In CACREP programs, family counseling trainees obtain the same base educational requirements, with the addition of systems trainings supporting their expertise in systems/family work. They recieve 60 credit hour degrees with 600 hour internships with supervision - often in the same types of agencies that mental health students are placed. COAMFTE programs require between 60-72 credit hours for a degree with supervised internships. 

Adding another exam is costly and provides additional barriers to licensure that are unnecessary. We need to promote workforce development as a field - and paying attention to structural barriers prohibiting access to licensure is an important philosophical ideal of the counseling profession. 

One qualifying exam should be enough. We are in a position to slightly lessen the financial and systemic burden of master's level professionals who have earned a 60 credit hour degree and practiced years under supervision to earn a license. That feels like an ideal the field would support.