Four Requirements For Professional Counseling

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“There are more than a hundred thousand professional counselors licensed across the United States, under licensure laws enacted in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Education and training standards for licensed professional counselors’ licensure are similar with those of the other two master’s level mental health providers (clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists). State licensure requirements for professional counselors usually have four requirements” (American Counseling Association, 2011, pg. 1). The first requirement, “licensed professional counselors must have possession of a master’s or doctoral degree in counseling from a national or regionally-accredited institution of higher education (in