Pursuant to § 54.1-2400.1:
""Mental health professional" means a person who by education and experience is professionally qualified and licensed in Virginia to provide counseling interventions designed to facilitate an individual's achievement of human development goals and remediate mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and associated distresses which interfere with mental health and development."
Someone with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice does not have the knowledge, experience, or education to train someone else regardless of experience. I do not object to the degree being a degree that qualifies for the QMHP.
I take issue when that same degree is used to train people on the foundations of "human development goals and remediate mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and associated distresses which interfere with mental health and development." It is my opinion that that is not the proper foundation to teach or train on those issues.
I do not object to the creation of a QMHP-Supervisor certification to training someone if all of the following are met: