Where Can a MAP Degree Take Your License?

A $35 registration with Idaho's licensing division that lets you see Idaho-located clients from your Washington office. No exam, no transcript review, no Idaho license. Telehealth only: no in-person work in Idaho, and the registration never converts into a license.

Now, with a full unencumbered WA license.

None.

None reviewed.

Idaho Code §54-5714 was added to the Idaho Virtual Care Access Act (Title 54, ch. 57) by 2023 Idaho Session Laws ch. 142, §1; the statute's official published text shows no separate effective-date clause beyond that 2023 enactment.

• Non-transferable, and it expires on a cycle rather than renewing, so calendar the reapplication.
• Your scope in Idaho is capped at what your WA license allows.

Registers an out-of-state licensee to serve Florida clients by telehealth with no Florida license. Requires an active unencumbered license, a Florida registered agent for service of process, and professional liability coverage. No in-person services in Florida and no Florida office.

Now, with a full unencumbered WA license and no discipline in the past five years.

None.

None reviewed.

• If the full Florida license lands by endorsement, the registration is unnecessary; do not buy both.
• The registered-agent requirement means a small ongoing cost even at zero clients.

Registers an out-of-state behavioral health licensee to serve Arizona clients by telehealth. Requires proof of all licenses, professional liability insurance, and an Arizona statutory agent; the fee is board-set and unpublished in the rules. Annual renewal plus an annual report of Arizona patient counts. Telehealth only.

Now, with a full unencumbered WA license and no disciplinary history anywhere (stricter than the licensure routes).

None.

None reviewed.

• You may not need it at all: Arizona exempts anyone with fewer than ten Arizona telehealth encounters a calendar year, and separately allows up to ninety days of practice a year with client disclosure (A.R.S. 32-3271(A)(2)).
• Confirm the fee with the board before filing; the widely quoted $600 belongs to the psychology board.

A 2025 statute creating an interstate telehealth registration for out-of-state licensees to serve West Virginia clients. The statute is real; whether the counseling board has implemented the registration process is not confirmed.

On paper, now; in practice, once the board stands the process up.

None per the statute.

None per the statute.

W. Va. Code §30-1-26 was most recently amended by Senate Bill 299 of the 2025 Regular Session, per the bill-history record printed on the WV Legislature's official code page; that page does not display the bill's specific effective date.

• Confirm implementation with the board before relying on it; their website has lagged the 2025 statutes before.

Registers an out-of-state licensee to serve Delaware clients by telehealth without a Delaware license. Carries one trap for this cohort: read literally, the eligibility provision (24 Del. C. §6002(c)) bars licensees of any state that has enacted a compact Delaware participates in — and Washington has, even though no privileges flow yet. A full read of chapter 60 adds the counterweight: §6005(b) is a mental-health-specific exception letting a provider licensed in another jurisdiction treat Delaware residents by telehealth on a Medical Request Form plus whatever registration the Division establishes — and it contains no compact-state bar. Whether the Division's registration program implements §6002(c) (the bar) or §6005(b) (no bar) is the question that decides the trap.

Ask first: whether the compact-state bar is applied literally decides everything.

None.

None reviewed.

The operative Delaware provision, 24 Del. C. §6002(c), was enacted as 83 Del. Laws c. 52, §4 and amended by 83 Del. Laws c. 484, §1; no separate later act specifically adding the compact-state bar was located.

• The bar is confirmed by the regulator's own application page: an applicant must 'not be actively licensed in a state that has enacted a compact in which Delaware participates.' Washington has. On the official language, a Washington LMHC does not qualify — ask only if you want to test a narrower reading.

New in 2026 and verified on the regulator's own pages: Colorado registers out-of-state health-care providers — mental health providers expressly included — to serve Colorado clients by telehealth without any Colorado license (SB24-141 framework, registrations open January 1, 2026). The requirements are an application and fee, a valid out-of-state credential, a clean disciplinary record for the five years before applying, Colorado's mental-health jurisprudence exam, and disclosure duties; the counselor licensing guide adds a telehealth-only attestation and a registered agent in Colorado.

Open now, from Washington, with the full license in hand.

Colorado Mental Health Jurisprudence Exam if passage is required of substantially-similar Colorado licensees (the FAQ's own conditional phrasing — for mental health professions it is, so plan on it). No national exam re-tested.

Not reviewed — the registration rides entirely on the out-of-state credential.

SB24-141 (2024) created the out-of-state telehealth registration; 2025 legislation expanded the covered professions, and registrations opened January 1, 2026 per the Division's FAQ.

• Telehealth only, strictly: in-person services in Colorado are prohibited on this registration, and it never converts to residency rights — moving to Colorado means the endorsement route.
• Real operational duties attach: patient-location and provider-location disclosures, a written emergency protocol with local crisis-resource lists for where the client sits, and staying on the line during an emergency until help arrives.
• Five-year clean-discipline lookback; any restriction, discipline, or malpractice settlement must be disclosed.
• Untested by this cohort — registrations only opened this year; treat processing details (fees, the registered-agent mechanics) as unverified until someone files.

The cohort's shared math: privileges require the home-state license to rest on 90 quarter / 60 semester hours covering nine areas — every MAP grad is 18 quarter hours short, and career development is the most commonly missing area. The exam is not a problem (NCE or NCMHCE both satisfy the commission). Cure = added graduate coursework to 90 quarter including your missing areas.

After (1) your ~18-quarter cure, (2) Washington flags you compact-eligible (mechanism unpublished — DOH has opened no rulemaking), and (3) WA goes live (absent from every announcement; late 2027 at the earliest). Payoff: the 40 member states as they activate (Pennsylvania the newest, enacted July 2026), at modest per-state fees, without individual applications.

NCE or NCMHCE.

The 'or includes 60 semester/90 quarter hours of graduate coursework' phrasing in Washington's statute is a genuine textual argument that post-degree supplementation counts. Unconfirmed for the compact clause specifically, but the department's posture leans that way: DOH's own licensure rules expressly let related-degree holders complete supplemental coursework to cure missing program equivalencies (WAC 246-809-220(3), as amended May 2025). The DOH counselor program office is the place to ask, and one graduate's written answer serves everyone.

Washington's Counseling Compact statute — ch. 18.17 RCW, together with the related-discipline eligibility clause at RCW 18.225.090 — was enacted by Substitute House Bill 1069, chapter 58, Laws of 2023, effective July 23, 2023.

• A privilege covers practicing into member states while Washington remains your primary residence — it is never a relocation path.
• Licenses obtained via some states' universal-recognition routes are excluded from anchoring privileges.

Counselling is unregulated in BC until Nov 29, 2027, when psychotherapy becomes a regulated profession under CHCPBC. The market credential meanwhile is BCACC's RCC — and the MAP degree maps cleanly onto its six required course areas (none of the usual gap areas are required).

RCC now, at any license stage: it keys to the degree and supervision record, not the license (registration finalizes once residing in Canada). Holding it before Nov 2027 is the best grandparenting position for the new college.

None.

MAP coursework generally satisfies RCC's areas; 100 supervision hours including 25 directly observed is the item to verify from your records.

B.C. Reg. 131/2025 (Health and Care Professionals Regulation) followed the July 2024 designation of psychotherapy for regulation under the Health Professions and Occupations Act; per both CHCPBC's official page and the BC Ministry of Health's July 2026 Q&A, its psychotherapist provisions are not yet in force and take effect November 29, 2027, when CHCPBC becomes the regulator.

• Grandparenting into the 2027 college is expected but unannounced.
• Immigration is its own project and nothing here addresses it.

Corroborated in writing, across three answers from the board's own licensing specialist: Colorado's endorsement route (the board's own rule, 4 CCR 737-1.12(C)(1)(b)) licenses an applicant who has held a current, unrestricted, substantially-similar-scope license for one year — and the board's license specialist confirmed the education review on that route is conferral-only: 'For the education requirement, you are only required to submit an official transcript verifying that a master's degree was awarded.' No equivalency worksheet, no credit count, no course list. The 60-hour floor and 6-credit cure cap that once closed this state live on the by-examination route and do not reach endorsement applicants. The specialist's third answer settled the remaining questions: associate-level practice counts toward the application's two-year practice attestation, and a psychology-titled degree passes on the transcript alone — moving Colorado into the open tier for anyone with a current license and two years of post-master's practice. The shared board inbox will not interpret rules; the licensing specialist answered all of it in writing.

Open now, for anyone holding a current equivalent license who can attest to two years of post-master's psychotherapy practice — associate-level practice counts, per the specialist's written confirmation, so most of this cohort's licensed members qualify today. Documents: license verification, official transcript showing the degree was awarded, the attestations, and the jurisprudence exam. (The board rule's one-year-license prong remains the paper fallback if the practice reading ever fails.)

Board jurisprudence exam, mandatory for every endorsement applicant (4 CCR 737-1.12(D), via Prometric). National exam expressly required only on the education prong.

Conferral-only on the endorsement route, per the specialist's written answer — the transcript proves a master's was awarded, and nothing in it is graded.

The portability program dates to HB 20-1326 (2020); the operative board rule version is effective 2025-09-14, and HB 26-1431 (2026) amends the framework for applications filed on or after 2026-08-12.

• One internal contradiction to carry into any filing: the licensing guide's 'all applicants' section says non-CACREP transcripts need a CCE education review, while the license specialist's written answer says endorsement applicants submit only a transcript proving the degree was awarded. The specialist's direct answer controls — keep it with the application in case an intake reviewer follows the brochure instead.
• The specialist confirmed in writing (2026-08-20): associate-level practice counts toward the two-year practice attestation, and a psychology-titled master's satisfies the education requirement with the transcript alone. Keep all three of the specialist's emails with any application.
• A staff answer is informal and non-binding; the jurisprudence exam is mandatory; and this route becomes validated only when a cohort application is adjudicated.
• Get the license in hand before relocating — and note Colorado now also has a telehealth registration (see the remote-practice section) for serving Colorado clients from Washington without any of this.

