While I understand the desire to limit supervision status to licensed mental health professionals who can adequately supervise masters level counselors, it is short sided to exclude licensed psychologists from providing such supervision. Licensed psychologists who are trained in clinical supervision are well qualified to supervise masters level counselors in the provision of counseling services. Limiting supervision roles will further fuel the difficulty masters level counselors in training experience in identifying appropriate practicum/internship/training sites or will force them to have to pay someone outside their agency to provide supervision just so it is accepted by the Board. This also poses a significant burden to military spouses like myself who continue to have difficulty getting an LPC license from state to state because states are unwilling to accept my substantial amount of clinical hours since they were supervised by licensed psychologists instead of LPCs. This same burden applies to other LPCs moving into our state. We essentially would be telling them to start their supervised hours over again just so they would count in VA in cases where these unlicensed professionals were unable to finish all of the LPC licensure requirements in another state before moving to VA. I think allowing psychologists to provide supervision is warranted, but not the others (e.g. Psychiatrists), since psychologists have the same foundational training, provide many of the same services, and have very stringent requirements for licensure. You can add a provision that psychologists who can demonstrate they are competent to provide clinical supervision (like with transcripts or continuing education) can be approved for supervision.