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]
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11/19/24  6:31 pm
Commenter: Arnold Woodruff, LMFT

Oppose LMFT Becoming LPC without Exam
 

I am opposed to this proposal. I understand that it is being made, in part, to balance the regulation that allows lpc's to become lmft's without taking the national mft exam. I'm equally opposed to that provision and would suggest that the path to equity is to require applicants to take the exam that is intended to assess skills and knowledge for the professional license being sought! We are two different professions who cover much the same scope of services, but from a research and technique base that relies on quite different base assumptions. Neither profession can claim outcome supremacy, but the client community deserves to know that the license being presented represents a professional trained in that particular speciality with a background of education, supervised experience and skills consistent with the license advertised. This change would cloud that understanding.

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