The licensing bureau’s written answer (2026-08-21) redrew this entry: endorsement is open to any active out-of-state licensee — no time frame — and Washington’s LMHC is deemed equivalent to Idaho’s clinical LCPC, with the license verification standing in for the whole review: “If you met the requirements to become licensed as LMHC, then we know you met the requirements for LCPC licensure.” The stated document set is the license numbers you hold or have held plus a photo ID. The alternative exam route keeps the rule-book requirements (CACREP-or-substantially-similar program, NCE for the LPC tier, NCMHCE for the clinical tier, supervised-hours math), with the coursework addendum required only for non-CACREP degrees — that route, not endorsement, is where the coursework project would live.

Open now, on the licensing bureau’s written word: an active license, the license numbers held in any state, and a photo ID. The five-plus-years language printed on the applications is routing text the bureau does not apply as a gate.

Endorsement: the bureau’s stated document set is exhaustive (“You only need to submit…”) and lists no exam element. Exam route (the alternative): NCE for the LPC tier, NCMHCE for the clinical LCPC tier, per the current rule text the specialist quoted.

Endorsement: not reviewed — the equivalence determination stands in for it, per the written answer. Exam route: CACREP-or-substantially-similar program standard, with the coursework addendum only for non-CACREP degrees; the three-lists confusion documented earlier applies to that route only.

IDAPA 24.15.01 states it is promulgated pursuant to Idaho Code §§54-3402, 54-3404, 54-3405, 54-3405A, 54-3405B, 54-3405C, 54-3406, and 54-3410A, and every subsection in the current text carries a (7-1-24) effective-date stamp.

• The 2026-08-21 answer settles by practice what the repealed rule left open — but it also contradicts the five-plus-years routing printed on both applications, and the rewritten rule chapter still contains no endorsement standard. A single specialist’s answer is corroboration, not law: carry the email, and expect intake staff reading their own forms to need it.
• Idaho publishes three incompatible content-area lists and three inconsistent fee schedules simultaneously; treat every Idaho number as unconfirmed until the board says it in writing.
• Idaho is not a compact member — the license or the validated telehealth registration are the only doors, ever.
• The universal-recognition statute (§67-9409) does not bypass any of this (it preserves ordinary qualifications).

Indiana's education wall (the non-curable practicum in 839 IAC 1-5-1) lives entirely on the licensure-by-examination route. A separate statute, IC 25-23.6-8.5-9.5, orders the board to issue an LMHC license within 30 days of a complete application to anyone holding a valid out-of-state license who passed a substantially equivalent exam — no transcript, no coursework review, no practicum question, no residency, no minimum years. The licensing agency implements it openly: its site carries a dedicated LMHC Reciprocity section, and the checklist asks for license verification and an exam score, nothing about education.

Now — if your exam is the NCMHCE. The board reads 'substantially equivalent examination' to mean the NCMHCE specifically and rejects the NCE by name, so NCE-only licensees stay out until they sit the NCMHCE (or the compact arrives).

NCMHCE required on this route; the NCE is expressly not accepted. This is the sharpest example of the exam problem: Indiana takes only the exam that Pennsylvania's list omits.

Not reviewed on the reciprocity route. The practicum bar that closed Indiana applies only to applicants qualifying by examination.

IC 25-23.6-8.5-9.5 has ordered issuance to out-of-state licensees since 2017; its current text dates to P.L.149-2022. The general health-care reciprocity chapter (IC 25-1-21, 2022) expressly carves mental health counselors out — the profession-specific statute is the operative one.

• The board is stricter than the statute: the law's exam test is functional ('substantially equivalent'), the checklist's is a named instrument (NCMHCE yes, NCE no). An NCE-holder could contest that reading, but plan around it.
• No reciprocity rule exists in the administrative code — the route runs on statute plus the agency's checklist, so confirm current requirements before filing.
• Indiana is live on the compact, so remote practice from Washington arrives by privilege once Washington goes live — relocation is what this route is for.

Endorsement (481—880.5(1)): application + fee + license verification is the entire review — the consolidated Chapter 880 rulemaking (ARC 9401C, effective August 13, 2025) implements 2024's HF 2515 and SF 2385 at the chapter level — the endorsement paragraph's bare application-plus-fee-plus-verification text is confirmed verbatim against the rule, though the rulemaking's own summary ties HF 2515 most concretely to the supervision rule rather than this one. Whether the leniency was the specific intent or a byproduct of consolidation, the text is the text; ask the board if you want certainty before filing.

Now, with a full license.

Not reviewed.

Not reviewed.

Iowa's endorsement rule 481—880.5 reached its current application-plus-fee-plus-verification form through ARC 9401C, the Board of Behavioral Health Professionals' adopted rulemaking published in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin on July 9, 2025 and effective August 13, 2025, which created a consolidated new Chapter 880 implementing 2024 Iowa Acts House File 2515 and Senate File 2385 (90th General Assembly, 2024 session).

• A background check may still occur under separate authority.
• If endorsement is refused there's a licensure-by-verification fallback — but a verification license can never anchor compact privileges later.

Expedited endorsement (NRS 641A.242): the board must issue to a holder of a corresponding unrestricted license — no education review, no exam, no experience review. A 2025 amendment (AB 450) made it mandatory and deleted the board's open-ended documentation catch-all.

Now, as far as the statute's text goes; no years-licensed wait appears in it.

None on this path.

None reviewed.

NRS 641A.242 took its current mandatory form through Assembly Bill 450 of the 2025 Nevada Legislature, enacted as Chapter 315, Statutes of Nevada 2025, effective October 1, 2025, which changed the Board's issuance duty from 'may' to 'shall' and struck both the applicant's burden to prove no prior investigation and the Board's open-ended 'any other information required by the Board' documentation clause.

• The corresponding-license determination happens in adjudication, not by email - the staff reply is an invitation to apply, not a ruling.
• NO provisional or temporary license in practice, contra NRS 641A.242(5)'s text (staff statement 2026-08-11). Plan on full processing time with no bridge credential.
• Confirm current fees and Certemy mechanics on the board's reciprocity page.
• Mirror hazard: third-party code sites still print the pre-amendment 'may issue' text of NRS 641A.242 even though the mandatory version took effect October 1, 2025 — cite the enrolled bill or the official legislature page, not a mirror.

Reciprocity under Plc 313.37: Washington is on OPLC's published qualifying-jurisdictions table for Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Reciprocity applicants submit NO transcripts and no exam scores — the 60-hour test was applied to Washington's standards, not to you.

Now, with a full license — no minimum time holding it appears anywhere in the rule or on the table.

Not examined on the reciprocity track.

Not examined.

New Hampshire's RSA 310:17 license-reciprocity provision was enacted by 2023 N.H. Laws ch. 111:1 (HB 594, 2023 session), effective August 27, 2023, per the source note printed on the statute's own General Court page — the statutory basis for the OPLC qualifying-jurisdictions table on which Washington appears.

• Verify Washington is still on the table the week you file — it's an agency-maintained list, not a statute.
• Universal application + fee + license verification + FBI check is the whole packet.

Occupational-licensing reciprocity (ORC ch. 4796): licensed 1+ year in good standing with substantially similar scope — and Ohio dropped the NCMHCE requirement for the LPCC effective Jan 1, 2026, which invalidates every older guide.

Open now, per the board's own written answer (2026-08-21): 'You do not need to hold an out of state license for one year to qualify for a license via reciprocity.' The one-year-plus-active-practice clock belongs to the ch. 4796 universal statute; the board processes counselor reciprocity under its own rule (OAC 4757-13-06), which sets no time floor.

Settled twice over: the 1/1/2026 policy change on the board's live instructions page, and now the board's written answer — 'The NCE will suffice for LPCC licensure requirements.'

Light under reciprocity.

Ohio Revised Code chapter 4796 (universal occupational-license recognition) was enacted in its entirety by Senate Bill 131 of the 134th General Assembly, effective December 29, 2023 — every section's legislative history on codes.ohio.gov traces to that bill, and House Bill 442 of the 133rd General Assembly never touched the chapter — while the LPCC's separate NCMHCE requirement was eliminated effective January 1, 2026 per the CSWMFT Board's October 17, 2025 announcement.

• Confirm the 2026 exam change still stands when filing.
• Ohio is live on the compact, which matters to the cohort only after the 90-quarter cure.

Endorsement: the board's own application guidance says endorsement applicants need no national-exam verification, and the rule sets no minimum time licensed.

Open now with the full license in hand. Document set per the board: FBI and OSBI fingerprint background checks (two separate checks), official transcript direct from the university, board-to-board license verification (their form or Washington's equivalent), the fee via the online portal — and then the Oklahoma jurisprudence exam, which you register for after the complete application earns an exam eligibility letter.

No national exam for endorsement (Oklahoma never required the NCMHCE for anyone — its rules name only the NCE, confirmed by a full read of the rules text). But the state's own jurisprudence exam — the Oklahoma Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Examination — is mandatory for every endorsement applicant: OAC 86:10-25-3(4), and the board's application page spells out the sequence (complete application → exam eligibility letter → register).

Corroborated in the board's own words: an endorsement application 'does not require a traditional academic review' — the degree is primary-source verified by an official transcript sent directly from the university, and nothing in it is graded.

The three-year mandatory endorsement provision at 59 O.S. §1906(E) was added by Laws 2019, c. 363, §62, effective November 1, 2019, and the companion Universal Licensing Recognition Act at 59 O.S. §4150.1 was added by Laws 2021, c. 342, §2, effective November 1, 2021, per each section's own amendment-history note (available only on the Justia mirror; no official Oklahoma copy would fetch).

