How does the Committee accomplish its purpose?
The Committee protects the public by: • making sure all professional counselors meet the requirements set by statute; • investigating and prosecuting professional counselors who break the States consumer protection laws; and • requiring all professional counselors to be licensed and to renew their licenses biennially. How do professional counselors become licensed by the State? A person applying for licensure as a professional counselor submits an application showing that he or she is at least 18 years of age and is of good moral character. Applicants must have a minimum of 60 graduate semester hours in a planned educational program, which included a masters degree or doctorate in counseling from a regionally accredited institution of higher education, of which 45 graduate semester hours are distributed in eight of nine core course work areas. Applicants must have had at least three years of supervised full-time counseling experience, one year of which may be obtained prior to the gran
