I would like to formally announce my strongest support for the Chase Petition.  I graduated from Radford University in 2009 and went on to attend a Combined and Integrated doctoral program in Clinical and School Psychology.  My program had a strong counseling emphasis and we took many classes with the masters of counseling students.  When I went into these classes, I realized I had already covered this material extensively in Radford's M.S. program.  I was able to opt out of some counseling classes that my peers were required to take based on my performance with actual clients which were videotaped as rated by my professors.  Furthermore, I would like to add that my program required a master's degree for acceptance and ALMOST ALL of my peers had degrees in Counseling.  I was able to not only keep up with these peers, but I was also able to excel beyond them in many domains based upon the excellence in training that I was provided at Radford.  Looking back now as a psychologist, I have no doubts about the excellence of my program in training first class practioners and I am steadfast in my belief that my peers are capable and effective clinicans who have the skills, aptitude, and ability to work in many areas of the counseling field.  Please consider the request to allow my fellow graduates to be recognized formally through the process of licensure in being the true enactors of therapeutic change which I know them to be.  Their dignity as clinicans should be recognized through the granting of their ability to obtain licensure.