• Two warnings straight from the board: do not submit a partial application (the Board will not review or accept it — gather all five items first), and fees are non-refundable once paid.
• The jurisprudence exam is settled by direct read — OAC 86:10-25-3(4) and the board page's Step 4 both require it for endorsement — and no national exam appears anywhere in the endorsement requirements.
• Transcript delivery is specific: electronically from the university bursar to the board's inbox (password-protected), or sealed by mail — not uploaded by you.
• 59 O.S. §1906(E) — the statute's mandatory-endorsement provision — requires three years since initial full (post-provisional) licensure. The board's endorsement rule (86:10-25-3, 'shall issue') sets no time floor, and the board's guidance and written answer put no time condition on endorsement — but nobody has asked the under-three-years question directly. If licensed under three years, ask it before filing.

Endorsement (Reg. 36-14): the regulation's text contains no education, exam, hours, or years-licensed test — licensure on the strength of the out-of-state license — and the board's own webpage endorsement section matches the regulation.

Now, on the text.

Not required by the endorsement regulation.

Not reviewed per the text.

South Carolina's endorsement regulation, S.C. Code Regs. 36-14, took its current lenient form through a State Register rulemaking filed as S.C. State Register Volume 46, Issue 5, Document No. 5075, effective May 27, 2022 — an administrative amendment rather than a numbered session-law act; the compact provisions in the same title (§§40-75-910 to 40-75-1050) were separately enacted by 2024 Act No. 189 (S.610), effective May 21, 2024.

• The regulation is genuinely this lenient, and the board's webpage endorsement section matches it. Do not confuse the 60-hour and exam requirements shown elsewhere on the same LLR page — those belong to the Associate (initial-licensure) pathway, not endorsement.
• The board's levers are an undefined 'other documentation' clause and an equivalent-credential-level test; call to confirm scope before filing.
• The statute's verb is 'may' (§40-75-260(B)(1)) even where the companion section reads unqualified — the board retains discretion; the bare rule being applied as written is exactly what the pending board query asks.

The no-transcript endorsement rule (ARSD 20:68:01:11) belongs to the plain LPC — real, at three years, with an NCE score verification. The LPC-MH, the tier that diagnoses and matches a WA LMHC's scope, runs through a different rule (ARSD 20:73:01:03) and the state's pages require the NCMHCE for it. So South Dakota at +3 buys the non-clinical credential; full scope equivalence is an NCMHCE question.

Open now for most of this cohort, per the board's written answer (Program Manager, 2026-08-21): 'We can count your time under supervision towards the 3 years necessary for licensure by endorsement.' Three continuous years of licensure INCLUDING associate-credential time — which a mid-2023 LMHCA start satisfied by mid-2026. The endorsement still buys the plain LPC only.

LPC: NCE score verification (no retake). LPC-MH: NCMHCE.

Not requested on the endorsement route.

Confirmed deliberate implementation of 2020's SL 2020, ch. 165 — SDCL 36-32-67 carries source note 'SL 2020, ch 165, §21' and SDCL 36-32-68 carries 'SL 2020, ch 165, §22' — with ARSD 20:68:01:11 promulgated as the implementing rule (Law Implemented: SDCL 36-32-67); no separate session law shaped the rule itself.

• Decide which credential you actually need before filing — the easy door leads to the lesser license.
• Never apply on the in-state route: South Dakota won't backdate supervision.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: South Dakota's 2021 endorsement-mandate chapter (SDCL 36-1D) is a dead letter at this board — the endorsement form cites only the ordinary statute and imposes the three-year and exam requirements the mandate chapter never mentions.

Virginia rewrote its endorsement rule effective July 2, 2026 (Virginia Register vol. 42, iss. 20) — and the amendment deleted the former 24-of-60-months practice test is gone. The current rule is a flat six-item list: application, fee, verification of every license you have ever held (with no unresolved board action), verification of a passing score on whatever exam your licensing state required, a current NPDB self-query, and an official transcript documenting completion of a graduate degree program — all prefaced by one gate: you must hold or have held an out-of-state professional counselor license that allows independent assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.

On the current text: as soon as you hold the full, independent WA LMHC. No duration-of-licensure or years-of-practice requirement appears anywhere in the amended rule. Treat this with care — the amendment is weeks old and untested. Confirm with the board before filing.

Whatever exam your licensing state required — the NCE satisfies it for Washington licensees.

An official transcript documenting a completed graduate degree. The amended rule states no hour count and no content list; how the board actually reviews transcripts under the new text is unobserved.

18VAC115-20-45 took its current shape through a Virginia Board of Counseling regulatory amendment published at Virginia Register Volume 42, Issue 20, effective July 2, 2026, which replaced the previously subsection-structured endorsement rule (last amended at Volume 32, Issue 24, effective August 24, 2016) with a flat six-item list carrying no duration-of-licensure threshold.

• The amendment is six weeks old: expect board staff themselves to still be calibrating, and get any eligibility answer in writing.
• Request your certified WA licensure file from DOH early; it remains the slowest document.
• Associate-time questions are moot here now — the gate is holding the independent license, not years of practice.

Universal recognition (W.Va. Code §30-1-27, 2025): the state must issue the license, with no education review and no exam, but only once you establish West Virginia residence. Without residency, West Virginia's telehealth registration serves WV clients from anywhere; see the remote-practice section.

Immediately upon moving there. The telehealth registration works without residency; see the remote-practice section.

No competency exam under universal recognition — though §30-1-27(d) permits the board to require a West Virginia law (jurisprudence) exam.

Not re-reviewed by West Virginia — but §30-1-27(b)(4)-(5) inherits Washington's requirements rather than waiving them: the statute asks whether education, exam and experience standards existed in Washington and whether Washington verifies you met them. The sending state's file is the file.

W. Va. Code §30-1-27, the Universal Professional and Occupational Licensing Act of 2025, was enacted by Senate Bill 458 of the 2025 Regular Session, and §30-1-26 (interstate telehealth registration) was most recently amended by Senate Bill 299 of the same 2025 Regular Session, both per the bill-history records printed on the WV Legislature's official code pages; those pages do not display the bills' specific effective dates.

• The board's website may lag the 2025 statute — confirm implementation.
• A universal-recognition license is WV-only and can't anchor compact privileges.
• The 5-of-7-years endorsement alternative (no residency) lands around license + 5.
• §30-1-27(a)(2) also unlocks without residency for a spouse of an active-duty military member accompanying them to a West Virginia station — a narrow alternative the residency framing above omits.

Two doors at one year: endorsement (§32-3274, no residency required — but the degree must be a master's 'in the applicable field,' and a psychology-titled MA needs pre-clearing) or universal recognition (§32-4302, which the state must grant, with no degree review at all, but which requires Arizona residency). Arizona also has a telehealth registration, covered in the remote-practice section.

Full license date + 1 year, now confirmed: the board's credentialing specialist answered in writing that licenses are not combined to meet the one-year requirement — the license must be at the same practice level, so associate time does not count. Universal recognition (§ 32-4302) works identically with one addition: Arizona residency.

NCE qualifies everywhere in the scheme; no jurisprudence exam, just an online statutes tutorial.

Corroborated in the board's own words: 'The endorsement pathway does not look at the program or hours, however the university must be regionally accredited.' Official transcripts are submitted, but only the degree and the institution's accreditation matter.

Arizona's universal-recognition statute, A.R.S. §32-4302, was enacted by House Bill 2569 of the 2019 regular session, signed April 10, 2019 and effective August 27, 2019, per the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners' own universal-recognition page; the enacting bill and year for the separate §32-3274 endorsement pathway were not determined this pass.

• The specialist's answers carry the board's standard disclaimer (staff may not interpret statute) — treat them as corroboration, keep the email, and expect the same-practice-level reading at intake.
• Ask the board whether a psychology MA passes 'applicable field' before filing endorsement — or moot it with residency-based universal recognition.
• Compact-live state, but that's irrelevant to this cohort until the 90-quarter cure and WA's go-live.
• A §32-4302 universal-recognition license is valid only in Arizona and expressly not compact-eligible (subsection (F)); the endorsement route carries no such limit. (The statute also has a military-spouse door that skips the residency requirement.)

Kansas has a genuinely Mississippi-shaped statute that nobody has wired up. K.S.A. 48-3406 — expanded in 2021 from a military provision to cover anyone who has established or intends to establish Kansas residency — says that notwithstanding any other law, the licensing body shall issue a license to an applicant who has held a similar-scope out-of-state license and worked a year in the occupation. No transcript clause, no education equivalence, a 45-day decision clock, and the license issues probationary then converts. It names the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board expressly. The problem: the BSRB has adopted no implementing regulation and publishes no application for the route, and its ordinary education rule accepts a degree in counseling 'or a related field' but requires the program itself to be identifiable as counselor training (K.A.R. 102-3-3a(b)(1), (f), (g)) — which is where a psychology-titled degree has to make its case. Statute and board practice point in opposite directions; the statute is supposed to win, but no one has made it.

One year in practice + Kansas residency (intent to establish it suffices at filing) — once the BSRB confirms in writing that it processes 48-3406 applications. Without that confirmation, fall back to the cure math below.

The NCMHCE has a substitution: 15 graduate diagnosis credits, 3 years clinical practice, or a diagnostician's attestation — two of three suffice. Under 48-3406, no exam beyond a possible jurisprudence test keyed to Kansas-law differences.

Not reviewed under 48-3406 as written. On the ordinary route, the 60-hour standard with the confirmed supplementation reading (coursework 'as a part of or in addition to' the degree).

K.S.A. 48-3406 began as a military expedited-licensure section and was extended to all residency-establishing applicants effective 2021, with further amendments through 2025. The BSRB's regulation index contains no implementing rule for it.

