Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Health Professions
 
Board
Board of Counseling
 
chapter
Regulations Governing the Practice of Professional Counseling [18 VAC 115 ‑ 20]
Action Requirement for CACREP accreditation for educational programs
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/14/2017
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5/21/17  10:37 pm
Commenter: The Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Bauer, LCPC Safe Harbor Christian Counseling

Opposition to CACREP Monopoly.
 

My Doctorate in Developmental Psychology is from Harvard. I have undergraduate degree and two Masters degrees from Yale.  I have a General Theological Seminary Degree and a Yale Divinity School degree which included much counseling preparation, including clinical training at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, and Rosewood Training Center, Maryland.  My certificate of advanced study in counseling is from Loyola University in Baltimore, MD.  I did pastoral counseling work in Virginia at Westover Church, Charles City, St. Paul's Church, Petersburg.  I was on the Petersburg School Board and the Board of the Governor's School in Richmond.  I am currently serving as Interim Rector of Manikin Church, Powhatan County.  I am licensed as a Maryland Counselor and work at a Lutheran Church in Maryland. I have been doing counseling for 40 years.  The idea that my education and training would not be acceptable in Virginia is ridiculous.!!!!

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