I am the program director for the Counseling Psychology MA program at Towson University in Maryland. Our program is MPCAC-accredited and we have a long history of graduating exceptional students who become licensed professional counselors.  If the proposed legislation were approved, Virginia would be excluding these counselors from licensure at a time when mental health practitioners are gravely needed!  There is no data to support the notion of students graduating from CACREP-accredited programs as superior in any way to those graduates from programs accredited by similar professional organizations.  MPCAC imposes the same rigorous training standards for counseling and psychotherapy, and limiting licensure to those from CACREP programs is arbitrary at best, and dangerous at worst.