• Write to the BSRB citing K.S.A. 48-3406 before doing anything else — the board's silence (no rule, no form) is the whole risk. The statute obliges boards to adopt implementing rules; this one hasn't.
• Residency or documented intent to establish it is required — this is a relocation path.
• Get the degree-title reconciliation question answered in writing regardless, in case the universal route stalls and the cure route becomes the plan.

Endorsement at one year: Act 253 of 2024 dropped the old five-year threshold, though the board's own downloadable forms still recite five years.

Full license date + 1 year, on the full license only — the board confirmed in writing (2026-08-20) that associate time does not count. The posted form’s five-year language is stale; submit it as normal.

NCE accepted.

Light under endorsement.

Louisiana's one-year endorsement threshold traces to Act 253 of the 2024 Regular Session (SB 60, Sen. Pressly — the 'Welcome Home Act,' enacted as La. R.S. 37:51-59), which set a statewide one-year universal recognition floor and which the LPC Board's September 20, 2024 Notice of Intent for LAC 46:LX-1101 and 3701 expressly states it amended its rule 'to align with'; Act 457 of the same 2024 Regular Session is a separate act that amended the distinct education-and-hours statute La. R.S. 37:1107.

• The forms-versus-rule conflict is resolved: the board confirmed in writing (2026-08-20) that the one-year rule governs and the posted form should be used as-is while its language is updated.
• Direct-hours check: Louisiana wants 1,900 direct client hours — more than WA's 1,200 minimum, so your logged total matters.
• The endorsement rule requires documentation of at least 40 continuing-education hours within the two years before applying (LAC 46:LX-1101(A)) — a requirement the board's emailed materials list omitted. Washington's biennial minimum is 36 hours, so count your CE before filing; four hours short is a real way to stall an otherwise clean application.

Universal recognition at one year — requires establishing Mississippi residency.

Full license date + 1 year, upon residency.

No national re-examination — but the Mississippi Pass/Fail Jurisprudence Examination is required of every applicant: open-book (state rules + ACA code), 35 questions, 80% to pass, taken through CCE after the application is submitted and paid.

Not reviewed under universal recognition.

Miss. Code Ann. §73-50-2, the Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act, was added by Laws 2021, House Bill 1263, effective July 1, 2021, per the statute's own credits line in the official code text hosted by the licensing board and echoed on the board's LPC by Universal page.

• The statute contains its own poison pill: a license issued this way is valid only in Mississippi and expressly does not make you compact-eligible.
• The board collects a copy of your original licensure file — supervision verification forms, transcript, national exam scores — from the sending state (or from you directly if the state won't forward it). Collected for the record, not re-judged.

Universal recognition at one year — and Missouri is unusually kind to this exact cohort: the career-development course is excused by statute for out-of-state licensees (RSMo 337.510.2(1)), and a 48-semester/72-quarter degree is grandfathered for anyone who enrolled before Aug 28, 2023 — which is every MAP grad in these classes.

Full license date + 1 year.

NCE accepted; no national re-examination under reciprocity. But every Missouri licensee takes the state's written, open-book examination on Missouri law (RSMo 337.510.4) — plan on it.

Grandfathered at 72 quarter for this cohort; keep enrollment-date documentation handy.

RSMo 337.510's current version — including the §337.510.2(1) career-development exemption for prior and out-of-state licensees — took effect August 28, 2023 as enacted by 2023 House Bills 115 and 99, merged with Senate Bill 70 and Senate Bill 157; the 48-semester/72-quarter-hour grandfather for applicants enrolled before that date sits in the implementing rule 20 CSR 2095-2.010(1)(B), and the separate general universal-recognition statute RSMo 324.009 traces to 2018 Senate Bill 840.

• The grandfather keys to either date: a degree obtained before Aug 28, 2023 qualifies on its own (20 CSR 2095-2.010(1)(B) — 'obtained a master's degree or was enrolled'), so a June 2023 conferral on the transcript is sufficient documentation. Enrollment-date proof is a backup, not a requirement.

Nebraska's universal-recognition statute (Neb. Rev. Stat. §84-950, enacted 2024) orders any occupational board to issue a license at the same practice level to anyone who has held a similar-scope credential for one year, where the sending state required education, training, or exams — no Nebraska education review, no supervision reconstruction, and no residency requirement anywhere in the section. That last part matters: the supervision-ratio wall that closed Nebraska's independent (diagnosing) tier sits in the ordinary reciprocity rules this statute overrides. Nobody appears to have tested it: the health department still publishes only its old five-year reciprocity application, so the first mover will be invoking the statute in writing rather than filling in a form.

Full license date + 1 year on the statute's own terms — but expect to cite §84-950 to a department that has not built the application for it.

No new national exam; a jurisprudence exam only if Nebraska requires one of its own applicants.

Not reviewed under §84-950 — the statute asks whether Washington imposed standards and whether you met them, which Washington verifies.

§84-950 was added by LB 16 §11, Laws 2024 (effective 2024-07-19), extending Nebraska's Occupational Board Reform Act framework into a mandatory universal-recognition rule. The department's published forms have not caught up with it.

• The statute's opening clause excepts occupations 'as otherwise provided in … an occupational licensing compact,' and Nebraska is a Counseling Compact member — whether that clause switches the route off for counselors is unresolved and is the first question to put to the department in writing.
• The usual poison pill applies: a §84-950 license is valid only in Nebraska and expressly not compact-eligible.
• The 'same practice level' determination decides whether you get the independent LIMHP or the non-diagnosing LMHP — argue from the WA LMHC's independent diagnostic scope.
• Statute verified in full; department practice unverified — treat as untested until someone files.

Universal recognition (§58-1-302(2)): the division must license an out-of-state licensee with similar scope and one year of practice under the license — no education or exam conditions in the statute's text.

Full license date + 1 year.

The one warning: Utah's own CMHC rule wants both the NCMHCE and the NCE, and a rule preserves discretion to demand exams from endorsement applicants. Whether they exercise it is the state's one open question; a non-passing-score alternative pathway also exists.

None on the statute's face.

Utah Code §58-1-302(2)'s one-year out-of-state license recognition provision took its current form through Chapter 104 of the 2024 Utah General Session, effective May 1, 2024.

• Ask DOPL for written policy on the exam discretion before applying.
• No temporary license, no telehealth registration.

Licensure by credential (BPC §4999.60): for anyone licensed 2+ years, the degree requirement is just 'a master's from an accredited institution' — no unit count, no content review — and the clinical exam is expressly waived. The cleanest big-state door the cohort has.

Full license date + 2 years — and the license must be unrestricted the entire two years immediately preceding. Keep the WA record spotless.

California Law & Ethics exam only; NCE/NCMHCE irrelevant.

None reviewed beyond the accredited master's. About 40 hours of California-specific short courses (law/ethics, CA cultures, child abuse, suicide) complete the file.

BPC §4999.60's licensed-two-years out-of-state structure — the two-year unrestricted-license threshold, the master's-or-doctoral-degree-only education requirement, and the waived clinical examination — was created by SB 679, chapter 380, Statutes of 2019, effective January 1, 2020, per the Board of Behavioral Sciences' own implementation guide; leginfo's 'Amended by Stats.' history note could not be read directly because the section page is JavaScript-rendered and returns no text to any fetch.

• Applying before the 2-year mark is pointless — the under-2-years path reviews units and is structurally closed to a 72-quarter psychology degree.
• Any license restriction resets the clock.

MOBILE Act endorsement (§456.0145): reviews no education at all — no transcript, no CACREP, no course list. Needs an active unencumbered license, a national exam (the board expressly exempts NCE-holders from the NCMHCE), a clean record, and 2 of the last 4 years in active practice.

Conservatively, two years of practice after full licensure. Possibly much sooner: the statute counts 'active practice' rather than license age, AAMFT reported (May 2026) that board staff read the amended act to include intern and associate-level experience, and a cohort application filed August 2026 is testing exactly that. If it approves, Florida becomes an open state for anyone with two years of combined practice.

NCE or NCMHCE; either one works.

None reviewed. (The exam path closed permanently to non-CACREP degrees on 7/1/2025 — endorsement is the only Florida door, and it is wide open.)

Florida's MOBILE Act endorsement pathway at Fla. Stat. §456.0145 was created by ch. 2024-274, Laws of Florida (2024), and amended into its current two-years-of-active-practice-within-the-preceding-four-years form by ch. 2025-6 and ch. 2025-114, Laws of Florida (2025), with the 2025 changes effective July 1, 2025.

• Use form DH-MQA-5101; the older 3-of-5-years form still floating on their site is superseded.
• The board's published email address rejected messages in our testing (July 2026); call (850) 245-4292 instead.
• Florida also runs an out-of-state telehealth registration; see the remote-practice section.

Two-year deemed equivalency (22 TAC §681.82(c)): after 2 years holding a full US counselor license, you are deemed to meet all academic and experience requirements with 48 graduate semester hours (exactly what MAP grants), 3,000 supervised hours, and 300 documented practicum clock hours.

Full license date + 2 years.

NCE or NCMHCE via NBCC transfer; Texas jurisprudence exam within 6 months of applying.

72 quarter = 48 semester suffices under this rule — the 60-hour standard never applies to you.

22 TAC §681.82 was originally adopted effective September 1, 2003 (28 TexReg 4134), and its current text — including the subsection (c) two-year deemed-equivalency language relied on here — reflects the amendment effective November 21, 2021, published at Texas Register Volume 46, Number 46 (November 12, 2021), 46 TexReg 7786.

• The work is documentation: your supervised-hours log and program practicum clock hours (SU's internship assessment forms recorded total hours — request yours from the program while records are warm).
• Read this as an audit, not an automatic deeming: the board's own applicant page reasserts the full statutory eligibility requirements, there is no separate endorsement form, and the 48-semester-hour element leaves this degree zero margin — the practicum must appear on the transcript (the MAP internship does). Both the national exam element and the Texas jurisprudence exam stand on every path.

