State Licensure Requirements
Liberty does not meet education requirements.

Addiction Counseling – Wyoming

Addictions Therapist (LAT)

Wyoming requires that applicants for this licensure have a graduate degree in a mental health discipline from a regionally accredited college or university with twenty-two (22) semester hours of coursework (either graduate or undergraduate) completed in each of the core areas defined herein. A course may not be used to satisfy more than one area. (3 semester credits = 4 quarter credits.)

Course Requirements
  • Counseling Theories – (3 semester credits) Theories and principles of counseling and psychotherapy
  • Counseling Skills – (3 semester credits) Methods and techniques of individual and group counseling
  • Practicum in Addictions/Chemical Dependency Counseling – (3 semester credits)
  • Counseling Ethics – (3 semester credits)

Course work must be completed in each of the following five (5) subject areas for a minimum of ten (10) combined semester hours

  • Alcoholism: To include biochemical, socio-cultural, and psychological factors
  • Drugs and Behavior: A survey of drugs with abuse potential other than alcohol that affect behavior including psychopharmacological information
  • Addictions/Chemical Dependency and Special Populations: (i.e., adolescents, women, ethnic groups, elderly, adult children of alcoholics, the impaired family, impaired professional, etc.)
  • Addictive Behaviors: Gambling, eating disorders, sexual addictions, cults, compulsive behaviors of non-ingestive nature, etc.
  • *Addictions/Chemical Dependency Assessment: Appraisal, assessment, testing, diagnosis/dual diagnosis. This category may also be satisfied by completing specialty training.

Six (6) contact hours of specialty training must be completed in communicable diseases. This category may be satisfied by completing college course work or workshops. A semester credit = 15 contact hours. A quarter credit = 10 contact hours.

Additional Requirements

Applicants need six contact clock hours of training in communicable diseases.

For more information:

https://mentalhealth.wyo.gov/professionals-1/forms

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K5vyzOG5fGxNop3I4A8Un5GVlYdpY_N-aI3aREz4zXA/edit