Kan. Admin. Regs. § 102-3-7a - Postgraduate supervised professional experience requirement to be licensed as a clinical professional counselor
In order to be approved by the board for licensure as a clinical
professional counselor, the applicant's postgraduate supervised professional
experience of professional counseling, totaling 3,000 hours of professional
experience inclusive of 1,500 hours of
(a) Except as
provided in subsection (b), one hour of clinical supervision shall be provided
throughout the entirety of the postgraduate supervised professional experience for
each 15 hours of direct client contact . Unless extenuating circumstances are
approved by the board, all supervision shall be conducted face-to-face either in
person or, if confidentiality is technologically protected, by synchronous
videoconferencing, specified as follows:
(1) At
least 50 hours of individual supervision occurring with the supervisor and
supervisee;
(2) up to 50 hours of group
supervision with one supervisor and no more than six supervisees; and
(3) meet for at least one hour at least twice per
month, at least one of which shall be individual supervision.
(b) Each applicant with a doctor's degree in
professional counseling shall complete at least one-half of the postgraduate
supervised professional experience requirements as follows:
(1) At least 25 hours of individual supervision
occurring with the supervisor and supervisee;
(2) up to 25 hours of group supervision with one
supervisor and no more than six supervisees; and
(3) at least two separate supervisory sessions per
month, one of which shall be individual supervision.
(c) The clinical supervisor of a person attaining
the 3,000 hours of postgraduate supervised professional experience required for
licensure as a clinical professional counselor, at the time of providing
supervision, shall be a board-approved clinical supervisor and shall meet one of the
following provisions:
(1) The clinical supervisor
shall be a clinical professional counselor who is licensed in Kansas or is
registered or licensed in another jurisdiction and who has practiced as a clinical
professional counselor for two years beyond the supervisor's licensure
date.
(2) If a licensed clinical
professional counselor is not available, the clinical supervisor may be a person who
is qualified by educational coursework and degree for licensure as a clinical
professional counselor in Kansas and who has at least five years of postgraduate
professional experience in clinical professional counseling.
(3) Under extenuating circumstances approved by
the board, the clinical supervisor may be a person who is licensed at the graduate
level to practice in one of the behavioral sciences and whose authorized scope of
practice permits the independent practice of counseling, therapy, or psychotherapy.
The qualifying individual shall not have had less than two years of clinical
practice beyond the qualifying licensure date when the individual provided the
clinical supervision.
(d) In
addition to the requirements of subsection (c), each clinical supervisor shall meet
these requirements:
(1) Have professional authority
over and responsibility for the supervisee's clinical functioning in the practice of
professional counseling;
(2) not have a
dual relationship with the supervisee;
(3) not be under any sanction from a disciplinary
proceeding, unless this prohibition is waived by the board for good cause shown by
the proposed supervisor;
(4) have
knowledge of and experience with the supervisee's client population;
(5) have knowledge of and experience with the
methods of practice that the supervisee employs;
(6) have an understanding of the organization and
the administrative policies and procedures of the supervisee's practice setting ;
and
(7) be a staff member of the
supervisee's practice setting or meet the requirements of subsection (e).
(e) If a qualified clinical supervisor
is not available from among staff in the supervisee's practice setting , the
supervisee may secure an otherwise qualified clinical supervisor outside the
practice setting if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The supervisor has a solid understanding of
the practice setting 's mission, policies, and procedures.
(2) The extent of the supervisor's responsibility
for the supervisee is clearly defined in terms of client cases to be supervised,
role in personnel evaluation within the practice setting , and other aspects of the
clinical supervision training plan .
(3)
The responsibility for payment for supervision is clearly defined.
(4) If the supervisee pays the supervisor directly
for the supervision, the supervisor maintains responsibility to the client and to
the practice setting .
(f)
Each professional counseling clinical supervisor shall perform the following duties:
(1) Provide oversight, guidance, and direction of
the supervisee's clinical practice of professional counseling by assessing and
evaluating the supervisee's performance;
(2) conduct supervision as a process distinct from
personal therapy, didactic instruction, or professional counseling
consultation ;
(3) provide documentation
of supervisory qualifications to the supervisee;
(4) periodically evaluate the supervisee's
clinical functioning;
(5) provide
supervision in accordance with the clinical supervision training plan ;
(6) maintain documentation of supervision in
accordance with the clinical supervision training plan ;
(7) provide the documentation required by the
board when a supervisee completes the postgraduate supervised professional
experience. The supervisor shall submit this documentation on board-approved forms
and in a manner that will enable the board to evaluate the extent and quality of the
supervisee's professional experience and assign credit for that
experience;
(8) provide a level of
supervision that is commensurate with the education, training, experience, and
ability of both the supervisor and the supervisee; and
(9) ensure that each client knows that the
supervisee is practicing professional counseling under supervision.
(g) Each supervisor and supervisee
shall develop and cosign a written clinical supervision training plan on forms
provided by the board at the beginning of the supervisory relationship. The
supervisee shall submit this plan to the board and shall receive board approval of
the plan before any supervised professional experience hours can begin to accrue.
This plan shall clearly define and delineate the following items:
(1) The supervisory context;
(2) a summary of the anticipated types of clients
and the services to be provided;
(3) the
format and schedule of supervision;
(4)
a plan for documenting the following information:
(A) The date of each supervisory
meeting;
(B) the length of each
supervisory meeting;
(C) a designation
of each supervisory meeting as an individual or group meeting;
(D) a designation of each supervisory meeting as
conducted in the same physical space or otherwise, in the case of emergency;
and
(E) an evaluation of the
supervisee's progress under clinical supervision;
(5) a plan for notifying clients of the following
information:
(A) The fact that the supervisee is
practicing professional counseling under supervision;
(B) the limits of client confidentiality within
the supervisory process; and
(C) the
name, address, and telephone number of the clinical supervisor;
(6) the date on which the parties entered into the
clinical supervision training plan and the time frame that the plan is intended to
encompass;
(7) an agreement to amend or
renegotiate the terms of the clinical supervision training plan , if warranted,
including written notification of these changes to the board office, as provided in
subsection (h);
(8) the supervisee's
informed consent for the supervisor to discuss supervision or performance issues
with the supervisee's clients, the supervisee's other professional counseling or
employment supervisors, the board, or any other individual or entity to which either
the supervisee or the supervisor is professionally accountable; and
(9) a statement signed by each supervisor and
supervisee acknowledging that each person has read and agrees to the postgraduate
supervised professional experience requirements specified in this
regulation.
(h) All changes
to the clinical supervision training plan shall be submitted by the supervisee to
the board for its approval. The changes shall be submitted no more than 45 days
after the date on which the changes took effect. If the supervisee fails to submit
the changes to the board within that 45-day period, no supervised hours of practice
shall be accrued or credited for any practice, beginning on the date the changes
took effect through the date on which the changes to the plan are approved by the
board.
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