Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Counseling
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Professional Counseling [18 VAC 115 ‑ 20]
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11/18/13  2:49 pm
Commenter: Lisa Magazine

Support for the Chase petition
 

The current interpretation of the LPC licensure regulations result in a lot of false negatives; in other words, they screen out many individuals with excellent training and skills who would otherwise be great additions to Virginia's LPC community. For example, many of the graduates from Radford University have masters in Clinical Psychology, but they took many of the same courses as those in the Counseling Psychology program, sharing many of the same classrooms, instructors, assignments, and syllabi. Requiring some additional coursework and/or supervision may allay any professional identity or training consistency concerns. However, simply refusing to include these individuals in the LPC community is overly strict, results in fewer licensed individuals in the field and able to provide services (many agencies and insurances require the provider to be licensed), and has very negative impacts on the individual lives of these clinicians.

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