The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth many challenges for a variety of different fields.  Not only has the mental health field adapted to these challenges, but the number of people seeking out mental health treatment has increased since this pandemic has started.  Resident's in counseling are being provided an opportunity to grow with this field and to grow as clinician's in ways that many of them probably never saw coming. They have had to adapt to different forms of providing therapy, many of which most residents would probably consider more challenging than the typical face-to-face format, which is what they were trained for. To be prevented from being able to utilize these hours would be like being told that their efforts have gone unnoticed and the hard work they are doing is not worthy of moving forward in their careers.  Residents did not ask for this pandemic to happen, but they are doing the best they can do adapt to that and they should not be punished for this.