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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11/30/18  10:13 pm
Commenter: Heather Kafka, MA, CSOTP, Resident in Counseling

Marketing issue versus regulatory issue
 

I do not think this is an appropriate petition for the board at this time. As residents, we agree to abide by the regulations which instruct us to always identify ourselves as residents and provide our supervisor’s information to our clients. Additionally, supervisors are responsible for ensuring their supervisees are following those regulations. It is difficult enough for residents to obtain positions where they can accrue their supervision hours. If this petition were to be passed into the regulations, it may make it even more difficult for residents to complete those hours and does not appear as if it would directly benefit our clients in a significant way. I think the issue at hand is more of a marketing issue for certain advertising platforms versus a regulation issue. 

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