When graduating from an art therapy masters program one is both eligible to earn their LPC & ATR. You are trained both to fulfill all responsibilities and roles as a counselor, case manager, and an art therapist. To specialize in art therapy provides you with specialized skills in using art as a form of communication and tool for change and healing. To be supervised by an art therapist as you work towards your LPC ensures that you not only receive sound clinical supervision as a counselor but additionally, as an art therapist, you are able to receive supervision specific to your skill set. This will allow art therapist the oppurtunity to  learn how both counseling skills and art therapy skills can be blended together in the workplace, allowing such professionals to provide the best care to all clients. An art therapists is able to provide the same quality of clinical supervision as a counselor provides. An art therapist is governed by professional standards set out by the American Art Therapy Association, which has built a positive professional relationship with the Counseling Board. For these reasons it is clear that registered art therapists should be listed as professionals qualified to provide supervision towards licensure.