Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LX - Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners › Subpart 1 - Licensed Professional Counselors › Chapter 6 - Application, Practice, and Renewal Requirements for Provisional Licensed Professional Counselors › Section LX-605 - Supervised Practice Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. PLPC Supervision Requirements
1. This shall define and establish the
				  minimum standards for supervised practice of PLPCs.
Supervision
is defined as a process in which the PLPC, engages
				  in a collaborative relationship with a LPC Supervisor. The goal of supervision
				  is to enhance and evaluate the PLPCs professional competence, monitor the
				  quality of services provided, maintain the ethical standards of practice,
				  protect the welfare of the public and providing a gatekeeping function for
				  entry into the mental health profession.
2. Pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  37:1107(A), a supervisee
				  must document a minimum of 3,000 hours of post-master's experience in
				  professional mental health counseling under the clinical supervision of a
				  board-approved supervisor, with said supervision occurring over a period of no
				  less than two years and not more than six years from the original date such
				  supervision was approved. A supervisee must remain under supervision of a
				  board-approved supervisor until receiving written notification of approval for
				  licensure.
a.
i. Based on the above, the required 3,000
				  hours of counseling/psychotherapeutic experience shall be accrued in the
				  following manner.
(a). Direct Hours. A
				  minimum of 1,900 hours in direct counseling/psychotherapeutic services
				  involving individuals, couples, families, or groups:
(i). an applicant may utilize supervised
				  direct hours earned in post-master's degree practicum and internship courses in
				  counseling (from a regionally accredited university) toward the required 1900
				  hours of direct counseling/psychotherapeutic services. In order to be counted,
				  the direct hours earned in practicum and internship courses must have occurred
				  after the applicant has been approved for provisional licensure and is under
				  the supervision of the applicants board-approved supervisor. An applicant may
				  not count hours spent supervising others (i.e., supervision courses, doctoral
				  students supervising masters level students) as direct hours.
(b). Indirect Hours. A minimum of
				  1,000 indirect hours in counseling-related activities (i.e., client contact,
				  case notes, staffing, case consultation, or testing/assessment of clients) or
				  education at the graduate level in the field of mental health counseling as
				  defined in
				  R.S.
				  37:1101-1123:
(i). five hundred indirect hours of
				  supervised experience may be gained for each 30 graduate semester hours earned
				  beyond the required masters degree provided that such hours are clearly related
				  to the field of mental health counseling, are earned from a regionally
				  accredited institution, and are acceptable to the board. Practicum and
				  internship courses may not be included in the 30 graduate semester hours that
				  are used to substitute for 500 hours of supervised experience if they are used
				  to count toward an applicants direct hours.
(c). Supervision Hours. A minimum of 100
				  hours of face-to-face supervision by a LPC Supervisor. Up to 100 percent of the
				  supervision hours may be conducted by synchronous videoconferencing on a HIPAA
				  compliant platform:
(i). supervision may not
				  take place via mail, email, or telephone. Telephone, mail, or email contacts
				  with supervisor may be counted under Subclause A.2.a.i.(b) of this Section
				  (i.e., consultation), however, it cannot be counted as face to face supervision
				  as defined in Subclause A.2.a.i.(c) of this
				  Section.
ii.
				  Acceptable modes for supervision of direct clinical contact are the following.
(a). Individual Supervision. The supervisory
				  session is conducted by the LPC Supervisor with one PLPC present.
(b). Group Supervision. The supervisory
				  session is conducted by the supervisor(s) with 2 and no more than 10 PLPCs
				  present.
iii. Supervision
				  hours include individual and/or group supervision as described below.
(a). A minimum of 50 of these 100 hours must
				  be individual supervision.
(b). The
				  remaining hours may be either individual supervision or group
				  supervision.
3. Supervised experience hours for PLPC and
				  PLMFT may be accrued concurrently, after receiving notification of approval
				  from the board certifying that all the requirements for both provisional
				  licensed professional counselor and the provisional licensed marriage and
				  family therapist have been met. If approval was not obtained on the same date
				  for each provisional license, then concurrent accrual of hours cannot begin
				  until the second provisional license has been approved. Retroactive supervision
				  experience hours are not permitted.
4. Current PLPCs are required to remain under
				  active supervision as defined in Chapter 5 until fully
				  licensed.