Am I eligible for state licensure upon graduation from ASU’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program?
The curriculum of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program has been designed to aid graduates in meeting the academic coursework requirements outlined by the North Carolina Board of Licensed Professional Counselors (NCBLPC) . Our 60 credit hour Clinical Mental Health Counseling program exceeds the minimum state requirement of 48 hours of graduate study in a counseling degree program. The state of North Carolina also requires applicants to pass the National Counselor Exam (NCE) and to have 2000 hours of supervised post-graduate counseling experience over a course of two years to apply for licensure. Graduates of our Clinical Mental Health Counseling program will be provided the opportunity to sit for the NCE prior to graduation. In addition, because the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program is CACREP accredited in community counseling, the NCBLPC allows the 700 hours of practicum and internship supervised training of graduates to be applied toward the 2000 hours of supervised e
