This is long overdue! Prohibiting Residents in Counseling from directly billing their own clients is causing an unnecessary complication to the supervisory process for Residents seeking to start their residency in private practice.

Many Residents in Counseling are being supervised successfully without their supervisors considering how the Resident's clients are paying for their services in Exempt and Employed settings. The supervisors in these settings manage to monitor and support the Resident well. There is no reason that a supervisor needs to be involved in the process of a client paying for the services of the Resident in a non-Exempt setting, outside of ensuring the Resident understands the ethical codes. 

I strongly support this petition.