An applicant for licensure as a professional counselor supervisor must:

1. (1) submit an application on forms approved by the Board, along with the required fee; and
2. (2) hold a current, active, and unrestricted South Carolina Professional Counselor License; and

3. (3) either (a) or (b):

   1. (a) hold a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision, or

   2. (b) provide:

      1. (i) evidence acceptable to the Board of at least five (5) years of continuous clinical experience immediately preceding the application; and

      2. (ii) evidence of a minimum of thirty-six (36) hours of individual/triadic supervision over no less than a two-year period, by a Board licensed professional counselor supervisor, or other qualified mental health practitioner approved by the Board prior to beginning supervision, of the applicant’s supervision of at least two (2) and no more than six (6) licensed professional counselor associates; and

         (iii) evidence of a minimum of three (3) semester hours of graduate study in supervision oriented to their discipline or training approved by the Board.

HISTORY: Added by State Register Volume 25, Issue No. 5, Part 2, eff May 25, 2001. Amended by State Register Volume 30, Issue No. 5, eff May 26, 2006; SCSR 42-5 Doc. No. 4795, eff May 25, 2018; SCSR 43-5 Doc. No. 4850, eff May 24, 2019; SCSR 46-5 Doc. No. 5075, eff May 27, 2022.