been released. It is important to maintain the integrity of our profession as an independent and distinct profession.