The counseling statute has an endorsement clause (§20-195dd(c)), but DPH publishes no endorsement form and does not operate the substantially-similar clause in any applicant-facing material. What it operates instead is a four-years-licensed route, and DPH's own page says it plainly: 'you will not be required to provide transcripts, verification of any training or be required to complete an examination.' Four years holding the license, and Connecticut stops asking questions. Under four years, the coursework door: 60 semester hours certified by the school on a pure checkbox form — no per-area minimums, no syllabi — across eleven named areas, plus a 100-hour practicum requirement separate from the 600-hour internship, both taught by faculty licensed or certified as professional counselors.

Full license date + 4 years on the no-questions route (this tier's label reads three-or-four; Connecticut is the four). Sooner only via the coursework door, whose checkbox form is friendlier than most but whose faculty-licensure and separate-practicum demands add real friction for this degree.

NCE accepted — the only New England state where the NCE alone suffices on the standard path.

Not reviewed at four years licensed. On the coursework door: 60 semester / 90 quarter hours certified by checkbox across eleven areas as the form prints them — human growth and development; career counseling; social and cultural foundations; appraisals or tests and measurements; counseling theories and techniques; research and evaluation; group counseling; professional orientation; and the rest of the form's list — with no per-area credit minimums and no syllabi requested anywhere.

The chapter's history notes give §20-195dd as enacted by P.A. 97-311, S. 4 and last amended by P.A. 21-121, S. 18, effective July 6, 2021.

• There is no LPC endorsement form — verified against DPH's full page index 2026-08-20. Do not plan around the statutory endorsement clause; plan around the four-year route, which is written down.
• The four-year route runs under the health-professions statute CGS §19a-14d, not the counseling chapter — and it carries its own fine print: DPH may still require an examination, may deny in the public's best interest, and requires a background check. The no-transcripts promise is DPH's own page; the statute keeps those levers.
• One year of inactivity and your file is destroyed — a new application and fee to restart. And nothing may pass through your hands: every document goes to DPH directly from its source.
• The coursework door's hidden frictions: a 100-hour practicum requirement separate from the internship, and both must have been taught by faculty licensed or certified as professional counselors — documentation MAP grads should not assume exists.
• DPH's own pages currently print three contradictory fee figures — confirm the fee inside the application, not from any webpage (including this one).
• §19a-14d(b), read in full, reserves discretion for the department to require 'all, or a portion of, any examination' of a four-year-route applicant — DPH's page promises no exams in practice, but the statute keeps the option; the NCE already passed would presumably satisfy it.

Two endorsement clocks, both counselor-specific and neither containing an equivalence test (D.C. Code §3-1207.10(c)): five years licensed gets you in on a license verification plus a written attestation of your experience — the board takes no transcript on this track — and three years gets the same if you hold the NCC. No residency requirement, no jurisprudence exam, and your existing national exam counts (DCMR 17-6605.2 accepts any exam a US counseling board administered). Since most of the cohort sits one career course from the NCC, three years is the operative number. Separately, DC's graduate-tier LGPC sits at exactly 48 semester hours — available now as a supervised foothold.

Full license date + 3 years with the NCC in hand; + 5 years without it.

Whatever you already passed — DCMR 17-6605.2 accepts an exam administered by any US jurisdiction's counseling board. No jurisprudence exam.

Not collected on the endorsement tracks per the board's published policy. Even DC's ordinary education rule is unusually friendly: psychology is an enumerated acceptable subject, and content areas are reviewed by content, not course title (DCMR 17-6602.2).

The endorsement subsection took its current shape in the Health Occupations Revision General Amendment Act of 2024 (D.C. Law 25-191, effective 2024-07-19); DC joined the Counseling Compact separately (D.C. Law 25-238, 2024-12-17), which neither amends nor conditions this route.

• The endorsement path runs on statute plus a board policy PDF — no implementing regulation exists in DCMR ch. 17-66 — so the policy could change without notice-and-comment; confirm it stands before filing.
• Career development remains DC's one clear content gap if you ever land in the ordinary education review.
• No telehealth registration — DC clients need a DC credential.

The explicit sub-60-credit lane: a master's under 60 credits + 3 years licensed + 3,000 hours of clinical experience, with coursework proof required in only three areas — ethics, diagnosis/psychopathology, and psychotherapy — all standard MAP territory.

Full license date + 3 years.

NCE accepted (aggregators claiming NCMHCE-only are wrong); plus a no-fail online Maryland law assessment.

Three-topic review only; note each topic wants 3 semester or 5 quarter credits, so a 3-quarter-credit course may need pairing — check your transcript's credit weights.

The regulations formerly codified at COMAR 10.58.12 as 'Supervision Requirements' were repealed and new Regulations .01–.10, 'Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors — Requirements for Licensure' — including .06's out-of-state sub-60-credit lane — were adopted effective June 28, 2021 (48:13 Md. R. 508), under authority of Health Occupations Article §§17-101, 17-205, 17-301, 17-304, 17-307 and 17-509; the session law that last shaped §17-304 itself was not located.

• Don't bother curing to 60 for Maryland; the sub-60 lane is no slower.
• Incomplete files close after 90 days.

Massachusetts amended its counselor regulations effective July 31, 2026, and the exam exclusivity survived the rewrite in definitional form: 'Board Examination' is defined as the NCMHCE (262 CMR 2.02), and reciprocal-recognition applicants must show a passing score on it (2.03(3)(c)) plus a license in good standing for the three years preceding the application. One quirk still favors the cohort: Massachusetts counts 80 quarter hours as equal to 60 semester, so a 72-quarter degree is only 8 quarter credits short — the mildest total-hours gap anywhere.

For NCMHCE-passers: genuinely reachable — full license plus three years in good standing, roughly 8 quarter credits, and an hours top-up. For NCE-only members: the exam is the wall, and it is a sit-the-test wall rather than a structural one.

NCMHCE only, by definition: the regulation defines 'Board Examination' as the NCMHCE, so no substitute exists. New in the 2026 amendment: initial-licensure applicants face a five-year score-validity limit (2.03(1)(d), (2)(d)) — but the reciprocity paragraph (2.03(3)) imposes no score expiry at all, which is more favorable for already-licensed applicants than the amended rules' reputation suggests.

The 80-quarter standard (mildest gap on the map) with a ten-area education review — elective-dependent.

262 CMR 2.00 was rewritten by the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professions and published in Massachusetts Register #1579 effective 7/31/2026 — confirmed by the regulation's own page footer, '7/31/26 262 CMR - 5 (Mass. Register #1579, 07/31/2026),' and by the Board's 7/31/2026 notice that it 'issued revised regulations to clarify and broaden licensing requirements for the licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) license, allow teletherapy for licensing experience hours permanently, and create a new licensed supervised mental health counselor (LSMHC) license.'

• The regulation was amended effective 7/31/2026 (Mass. Register #1579) — the widely-quoted 'no other exam will be accepted' sentence no longer exists, and the old exam section (2.04) is gone; anything citing it is out of date.
• Not a compact member — no privilege route ever.
• The experience rules' group-hours cap can bite a WA log.
• The 2026 rewrite also created a new associate-tier license (LSMHC) — irrelevant to full-license holders, useful context for anyone reading Massachusetts materials.
• The staff answer glossed the three years as “practicing full time” — a part-time practice history may draw scrutiny; keep practice-volume evidence.

Reciprocity, now on binding rule text: amended OAR 833-030-0011(6)(g) (effective 2/9/2026) lets 3+ years of active licensure substitute for the entire education package — including the 60-semester/90-quarter total and every content area. Psychology is expressly a qualifying degree field. Experience is separately presumed met at 3 years.

Full license date + 3 years. Board staff answered a cohort inquiry (August 2026; informal, non-binding) that the clock runs from full licensure - associate time does not count. At that mark, OAR 833-030-0011(6)(g) substitutes the licensure itself for the entire education package, including the 60-semester/90-quarter total and every content area.

NCE accepted (within 10 years); Oregon's law exam is open-book.

Nothing to cure at the 3-year mark. Entering earlier requires the full 90-quarter package plus 1,900 documented direct hours.

Permanent Administrative Order BLPCT 1-2026, filed and effective 2/9/2026 (agency approved 2/6/2026; proposal notices filed 10/28/2025 and 11/21/2025 after ten public Education Committee sessions from Sept 2024 to Sept 2025), amended OAR 833-030-0011 and carried the reciprocity substitution forward — the notice redline shows old (f) renumbered to (g) with its cross-reference deliberately expanded from 'Sections (a) through (d)' to 'Sections (a) through (e)', confirming deliberate implementation, not a drafting accident.

• Expect staff to collect the course-by-course form anyway; the substitution is what makes it moot.
• Don't confuse this education substitution with the separate experience-hours substitution.

Fast Track endorsement (3 V.S.A. §136a): licensure on not more than 3 years of good-standing practice regardless of whether the licensing state's requirements are similar — Vermont's standards-blind portability statute.

Full license date + 3 years at most (the statute says 'not more than' three years — a ceiling the board could set lower). Validation warning: OPR's own instructions preserve education and exam review in ways the statute's text does not suggest; treat the everything-waived reading as unconfirmed and ask OPR directly.

The standard path demands both the NCE and the NCMHCE — another reason Fast Track is the only sensible door.

Not reviewed under Fast Track (confirm scope with OPR — their instructions are ambiguous about whether it waives review or just paperwork).

Confirmed deliberate implementation: 3 V.S.A. §136a was added by Act 152 of 2020 (2019, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), §4), effective April 1, 2021, and amended by 2021, No. 69, §18, effective June 8, 2021 — per the statute's own source note, not a drafting accident.

