LMFT's are counselors. CACREP accredits programs that train family therapists, they receive the same base education with extra coursework in systems work and 600 hours of supervised internship. LMFT counseling trainees often have internships in the same places as other counseling trainees, CSB's, addictions treatment, inpatient, and outpatient therapeutic agencies. 

Taking national exams is costly and can be prohibitive on a structural level. As counselors we need to be promoting workforce development, mental health access is at an all time low.

Why not decrease a structural burden for LMFT's by allowing the acceptance of the national exam they already have to take? It seems like decreasing a structural barrier to promote professional counseling access would be an ideal of the counseling profession.