Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CACREP) – Connecticut
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Connecticut requires applicants for this licensure have a master’s in clinical mental health counseling accredited by CACREP, with 60 credit hours.
Required Coursework:
- Human Growth and Development
- Social and Cultural Foundations
- Counseling Theories and Techniques
- Group Counseling
- Addiction and Substance Abuse Counseling
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental and Emotional Disorders
- Career Counseling
- Appraisals or Tests and Measurements for Individuals and Groups
- Research and Evaluation
- Professional Orientation to Mental Health Counseling
- Trauma and Crisis Counseling
- Practicum: one-hundred hours
- Internship: six-hundred hours