#353 - 7 Things that Will Sabotage Couples Counseling
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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How to Become a Mental Health Professional
In order to become licensed as a mental health professional, it requires a master's degree in counseling clinical social work. As part of that graduate program, there is typically an internship that provides some experience. So you could be working with a counselor that had zero contact with any kind of client or practice and counseling before they actually were a counselor. You complete the education, you complete the hours and then you graduate,. Then upon graduation, you move into a period of time which is like a post graduate training in supervision experience where you are actively seeing clients. It can vary a little bit by license, I think for MFTs, it's what, 1500 client contact hours at this point and probably a
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