• OPR instructions (January 2026) require the three years to be independent practice — the associate-time question is answered no here.
• Whether Fast Track waives the education review or only the paperwork is the state's deciding question; OPR's instructions lean toward review surviving.
• A 90-day provisional license can bridge verification delays — but only once all other requirements are met.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: Vermont's fast track (3 V.S.A. §136a) is itself the real thing — it licenses 'regardless of whether that jurisdiction has licensing requirements substantially similar to those of this State,' with no residency and no new exam. Its only gate is the three years.
• One more door in the statute itself: §136a(c) lets the OPR Director waive even the practice requirement where the waiver follows state policy and the public is protected — a discretionary softener worth knowing if the three-year clock is the only thing in the way.

The board publishes categorical determinations by state, and Washington is already adjudicated both ways: a WA LMHC licensed five or more years is approved for the clinical LPCC, and one licensed under five years is approved now for the LPC — Minnesota's non-clinical tier — so there is a Minnesota license available to the whole cohort today, with the clinical upgrade arriving on the five-year clock. The five-year track's statute (§148B.56 subd. 2) contains no education test at all; no residency is required; the licensure fee package runs about $432. Sub-60-credit degrees still owe the 12-credit post-licensure remediation within four years.

LPC available now; LPCC at full license date + 5 years. About 12 credits are due within 4 years after licensure either way.

Handled by the list — no NCMHCE retake demanded of listed credentials.

The 12-credit post-licensure remediation is unavoidable for this cohort.

The five-or-more-years reciprocity track at Minn. Stat. §148B.56 subd. 2 was created by Laws of Minnesota 2019, ch. 28, §1 (S.F. No. 955, expanding duty to warn and reciprocity for certain mental health professionals and social workers), signed May 17, 2019 — before that the section was a single undivided substantial-equivalency paragraph.

• The pre-approval list is internally dated March 2024; board staff confirmed it current in writing 2026-08-21 — re-verify only if filing much later.
• The statute's verb is 'may,' not 'shall,' and the board still collects full graduate transcripts with the application — expect paperwork even where no education test applies.
• The 12-credit post-licensure obligation (Minn. R. 2150.2520) is the carrying cost this cohort cannot avoid.

New York requires the NCMHCE on every path ('no other examination is acceptable'), opens endorsement only after five years of licensed practice, and can still route a Washington applicant into its full 60-hour, twelve-area education review. On top of that, diagnosing on your own requires a separate 'diagnostic privilege,' which carries its own 60-semester-hour education requirement.

Five years of qualifying experience within the ten years immediately preceding the application (a rolling window, not a simple license-birthday), at best, and the NCMHCE regardless — slow, but genuinely open: this is an exam-and-patience state, not a closed one.

NCMHCE only in practice — with a nuance validation surfaced: the statute itself says only 'an examination satisfactory to the board'; the no-other-exam exclusivity is NYSED's departmental position, stated on its license-requirements page. Departmental positions are policy, and policy can move — but plan on the NCMHCE.

60 semester hours across twelve areas on the full review; NYSED's individual evaluation can prescribe make-up coursework at its discretion.

The diagnostic privilege at Educ. Law §8401-a (and the §8401(3)-(4) definitions of 'diagnosis' and 'assessment-based treatment plans' it turns on) was added by Chapter 230 of the Laws of 2022, which NYSED's Office of Counsel confirms took effect in stages — some provisions June 24, 2022, with the Department barred from issuing any privilege until June 24, 2024 — implemented by 8 NYCRR §79-9.6; no enacting amendment for the §79-9.7 endorsement rule itself was located.

• Only pursue if New York is the actual destination.

Two doors, and the packets could not be more different. Licensure by Credentials asks for no transcript, no coursework form, and no supervision verification — five items: the application, the fee, license verifications sent board-to-board from every jurisdiction you have ever held a counseling-family license in, criminal-justice reports (Alaska's plus your home state's), and a copy of Washington's own counseling statutes and rules. Its single gate is the equivalence question: it is for holders of a current equivalent license from a jurisdiction with substantially the same or higher licensing requirements. The by-examination door is the coursework project described under education below — and it carries a trap the credentials door lacks: an applicant not issued an initial license within three years of passing the exam must retake it. File by credentials if you can; the ~12-credit cure is the fallback, not the plan.

By credentials: whenever the board deems Washington's requirements substantially the same or higher — an equivalence determination not yet tested from this cohort. By examination: the day the ~12 added semester credits are done. The August 21, 2026 rules accepting out-of-state supervision help the examination route; the credentials route never asks about supervision at all.

NCE or NCMHCE, your choice.

On the credentials route: not reviewed — no transcript is filed. On the examination route: the 60-semester total with career development not required (8 of 10 areas suffice), roughly 12 added credits for this cohort, with the areas as the check sheet names them carried in the coursework forms.

The compilation is the Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing's 'Statutes and Regulations — Professional Counselors,' Rev. 07/01/2025; it notes AS 08.29.210 (supervisor certification) was repealed by secs. 24 and 26, ch. 44, SLA 2024, and ties the 'related field' definition in 12 AAC 62.990(b) to sec. 6, ch. 75, SLA 1998 as amended by sec. 7, ch. 49, SLA 1999.

• File by credentials, not by examination, if at all possible: the examination packet's exam-recency clause (initial license within three years of passing, or retake) is a trap for anyone who tested years ago, and the credentials packet reviews no education and no supervision.
• The new supervision form has not posted: as of August 20, 2026 the board's forms page still says updated applications are coming, and the live supervision form still requires board pre-approval before supervision begins — the old wall stands on paper until the new forms land. Recheck after August 21.
• Two twelve-month clocks: an application is abandoned when twelve months pass since the board last received correspondence, and the $200 application fee (of the $450 total) is non-refundable. Every applicant needs an Alaska name-based background check even if never a resident.
• Board housekeeping, resolved but worth knowing: the board operates in its statutory wind-down year while seeking an extension next session.
• Fees as printed on the 2025 revisions: $200 application + $250 initial license; two-year cycle expiring October 31 of odd years. Verify at filing.

The coursework review is real and filed on every path — the Required Course Summary's first line makes you tick which: Traditional, Provisional, Act 457, Military, or LBE — so classes are always part of Arkansas. But two corrections shrink the project and one changes the state's meaning entirely. First, the conversion: Arkansas prints its own ratio — 3 semester = 4 quarter credits — so 72 quarter hours is 54 semester hours here, a six-hour gap, not twelve. Second, the old three-year threshold did not vanish; it moved: three years of unbroken Washington licensure lets the board approve your supervision hours on the license alone, skipping the hour-by-hour audit. Third, and the headline: Arkansas went live in the Counseling Compact on July 30, 2026 — the moment Washington goes live, Arkansas arrives by privilege ($50 + $30) without any of this.

Whenever the coursework gap is closed — about six semester hours — plus, at three years of unbroken licensure, the supervision audit dissolves. Or wait for the compact: Arkansas is live, and a privilege beats all of it for remote practice.

NCE or NCMHCE, verified in the board's own rule.

Sixty semester hours at a B- or better, twelve areas as the Required Course Summary prints them: professional identity and ethics (3); social and cultural diversity (3); human growth and development (3); career development (3); helping relations (3); group work (3); assessment (3); research and program evaluation (3); abnormal psychology/psychopathology (3); marriage, family and relationship systems (3); a supervised practicum/internship block of nine graduate credits across at least three courses over six-plus months — credit-denominated, the same species of bar Rhode Island's closure turns on, so check your transcript's field-experience credits, not just clock hours; and use of technology in counseling — one credit, not three. At Arkansas's own 4-quarter-to-3-semester conversion, this cohort's gap is about six semester hours plus any missing named areas. Non-CACREP applicants also file two graduate catalogs and a syllabus for every listed course.

The Automatic Occupational Licensure Act was Act 457 of 2023 (effective 2023-08-01, by constitutional default). The board implements it by posting the act itself and a rule (17 CAR §75-905) that grants the license and then requires all remaining requirements within one year on pain of revocation. The endorsement rule's three-year threshold was removed in the June–July 2026 revision.

• Arkansas became the compact's seventh live state on July 30, 2026 (the board's own go-live FAQ) — for remote practice, the privilege will make this whole entry moot once Washington joins.
• Corrected 2026-08-20: the direct-hours figure is 2,000, not 2,200, and three years of unbroken Washington licensure substitutes for the hours audit entirely.
• Syllabus archaeology applies here too: non-CACREP applicants submit two graduate catalogs plus a syllabus per listed course. Collect them now.
• Twelve-month application clock with one paid extension; the universal-recognition (Act 457) route still requires Arkansas residency and defers rather than waives all of this.
• A jurisprudence exam is required of endorsement applicants (runs through CCE Academy).

Delaware's reciprocity runs on national certification plus a similarity review, and the board's own description says NBCC certification is a requirement of licensure for all applicants (24 Del. C. §3034). The pieces fit together like this: hold the NCC (for most of this cohort, one career course away — see the NCC section), and reciprocity is available from a substantially-similar state; at five-plus years licensed in any one jurisdiction, the board's page adds that 'no further documentation is needed' — the similarity paperwork thins out, but the certification requirement stands. The examination route's CACREP-standards course mapping remains the door to avoid.

After obtaining the NCC — the career course is the cure here — plus the similarity review of Washington's rules (which five-plus years licensed reduces to nearly nothing). A no on similarity routes to the associate license, not a denial.

NCE accepted by statute.

Not reviewed on the NCC-based reciprocity route; the CACREP-standards mapping exists only on the examination route.

The section credits show §3032 last amended by 83 Del. Laws, c. 433, §20 and §3034 last amended by 81 Del. Laws, c. 425, §18.

