License: Professional Counselor Associate

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410 Capitol Avenue

P.O.Box 340308

Hartford, CT 06134-0308

(860) 509-7603

Pursuant to Governor Lamont’s Executive Order 7V professional counselor associates who have completed the required education may practice as a professional counselor associate without obtaining a license for the duration of the COVID-19 civil preparedness emergency. Earned a graduate degree in clinical mental health counseling as part of a program of higher learning accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), or a successor organization; OR Completed at least sixty graduate semester hours in counseling or a related mental health field at a regionally accredited institution of higher education that included coursework in each of the following areas: Human growth and development; social and cultural foundations; counseling theories; counseling techniques; group counseling; career counseling; appraisals or tests and measurements to individuals and groups; research and evaluation; professional orientation to mental health counseling; addiction and substance abuse counseling; trauma and crisis counseling; and diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders; Completed a one-hundred-hour practicum in counseling taught by a faculty member licensed or certified as a professional counselor or its equivalent in another state; Completed a six-hundred-hour clinical mental health counseling internship taught by a faculty member licensed or certified as a professional counselor or its equivalent in another state; and Earned from a regionally accredited institution of higher education a graduate degree in counseling or a related mental health field.