Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 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.
(B) An
applicant for licensed professional clinical counselor shall 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 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 be completed by the applicant's supervising
counselors.
(3) The supervision
evaluations shall be completed by the supervising counselor for the applicant
within thirty days of the accumulation of fifteen hundred and three thousand
total hours of supervised experience.
(C) An applicant for licensed
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 licensed professional clinical counselor.
Applicants shall have passed the required examination within seven years of
application date, unless they are currently licensed in an equivalent capacity
in another state and passed the prescribed examination as part of the licensure
requirements in that state;
(D)
Applicants, who are denied licensure, shall be afforded an opportunity for a
hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
