While the underlying goal of creating a path that facilitates portability for licensed professional counselors moving to Virginia is admirable, the NCLEP does the opposite and sets a dangerous precident for the field of counseling. Furthermore, it has to potential to overburden an often overwhelmed mental health system by limiting the number of providers.  It should be noted that  the American Counseling Association (ACA) , the worlds largest association exclusively representing professional counselos, declined to endorse the NCLEP. In turn ACA developed their own portability plan that avoids the dangerous ptifalls associated with the proposed NCLEP portability plan.  I have had former students and supervisees licensed here in Georgia (which has a stringent licensure process) move to Virginia. They have all been very successfull as each are competent mental health counselors. They love working and living in Virginia. Adopting a measure such as this would eliminate eliminae qualified professionals such as these from prusueing a career in Virginia.