As an alum of Radford University and current supervisor of Master's level Counseling Education students from non-accredited programs, I have felt the impact of efforts to limit LPC licensure. While obtaining a Master's degree from RU from 2008-2010, state regulations for LPC licensure changed, forcing me to pursue a doctorate or acquire another Master's degree in order to be licensed - both resulting in additional student loan debt that I was forced to take on. While I chose to become a psychologist, many of my well-qualified and talented cohort members didn't have that opportunity or were understandably unwilling to take on additional student loan debt. Most recently I have been supervising Master's level students from Counselor Education programs that aren't CACREP accredited. The students I have worked with have been well-rounded and would make strong contributions to our field, despite their program's lack of accreditation. If a mental health provider shortage already exists in Virginia, let alone the burden on rural providers, why make it even more difficulty for plenty of competent professionals to provide services that are desperately needed in our state? It seems as though there is nothing tangible to gain by limiting licensure to CACREP only programs.