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

 

 

 

4757-13-03                  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 shall 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 shall 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 shall 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. 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 one One year or 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. 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)   At least fifteen hundred hours of work by the applicants shall be in a clinical setting, which includes 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 must meet paragraphs (A)(3)(a), (A)(3)(b) and (B) of this rule unless the committee approves experience under paragraphs (A)(3)(c), (A)(3)(d), (A)(3)(e) or (A)(3)(f) of this rule.the following criteria:

 

(a)   At least fifteen 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 fifteen one thousand five hundred hours of experience may be accrued in any twelve month period. If the supervised experience totaled less than the fifteen 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. All After June 30, 2000, all supervision obtained in Ohio shall must be provided by a professional clinical counselor with supervision designation. Exceptions to this rule, due to hardship, shall 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 shall 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 shall must request this consideration in writing from the counselor professional standards standard's committee.

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

(f)(e) 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 this rule 4757-13-03 of the Administrative Code.

(g)(f) 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 shall must pass a field evaluation prescribed by the board to evaluate the applicant's competence in diagnosing and treating mental and emotional disorders. The applicant shall further provide supervision evaluations within thirty days following the completion of the first fifteen hundred hours of supervised experience required under paragraph (A) of this rule, and again, at the completion of the full three thousand hours of supervised experience on forms provided by the board.

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

(3) The supervision evaluations shall be completed by the registered supervising counselor for the applicant within thirty days of the accumulation of fifteen hundred and three thousand total hours of supervised experience. The applicant is responsible for providing the form to the supervisor.

(C)     An applicant for professional clinical counselor shall successfully complete the licensure examination prescribed by the counselor professional standards committee within two years of application. 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:                                                     09/20/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates:                         06/15/2007 and 09/20/2012

CERTIFIED ELECTRONICALLY

Certification

09/10/2007

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; 3-13-06