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Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CACREP) – Alabama

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

Beginning January 1, 2024, Alabama requires applicants for this licensure have a master’s in counseling from a CACREP program, with 60 credit hours.

Required Coursework:

  • Counseling Theory
  • Human Growth and Development
  • Social and Multicultural Foundations
  • The Helping Relationship
  • Group Dynamics, Processing and Counseling
  • Lifestyle and Career Development
  • Appraisal of Individuals
  • Research and Evaluation
  • Professional Orientation
  • Practicum: total of one hundred (100) clock hours. A minimum of forty (40) clock hours must be direct service work with clients
  • Internship: minimum of six hundred (600) clock hours, to include: a minimum of two hundred and forty (240) hours of direct service work with clients

https://abec.alabama.gov/faqs/abec-academic-requirements-for-licensure-faq/

https://abec.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/abec-academic-requirements-072222-cacrep.pdf