• Two research passes read this state oppositely within one day — one found the NCC nowhere, a re-check found the board's page requiring NBCC certification of all applicants. The board's page and the statute win; if you want certainty beyond that, the question for the board is one line: does the reciprocity route require current NCC certification?
• The DELPROS portal clock starts when you OPEN the application: six months to submit or it deletes. Gather documents first, open last.
• Delaware's background check cannot be recycled from another state's licensure.
• The telehealth registration's compact-state bar still stands (see the remote-practice section).
• Statutory anatomy of the five-year clause, for precision: §3034(a) is the certification-plus-similar-state door and reads 'shall grant'; §3034(b) is the five-year door for jurisdictions whose standards are NOT substantially similar, and reads 'may be licensed.' The board's page glosses five years as 'no further documentation' — the statute makes that door discretionary.

Course-by-course review against the 60-hour standard; a live statute-versus-rule conflict (the rule still contains a deleted 'applied psychology' pathway) makes outcomes less predictable than the paper suggests.

The day the coursework is done — about eight quarter hours here — with no waiting period; but check the sixty-month lookback below before assuming your hours survive.

NCE accepted.

The total is 'a minimum of 60 semester or 80 quarter hours' — Georgia converts at 80, not 90, so a 72-quarter transcript is eight quarter hours short, roughly half the cure elsewhere. The degree must be in clinical counseling or counseling psychology from a regionally accredited program — an M.A. in Psychology is neither name, a discretionary risk independent of credits. The eleven areas as the application prints them include counseling/psychotherapy theory and practicum, with career development required and addictions and sexuality not. No syllabi or catalog descriptions are demanded anywhere — course numbers and titles are read against the rule directly. The rule's own definition settles the supplementation question in this cohort's favor: the required courses may be completed 'either as part of the degree program or as additional course work completed prior to, during or after the degree program' (135-5-.02(a)11) — express post-degree supplementation. Note the rule itself prints no credit total at all: the 60-semester/80-quarter figure lives on the application and the 60/90 in the statute, making the rule a third instrument in the credit-total conflict.

O.C.G.A. §43-10A-11 was last amended by 2024 Ga. Laws 557, §2, effective July 1, 2024, following the 2022 Ga. Laws 813, §1 rewrite effective July 1, 2022.

• The credit total is itself in conflict between Georgia's own instruments: the current application prints '60 semester or 80 quarter hours' while the statute (O.C.G.A. §43-10A-11) prints 90 quarter. Eight hours short on the form's math, eighteen on the statute's — get the number in writing before enrolling, and use the higher number.
• The sixty-month lookback is Georgia's real trap: experience and supervision 'should not be reported for more than a 5 year/60-month period immediately preceding the submission of the application' — cohort members whose supervised hours ended more than five years before filing lose them.
• Georgia's own instructions conflict on filing channel too: the how-to guide says portal-only (paper returned to sender) while the 08-15-2023 application revision instructs mailing with a mail-processing fee. Confirm the channel with the board before submitting anything.
• If any supervisor was an LPC, the current application demands their ACS or CPCS credential number — reconstruct that before filing.
• Do not register for the background check before submitting the application; those fees don't come back.
• Georgia is live on the compact, so after the 90-quarter cure and Washington's go-live it arrives by privilege without any of this.

No reciprocity exists and license age never helps — but the totals are friendly: 48 semester hours is exactly Hawaii's number, and the statute expressly allows post-degree supplementation with no cap. It's a pure content-area project.

The day the short areas are cured — no waiting period, no NCMHCE, no exam retake (NBCC sends your NCE verification). But everything must be complete before filing: education, practicum, and all 3,000 post-graduate hours — Hawaii accepts no in-progress applications, and an application not completed within a year is destroyed as abandoned.

NCE, by score verification; no retake.

The full checklist, from the application instructions (read in full 2026-08-20): 48 semester / 72 quarter graduate hours — exactly what MAP grants — including all nine subject areas at a minimum of 3 semester / 5 quarter hours each: (a) human growth and development; (b) social and cultural foundations; (c) counseling theories and applications; (d) group theory and practice; (e) career and lifestyle development; (f) appraisal of human behavior; (g) tests and measurements; (h) research and program evaluation; (i) professional orientation and ethics. Note that appraisal and tests-and-measurements are separate areas — the less obvious gap, since most transcripts that cover one lean on it for both. Multiple courses may combine within an area (each course counted once, per the program office), and post-degree graduate coursework fills any short area. For most MAP transcripts the gaps are career and lifestyle development and tests and measurements.

The section's source note reads L 2004, c 209, pt of §2, as amended by L 2006, c 14, §3; L 2007, c 252, §2; L 2008, c 206, §1; L 2018, c 185, §2; and L 2020, c 63, §2.

• The paperwork is the main work: the Coursework Form needs a catalog description AND syllabus for every course listed — start collecting 2022–2024 syllabi now, while the program can still produce them. Practicum (2+ terms, 6 semester / 10 quarter hours, 300+ supervised contact hours) and post-graduate experience both need notarized supervisor verification forms.
• A window trap in the experience rule: the 3,000 post-graduate hours with 100 hours of face-to-face supervision must be completed in no less than two and no more than four years. Cohort members who accrued hours slowly (part-time practice) can fail the four-year cap — check your own dates before anything else.
• Supervisors must have been licensed (MHC, psychologist, clinical social worker, psychiatric APRN, psychiatrist, or MFT) for the entire supervised period — a WA LMHC supervisor qualifies on its face.
• The program office's answers carry Hawaii's own disclaimer (HAR §16-201-90: informational, not binding on the Board). Keep the email with any application.
• No reciprocity exists — the application instructions say so flatly — and license age never helps; nothing about waiting changes this entry. Fees: $60 application; license fees vary by triennium year ($256–$444 as printed in the mid-2024 revision — verify at filing); renewal is triennial every June 30.

Illinois raised its degree minimum from 48 to 60 semester hours on July 1, 2026 — weeks ago — and whether the trigger is application date or graduation date is genuinely ambiguous in the rule. A graduation-date reading would nearly erase the education gate for this cohort; nobody has the answer yet.

After the cure — now definitively against the 60-hour standard — and only if the university will certify the practicum box. The strategic sequence: Illinois's LPC tier requires no post-degree experience and only the NCE, and an active Illinois LPC then substitutes for the entire clinical tier's education file — cure once, at the LPC gate.

LPC: NCE. LCPC (the independent tier): both the NCE and the NCMHCE — one of the only states requiring both.

Settled, unfavorably, by the rule's own text: 'Beginning July 1, 2026, individuals applying for licensure shall graduate from a program with a minimum of 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours' — application date, no grandfather, so this cohort is 12 semester hours short today regardless of graduation year. Thirteen named areas at 3 semester hours each on the certification-of-education form, which the UNIVERSITY completes under seal — including a yes/no box certifying a 700-hour practicum with 280 direct hours, which a 600-hour internship fails. An undisclosed 30-semester-hour single-institution residence rule lives in the rule text and appears in no applicant document. Two favorable clauses the rule itself carries: post-degree coursework may make up deficiencies expressly, and only seven of the thirteen core areas must sit inside the degree.

The posted 225 ILCS 107 text carries P.A. 103-715, effective January 1, 2025, among its amendatory notes.

• The application-date question is settled by the rule text itself (July 1, 2026, 'individuals applying') — but both IDFPR qualification sheets still describe it in the future tense; expect confusion at intake and carry the rule cite.
• The 700/280 practicum is a sealed university yes/no certification, not an hours negotiation — ask SU whether it would check that box before spending anything on Illinois.
• The NCC substitutes for the education certification on the LPC tier expressly (§1375.30); whether it does the same at the clinical tier is unconfirmed — ask before relying. Either way, for this state the career-course-then-NCC route has real value.
• Applications stay active three years; fees are non-refundable, printed twice.

Michigan grandfathers the 48-hour tier by program-entry date (on or before June 30, 2023) — which covers everyone in these classes. The remaining gap is typically one course wide (career development, if your electives lack it), and Michigan's endorsement rule reviews NO supervised experience at all. Separately — and now confirmed from the licensing agency's own guide (revision dated 2026-01-26) — Michigan's endorsement route stops reading transcripts entirely at five years: an applicant licensed five or more years in another state files only a Professional Disclosure Statement, with the education-and-examination presumption of R 338.1775(2) doing the rest. Under five years, the transcript and equivalency machinery reattaches. So Michigan is a cheap cure now or a paperwork state at license + 5, whichever arrives first for you.

After the career course (if needed) plus the credential evaluation — still one of the cheapest cures on the map — or, at full license + 5, a one-document filing with education and exam both presumed.

NCE accepted.

Two tiers that appear nowhere in the applicant packet — the licensing guide names no credit figure at all; the numbers live in rule: the 48-semester/72-quarter tier for program entry on or before June 30, 2023 (this whole cohort — 72 quarter meets it exactly, zero margin) and the 60/90 tier for later entrants. The only named-area list an applicant actually fills out is the evaluator's Michigan form (CCE or any NACES member — CCE is not mandated), and the areas it prints are diagnosis- and treatment-shaped. At five-plus years of full licensure, the education question disappears entirely: the rule presumes license verification, education, AND examination satisfied, and the endorsement document set is a single Professional Disclosure Statement.

R 338.1765 and R 338.1775 both carry the history '2021 AACS; 2023 AACS' — the 48-hour/60-hour split by program-entry date comes from the 2023 AACS rule set, and the January 15, 2026 final rules (2026 MR 2) amended R 338.1761, 1763, 1771, 1772 and 1781 but left R 338.1765 and R 338.1775 untouched.

