Why does supervised professional practice require on-site, case-by-case supervision?
A. The people who wrote the LPC licensing law and the legislators who passed the law did not intend for people right out of graduate school to work as counselors with no more than one hour of supervision for every 40 hours worked. The law included a list of exempt sites where people could work without licenses; exempt sites are places where licensure applicants may get supervised practice. On-site supervision is provided at all the listed exempt sites and that is why they are exempt; on-site supervision helps protect clients (and employers) from errors in judgment made by inexperienced counselors.
