Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4757 - Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board › Chapter 4757-13 - Licensing of Counselors › Section 4757-13-03 - Requirements for licensure as a licensed professional clinical counselor

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) In addition to
			 meeting educational and other requirements as established in rules
			 4757-13-01
			 and
			 4757-13-02
			 of the Administrative Code, applicants for licensed professional clinical
			 counselor shall meet the following experience and examination requirements as a
			 licensed professional counselor:
(1) An
			 applicant with a qualifying master's or other graduate degree which is not a
			 doctorate in counseling shall have completed two years of post-licensed
			 professional counselor supervised experience in clinical counseling, which
			 includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional
			 disorders.
(2) An applicant with a
			 doctorate in counseling shall have completed two years of supervised experience
			 in clinical counseling, which includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental
			 and emotional disorders. At least one year and a minimum of fifteen hundred
			 hours of supervised experience shall be completed after the award of the
			 doctoral degree and as a licensed professional counselor and one year and a
			 maximum of fifteen hundred hours of supervised experience may be completed as a
			 part of a doctoral internship at a board approved counselor education
			 program.
(3) An applicant licensed
			 as a licensed professional counselor by this board prior to the requirement of
			 sixty semester hours and the clinical coursework in paragraph (A)(5) of rule
			 4757-13-01
			 of the Administrative Code, shall use supervised experience as a professional
			 counselor to meet this requirement
(4) A minimum of two years of supervised
			 practice by the applicants shall be in a clinical setting, which shall have a
			 primary focus on the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
			 Each year of supervised experience in clinical counseling required under
			 section
			 4757.22
			 of the Revised Code and under this rule shall meet paragraphs (A)(4)(a),
			 (A)(4)(b) and (B) of this rule unless the committee approves experience under
			 paragraph (A)(4)(c) or (A)(4) (d) of this rule.
(a) At least fifteen hundred hours of work,
			 by the applicant, of which a minimum of fifty per cent of the work consists of
			 face-to-face client contact involving the delivery of clinical counseling
			 services, which include the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional
			 disorders. Not more than fifteen hundred hours of experience may be accrued in
			 any twelve month period. If the supervised experience totaled less than the
			 fifteen hundred hours, in a twelve month period credit will be granted for the
			 fraction of a year's experience represented by the number of hours worked;
			 and
(b) The experience was under
			 the direct supervision of a licensed professional clinical counselor,
			 psychologist, psychiatrist, independent social worker with a clinical area of
			 competence, or other independently licensed mental health professional
			 acceptable to the counselor professional standards committee. All supervision
			 obtained in Ohio shall be provided by a licensed professional clinical
			 counselor with supervision designation. Exceptions to this rule, due to
			 hardship, shall be made in writing to the committee.
(c) Supervised counseling experience obtained
			 out of state may count toward the supervised experience requirement. Applicants
			 shall request this consideration in writing from the counselor professional
			 standards committee. If licensed in another state with more than five years
			 clinical experience, applicants shall apply under rule
			 4757-13-06
			 of the Administrative Code.
(d)
			 Elementary or secondary schools and college or university academic advising,
			 admissions, and placement centers are not clinical settings where diagnosis and
			 treatment of mental and emotional disorders are routinely within the scope of
			 practice. Applicants who believe that they are conducting diagnosis and
			 treatment of mental and emotional disorders have the burden of proving to the
			 counselor professional standards committee that their experience meets the
			 requirements as defined in paragraphs (A)(4)(a) to (A)(4)(c) of this
			 rule.