As someone who's mother has PTSD and cannot complete in-person treatment with a health professional, it seems apparent, if not necessary, to not allow residents making their way into the mental health professions the ability to procure hours toward licensing requirements by means of audio communication. While perhaps not suitable to ascertain analysis of in-person modality with a patient, you cannot expect all individuals, depending upon which part of the state they are in, to be able to fulfill these requirements amidst a pandemic. If not applicable, perhaps a cut-off or a codified timeframe in which audio is counted and then back to in-person requirements? At the minimum until the end of 2021, in hopes of a vaccine, whenever that will come to culmination. I am unjust in stating I understand all of the implications leading up to the conclusion to keep audio hours out of the legislation, but I implore you to reconsider. Even a phone call has shown exemplary aid in my mother's overall mental wellbeing. I am sure residents are eager to begin work during these tumultuous times, as they are utmost vital to combat the understated hardships of the pandemic. Please give them equal opportunity in all modalities of modern communication.