4757-13-03 Requirements for licensure as a licensed professional clinical counselor.

 

 

 

4757-13-03                  Experience  requirements  Requirements  for  licensure  as  a professional clinical counselor.

 

 

 

(A)      In addition to meeting educational, examination and other requirements as established in rules 4757-13-01 and 4757-13-02 of the Administrative Code, applicants for professional clinical counselor must meet the following experience and examination requirements as a professional counselor:

 

(1)   An applicant with a qualifying master's or other graduate degree which is not a doctorate in counseling must have completed two years of post professional counselor licensure supervised experience in clinical counseling, which includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders which must be completed after all of the educational requirements have been met.

 

(2)   An applicant with a doctorate in counseling must have completed two years of supervised experience in clinical counseling, which includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, one year of which must be completed after the award of the doctoral degree. One year or fifteen hundred hours of supervised experience may be completed as a part of a doctoral internship at a board approved counselor education program. At lease one thousand five hundred hours of work by the applicants must be in a clinical setting which includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, and meets the requirements established in paragraphs (A)(3)(a) and (A)(3)(b) and (B) of rule 4757-13-03 of the Administrative Code.

 

(3)   Each year of supervised experience in clinical counseling required under section

4757.22 of the Revised Code and under this rule must meet the following criteria:

 

(a)    At least one thousand five 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 one thousand five hundred hours  of experience may be accrued in any twelve month period. If the supervised experience totaled less than the one thousand five 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 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. After June 30, 2000, all supervision obtained in Ohio must be provided by a professional clinical counselor. Exceptions to this rule,

 

 

due to hardship, must be made in writing to the committee.

(c)   Individuals may request consideration of post educational degree or post licensure supervised experience obtained prior to January 1, 1998, which may be accepted by the committee as meeting the supervised clinical experience requirements if it meets the following conditions:

(i)    It was training supervision as defined in paragraph (A)(1) of rule 4757-17-01 of the Administrative Code;

(ii)      The supervisee registered the experience with the board on a registration form provided by the board prior to the beginning of the supervised experience;

(iii)    The experience qualified as clinical experience which included the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders and had been approved by the board prior to July 3, 1997; and

(iv)      Applicants must request consideration of the previously filed experience in writing from the committee.

(d)   Supervised counseling experience obtained out of state may count toward the supervised experience requirement. Applicants must request this consideration in writing from the counselor professional standard's committee.

(e)     The experience must have included within its scope of practice the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.

(f)     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)(3)(a) to (A)(3)(c) of rule 4757-13-03 of the Administrative Code.

(g)    Applicants licensed as licensed professional counselors may apply the supervised experience they completed to qualify for that license to satisfy the experience requirement for professional clinical counselor, if

the experience meets all the standards set forth in this rule.

(B)      An applicant for professional clinical counselor must pass a field evaluation prescribed by the board to evaluate the applicant's competence in diagnosing and treating mental and emotional disorders.

(1)    The field evaluation must contain documented evidence of the quality, scope and nature of the applicant's field experience and competence in diagnosis and treating mental and emotional disorders and be submitted on a form prescribed by the counselor professional standards committee.

(2)    The field evaluation must be completed by the individuals registered with the board as the applicant's supervising counselors.

(C) An applicant for professional clinical counselor shall successfully complete the licensure examination prescribed by the counselor professional standards committee. All Ohio professional counselors who were licensed as professional counselors by taking the single tier Texas-Ohio examination from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2004 or Ohio professional counselor licensure examination from January 1, 2004 through February 28, 2006 are exempt from taking the prescribed examination for professional clinical counselor.

Effective:                                                     03/13/2006

R.C. 119.032 review dates:                         06/15/2007

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

03/03/2006

Date

Promulgated Under:                           119.03

Statutory Authority:                           4757.10, 4757.22

Rule Amplifies:                                  4757.22

Prior Effective Dates:                         2-24-86 (Emer.); 5-22-86; 12-18-88; 7-3-97; 2-9-98;

7-10-00