Thank you for considering the petition and providing an opportunity to comment. I am in support of this petition. It is appropriate and, in my experience, more effective to have someone with the same credentials supervising. It has become redundant and exhausting for agencies to provide two levels of supervision by two different staff. At our agency we have QMHP-A supervisors who have been doing this work effectively and efficiently for a very long time. They are capable and qualified to supervise those trying to achieve the same credentials. Licensed staff can be hard to come by and it is not practical to require them to supervise Residents in Counseling and QMHP-E's, in addition to regular supervision duties.  Overtasking licensed staff places the goal of quality supervision at risk. Requiring supervisory CEU’s is appropriate. Our industry does not need more regulations though. We need to set standards within our agencies to address supervisory training.