We have been a residency site for over 15 years offering a wide range of supervision, consultation, training, and support systems to pre-licensed clinicians across multiple therapeutic disciplines. They are incredibly well-trained and supervised and we have a lot of oversight in their work. We have had multiple incidents of supervisees engaging in legally and ethically unsound practices. The origins of these behaviors typically lie in inexperience/competency issues, poor judgment or lack of critical thinking skills, failing to disclose to a supervisor or take ownership of their mistakes/growth edges, failure to regulate anxiety, and inability to manage transference and countertransference issues. The ability to practice therapy/counseling independently is a process that should be respected and earned over time and through exposure to a wide variety of clinical experiences. I am most concerned that there are so many clinicians, some of which appear to be supervisors, who are failing to recognize the risk that this practice would present to clients. I hope the Board does not move in this direction.