22 Tex. Admin. Code § 681.72 - [Effective until 3/27/2024] Required Application Materials
(a) To
apply for LPC Associate, the applicant must submit:
(1) the Council's application form;
(2) all applicable fees;
(3) official examination results from the
National Board of Certified Counselors verifying a passing score on the
National Counselor Exam (NCE) or National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Exam
(NCMHCE) issued no more than five (5) years before the date the application was
received;
(4) completion
certificate for the Texas jurisprudence exam dated no more than six months
before the date the application was received;
(5) an official graduate
transcript(s);
(6) a
practicum/graduate intern documentation form;
(7) a supervisory agreement form;
and
(8) The holder of a current
license in good standing issued by another jurisdiction equivalent to the Texas
LPC Associate license must submit official verification of his or her license,
including official verification of any supervised experience recognized by the
issuing jurisdiction. If supervised experience cannot be verified by the
issuing jurisdiction, the Council may consider a supervised experience
documentation form with verification of the supervisor's credentials.
(b) To apply for LPC as the holder
of a current Texas LPC Associate license, the applicant must submit:
(1) the Council's application form;
(2) all applicable fees;
(3) completion certificate for the
jurisprudence exam dated no more than six months before the date the
application for LPC was received;
(4) the Council's supervised experience
documentation form; and
(5) other
information or forms as requested by the Council.
(c) To apply for LPC as the holder of a
current license equivalent to a Texas LPC license issued by another
jurisdiction, the applicant's license must be in good standing and must submit:
(1) all of the items listed in subsection
(a)(1)- (5) of this section;
(2)
official verification of the license, including official verification of any
supervised experience recognized by the issuing jurisdiction; and
(3) other information or forms as requested
by the Council.
(4) The five-year
expiration of the NCE or NCMHCE score does not apply to an applicant who has
held a license issued by a United States jurisdiction in good standing for at
least two (2) years before the date the application for LPC was
received.
(d) To apply
for supervisor status, an LPC must:
(1) have
held the LPC license in good standing for at least 60 months;
(2) submit an application and all applicable
fees; and
(3) submit a completion
certificate for an acceptable supervisor training. An acceptable supervisor
training is:
(A) a doctoral level course in
the supervision of professional counseling or mental health services which was
taken for credit at an accredited school and documented on an official
transcript; the qualifying doctoral level course may have been completed no
more than five (5) years before the date the application for supervisor status
was received; or
(B) a
40-clock-hour supervision course as set forth in §
681.147
of this title (relating to 40-Clock-Hour Supervisor Training Course); the
qualifying 40-clock-hour supervision course may have been completed no more
than two (2) years before the date the application for supervisor status was
received.
(e)
An applicant who holds a current LPC license in good standing issued by another
jurisdiction must be substantially equivalent to Texas licensure
requirements.
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