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NEW LIMITED LISENCED COUNSELOR (LLC) HELP SESSION - SCHEDULED!
The first two New LPC Help Sessions are $55 each and are scheduled:
Session 1: Monday 9/12 @ 7pm - 8:30pm
Session 2: 12/5 @5pm-6:30pm
Michigan LPC Supervisor rule changes as of May 2023
LARA introduced new rules for LPC Supervisors in Michigan in May 2023. How can you be sure your supervisor meets these requirements?
Updates for Michigan LLPC from Lara
There is a large list of changes that the Board of Counseling is proposing to be pushed through. Below is a link to the complete rules with proposed changes. These changes are not finalized yet, but looks like they will all be shortly. Here are the highlights that can affect you: …
Michigan telehealth and the limited licensed counselor
…An exert from the Michigan Mental Health Code reads “Telemedicine means the use of an electronic media to link patients with health care professionals in different locations. To be considered telemedicine under this section, the health care professional must be able to examine the patient via a [HIPAA] compliant, secure, interactive audio or video or both telecommunications system or through the use of store and forward online messaging.”
Can a Limited Licensed Counselor practice alone in Michigan?
It really feels like the field of mental health care (hopefully soon more widely known as just health care) is rapidly changing. There are so many opportunities out there for Limited Licenses Counselors (LLC), formally Limited Licensed Professional Counselors (LLPC), in Michigan and all around the country. With so many people feeling the weight of the last several years of fear, anxiety, grief and transition our services are very much needed.
Opportunities to join large agencies, virtual platforms, or a private practice are everywhere. Just because opportunities….
New Michigan Limited Licesned Counselor (LLC) Help Session
The first two New LPC Help Sessions are $55 each and are scheduled:
Session 1: Monday 9/12 @ 7pm - 8:30pm
Session 2: 12/5 @5pm-6:30pm
What to expect beginning Supervision to obtain full LPC in Michigan
Supervision with an Approved Clinical Supervisor in Michigan may look a little different supervisor to supervisor. Essentially, we are all trying to support Limited Licensed counselors in completing their supervised working hours and supervision hours over the course…
What happens when a client doesn’t Pay?
If you’re working in private practice, you’ll most likely experience a client (or two) who end up having unpaid invoice(s). The money part of private practice counseling can be really challenging for a lot of us. This profession brings ALL the helpers together, and we just want to do that - help. Brining up the financial aspect of counseling sessions, especially after there has been a lapse in payment, is common to…
Michigan Counselors go from LLPC to LLC in 2022
Miss the latest? I know I did… Limited Licensed Professional Counselors (LLPC) in Michigan are now called Limited Licensed Counselors (LLC). Small change, but LARGE impact.
You know what shouldn’t be difficult….finding the answer to when this change in title happened and what expectations LARA has for, now, Limited Licensed Counselors. Nevertheless - we…
The no Suprises Act and the Michgian LPC
Michigan LPC and Virtual Platforms for therapy
Talkspace, BetterHelp, etc. are now top search results when looking for a therapist in your area. Often some form of a virtual platform returns in the top results regardless of the region/state/city in which you’re searching for a mental health professional. Even prior to COVID these virtual…
Michigan’s Return to Work Plan and the LLPC
Writing the perfect psychology today profile
Questions to ask a potential LLPC Supervisor
Tele-health; how to begin a successful online practice
It’s seeming like we’ll be living in this virtual world for sometime. Whether or not you’ve embraced this change, or have entered some form of tela-health with great concerns - it’s here to stay. The differences between a virtual practice and an in person, face to face, practice are very minimal. While reading the rest of this post, I want you to keep that thought in mind. This blog will focus on the personal connection that is important to make with clients in a virtual space, I’ll address ways we need to be following HIPAA and privacy/confidentiality in a later post.
How to choose a specality as a new LLPC in Michigan
As a new LLPC in Michigan (maybe even a New LLPC in Michigan looking for a supervisor? click here) you’re probably in search of your first job as a professional counselor. Hopefully your practicum/internship was successful in giving you an idea of the type of work you’d like to do (or NOT do for that matter). As you’re online, searching for opportunities for limited licensed professional counselors in your area you’ll notice that the search engine results return thousands of options! COVID 19 has…
Updates to the Professional disclosure required by Michigan Lara
!!UPDATED!! - I received confirmation from LARA on 3/25/21 that a supervisors signature is no longer required on your disclosure statement. Only the supervisors license number.
The Michigan llpc should take the nce NOW
Newly graduated counseling masters students find a supervisor, apply for their LLPC (limited license professional counselor), and start working to gain experience. Most gather the minimum of 3,000 supervised working hours in just about 2 years (2 years being the minimum length of time the state allows to be eligible to apply for full LPC licensure). These working experience hours combined with 100 hours of direct supervision are part of what’s needed in the LPC application for full licensure…along with passing scores on the National Counselors Examination (NCE).
Newly graduated Michigan LLPC, now what?
Graduation is over! You're done and you've got some really cool letters to go after your name now. If you're like most of the new graduates I know - this is a time of excitement and.... tremendous fear, apprehension and a lot of ok....now what?
