The Counseling Compact: Practicing Legally & Ethically Across State Lines

The Counseling Compact will become a reality within a few months. Under this interstate compact qualified professional counselors in the 30+ Compact Member States will be able to legally practice to and/or from other Compact Member States. The Counseling Compact is poised to create a pivotal change in the Professional Counseling landscape; further, its impact will be felt in the other mental health professions by greatly increasing professional counselors' ability to serve clients in dozens of other states.

If you own a private practice or manage services at an organization/agency, you will need to know about the opportunities that will result from the Counseling Compact. You won't want to be behind the curve on this. Importantly, if you have a specialty practice or work for an organization that serves special populations the Counseling Compact can allow access to your services by new clients across the country.

The extensive course materials are packed with practical information and resources.

Examples of content:

• What is the Counseling Compact and how does it work?
• Who is eligible to become a Compact counselor?
• States currently involved in the Counseling Compact
• When could I begin practicing under the Compact?
• Process for obtaining Compact privileges
• Compacts, one of the Five Provisions for legal cross-state practice
• Why the Counseling Compact will affect all psychotherapists
• Misconceptions and myths about cross-state practice
• Misunderstandings about the Counseling Compact
• Interstate compacts and their implications for private practices & organizations
• more

Terry Casey, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, HSP (TN #1975) conducts a variety of webinars/seminars on topics (e.g., teletherapy/interjurisdictional practice/interstate compacts, advanced ethics & legal issues; ethics & legal issues with minors, ethical & legal issues in private practice)* for counseling and mental health professionals across the country. For the past 15 years, he has taught Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Lipscomb University's CACREP-accredited M.S. program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. For 17 years he served as the Clinical Director for a large counseling and psychological services organization based in Nashville. He also served for several years as the Chair of the Ethics Committee Chair for a state-level professional organization. Dr. Casey operates a private practice in Franklin, Tennessee through which he provides consultation services to private practices and counseling/mental health-related organizations.

*For a complete list see Rencounselingtn.com.

Upon completion of the training participants will be able to . . .

1. Identify and describe the five legal provisions for practicing across state lines.
2. Explain the purpose and function of the Counseling Compact.
3. Describe the process of how Professional Counselors will be able to practice across state lines through the Counseling Compact.
4. Discuss the implications of the Counseling Compact for professional practice

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This seminar provides 3.0 NBCC CE hours. Continuing education requirements of the various licensing boards for different mental health professions in different states can change without notice. Always check your licensing rules/board to be sure about your current CE requirements.

This seminar provides 3.0 CE hours (3.0 NBCC hours) through Renaissance Counseling & Psychological Specialists (RCPS) (NBCC ACEP no. 7457). Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. RCPS is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Attendees must meet NBCC requirements including: (1)completing and passing a CE quiz after the webinar has concluded, and (2) completing a brief course evaluation form after the webinar.

This event will be recorded for the purposes of offering a home-study version of this program as a separate program at a later date.

By turning on one's camera and/or microphone during the event participants thereby give permission for their images and/or audio to be potentially included in the aforementioned recorded version of this program by RCPS. Participants will have full control over their camera/video and microphone/audio throughout the event. Other means for communicating with other participants (e.g., chat) are typically available to participants during this type of event.

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(Registration and payment are available only through this Eventbrite registration site.)

All registrants will receive the webcast materials via email a few days before the event. The materials will be sent to the email address provided by the registrant at registration. Important! The email containing the materials will be sent from [email protected] (NOT through Eventbrite).

The email will include:

(1) a copy of all slides shared during the webinar,

(2) comprehensive reference list,

(3) ZOOM link for joining the webinar.

(NOTE: The required course evaluation form and CE quiz will be emailed a day or two before the event.)

If you have not received the materials by July 10, please check (1) your spam folder and (2) any other email accounts that you or someone else might have used to register you for the event. One of these two situations is usually the case. If you still do not find the materials email [email protected] no later than July 10.

The required course evaluation form and CE quiz will be emailed to participants 1-2 days before the event to the address that was used for your registration. If you have not received the materials by July 12, please:
(1) check your spam folder and

(2) check any other email accounts that you or someone else might have used to register you for the event.

If you still do not locate the materials email [email protected].

Yes. A recording of this live webcast is planned. The planned recording will be used to create a separate home-study version of this program at some point in the future. Note that registration for the live webcast does not provide access to the later home-study program.

To receive a CE certificate attendees must complete the course evaluation form and complete/pass the CE quiz. A passing score on the quiz is 14/20. The quiz may be retaken. Partial CE credits are not available. CE certificates will be emailed to the address used to register the participant for the event. Certificates are processed as quickly as possible but please allow up to two weeks to receive the certificate. Note that the CE certificate will bear the date that the quiz was received with a passing score as this is the date that the participant is deemed to have completed the program.

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