• The grandfather turns on program ENTRY, not graduation — preserve admission-date evidence; the evaluator, not the guide, is where it matters.
• The tiers are invisible in the applicant packet (the guide prints no numbers) — carry the rule citation, because intake staff reading their own guide can't see your grandfather.
• The evaluator is a free choice: CCE or any current NACES member; CCE's Michigan form is itself stale (it prints only the 48/72 tier).
• The five-year endorsement presumption waives more than transcripts — examination too; the document set is one disclosure statement.
• The agency guide still cites CACREP 2009/2016 while the January 2026 rules adopted the 2024 standards — the vintage question remains with LARA (query in flight).

Pennsylvania's education structure is route (b) of its own statute, and it is built for exactly this degree: 'a planned program of 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours of graduate coursework in counseling or a field determined by the board... to be closely related — including a 48-semester-hour or 72-quarter-hour master's degree.' A 72-quarter master's is the case the route contemplates, and the route by construction requires more than the master's — post-degree supplementation is its structure, not an inference. Psychology is expressly a closely related field; the NCE is on Pennsylvania's accepted list (the NCMHCE is not). The genuinely open question is narrower and is with the board in writing: whether the additional 18 quarter hours must belong to a 'planned program.' The experience side needs a real audit: 1,500 of the 3,000 supervised hours must be direct service, all post-master's, over two to six years.

After ~12 added semester credits (career among them, if your electives lack it) — with the planned-program question answered in writing first — and an experience log that clears the 1,500-direct-hour floor.

NCE.

Sixty semester / 90 quarter total including a 48-semester/72-quarter master's (met exactly); content areas per §49.2 as the board's FAQ restates them; no CACREP requirement, no syllabi, no credential evaluation anywhere in the applicant materials. The open written question: whether post-degree credits must sit inside a 'planned program' or may simply accumulate.

The §49.13 rule text carries the note that the section was amended October 10, 2014, effective 10/11/2014, at 44 Pa.B. 6557, under section 6(2) of the Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors Act (63 P.S. §1906(2)).

• Experience counts in either of two patterns — a single setting at 30 to 40 hours per week for at least three months, OR at least 15 hours per week for at least six months. The second clause is what makes part-time practice viable here; audit your log against it, plus the 1,500-direct floor and the two-to-six-year span.
• Supervision is a ratio with an individual floor: 2 hours per 40 of experience, at least half individual; supervisors must have been licensed where the supervision occurred.
• Citation note: the content areas live in §49.2 (the FAQ restates them). Pennsylvania does not list the NCMHCE — NCMHCE-only licensees have an exam problem here, the mirror of Indiana.
• Act 41's practical gifts stand: a provisional license to practice while completing requirements, and a 2-of-5-years recency test.

Validation improved Wisconsin's picture: the reciprocity rule itself (MPSW 11.04) conditions licensure only on a substantially equivalent out-of-state credential, a clean discipline history, and Wisconsin's statutes-and-rules exam — it says nothing about transcripts or curriculum forms. The conflict lives in the agency's downloadable forms, which do request them. And the education rule (MPSW 14.01(3)) permits up to 18 credit hours completed outside the degree program, not necessarily post-degree.

Possibly at reciprocity on the packet's own three items (plus the jurisprudence exam) — the statute-says-may versus rule-says-shall split and the DSPS ticket now pending decide how bankable that is. The §440.094 temporary credential bridges practice while any application pends.

NCE accepted.

Two doors with different document sets, side by side at last. Reciprocity (the door to take): a three-item packet — application, license verification sent by Washington, and a $75 open-book Wisconsin statutes-and-rules exam at 85% — with no transcript, no education worksheet, no course descriptions, no supervision affidavit; the test compares Washington's rules to Wisconsin's, never your transcript. The standard door: the 60-hour equivalency worksheet across the rule's named areas — and the worksheet itself is defective, duplicating one mandatory area across two sections while omitting another entirely.

• The reciprocity packet reviews states, not transcripts — three items, none academic. Whether the Section grants it (statute 'may') or must ('shall', per its own rule) is the open question riding the DSPS ticket.
• The $75 jurisprudence exam is mandatory on reciprocity: open-book, 85% to pass, three-month window, retakes cost extra.
• Keep the Washington license active — the board's own instructions require the out-of-state license to remain active until Wisconsin credentialing completes.
• Application abandonment runs about 90 days after a deficiency request (not the one-year norm) — flagged from DSPS guidance rather than a counselor-specific document; confirm.
• The education worksheet (if you end up on the standard door) is internally defective — it omits a mandatory content area; expect confusion and carry the rule.

A clean cure case: every hours requirement clears a WA record, the NCE is accepted, and no odd traps surfaced — just the 60-hour total plus career if your electives lack it.

The day the coverage gaps are filled — for most MAP transcripts that is the career course and little else — no waiting period, no extra exam. The rule's 60/90 total still stands behind the form; treat the coverage test as the instrument and the total as the law.

NCE accepted.

The operative applicant instrument tests coverage, not credits — 'At least one (1) course must be identified in each area,' no per-area minimums, no double-counting — across nine areas: practicum/internship, human growth and development, social and cultural diversity, helping relationships, group work, career development, assessment, research and program evaluation, and professional counseling orientation and ethics. The 60/90 total lives in the rule rather than on the form. No syllabi, no course descriptions, no notary — and on the reciprocity route, no supervisor-signed hours form at all (experience is self-reported).

Both chapter 11 rules carry the history 'Amended, Eff. 6/3/2015; Amended, Eff. 2/2/2016; Amended, Eff. 7/26/2019; Amended, Eff. 12/17/2021,' matching the Board's statement that its current rules were filed with the Secretary of State effective December 17, 2021.

• The board serves two fee figures simultaneously: the reciprocity packet read 2026-08-20 prints $419 ($375 + $39 + $5), while the application document linked from the same forms page (read 2026-08-21) prints $393 ($350 + $39 + $4). Confirm the figure with the board (WyoMHPLB@wyo.gov) before writing the check — both documents are live.
• The board will not pre-review transcripts — you learn whether the coverage reading works only after the full file is in; budget for that uncertainty.
• Fingerprint cards must be within six months of submission — get printed last.
• No late renewal exists: miss the postmark and the license is void; lapse five years and you retake the exam.

Maine's rules spell out an explicit supplementation cure (master's of 36–59 semester hours + added graduate coursework to 60), and a 1,000-hour alternative can rescue thin practicum documentation. The catch is the exam.

Classes alone don't finish Maine: the worksheet plus the NCMHCE, with the exam passed BEFORE applying (Maine sequences it first) — or skip everything at license + 5 via the transcript-review bypass. And the internship arithmetic is a surcharge, not a rescue: a 900-hour internship buys the 3,000-hour experience tier; 600 hours buys the 4,000-hour tier.

both the NCE and the NCMHCE for the LCPC; the NCE is waivable for out-of-state applicants, the NCMHCE is not. NCMHCE-passers: Maine moves several tiers friendlier for you.

The worksheet, precisely (REVISED 03/2025, read in full): ten core areas at 3+ graduate credits each — human growth and development; helping relationships (must cover counseling theories and skills); groups; measurement; research and evaluation; diagnosis and treatment; professional orientation; social and cultural foundations; practicum; and internship — plus a separate additional-areas section of at least 9 credits across at least two areas from a menu including lifestyle and career development (capped at 3), marriage and family, human sexuality, and supervision. Syllabi are required for every listed course, and the school itself must sign an Internship and Degree Verification Form certifying the internship was clinical. One conflict flagged rather than resolved: the rule permits supplementation to 60, while the applicant-facing degree language reads degree-bound — the cure's survival is a written question for the board.

The §13857 section history shows the licensure-by-endorsement paragraph (subsection 2, ¶E, keyed to 10 MRSA §8003-H) was added by PL 2021, c. 642, §41.

• The internship arithmetic is a surcharge, not a rescue: a 900-hour internship buys the 3,000-hour experience tier, and a 600-hour internship buys the 4,000-hour tier.
• Career development caps at 3 credits in the additional-areas menu — a second career course buys nothing; spread the 9 menu credits across two-plus areas.
• The school must sign the internship verification and syllabi are required per course — the same records-archaeology as Hawaii, plus a university signature.
• The rule text itself, read in full, supports the cure twice over: §2(3) accepts a 36-to-59-hour master's plus supplemental graduate coursework 'to equal or exceed 60 semester hours overall,' and its tail lets a 60-hour degree with area deficiencies cure by 'such supplemental graduate level coursework as the board deems necessary.' Two constraints ride along: supplemental courses must come from a mental health counseling program at a regionally accredited institution, and the applicant-facing worksheet still carries degree-bound language — the written question to ask before enrolling is whether the worksheet follows the rule.
• Family/intimate-partner-violence coursework can wait until first renewal; a conditional license can bridge while the exam pends.

No universal-recognition law despite frequent claims, a rulebook whose cited endorsement rule doesn't exist, and an unpublished substantial-equivalency list — Montana's whole verdict hinges on one answer. The education rule, read in full, is degree-bound on its face: ARM 24.219.601 wants a degree 'that is at least 60 semester credits' (90 quarter), allows at most 12 semester (18 quarter) credits transferred into it, and still cites a repealed statute. That makes MCA 37-1-304(2) the cure's only statutory hook: when qualifications are not substantially equivalent, the board 'shall determine whether the deficiency can be addressed by the applicant's actual qualifications and work experience.'

Still unknown until the board answers — but the pending query should now be framed around the form: may the Academic Summary Sheet list post-degree courses from a second institution in its per-row university column? A yes cures Montana; a no closes it.

Hours are friendly (Montana's direct-hours bar is one you already clear).

Twelve content areas, at last named, on the mandatory Academic Summary Sheet (which 'will not be accepted in lieu of' — transcripts cannot replace it): counseling theory; counseling techniques; supervised experience; human growth and development; social and cultural foundations; the helping relationship; groups; life-style and career development; appraisal; research and evaluation; professional orientation; and advanced counseling practicum. No per-area minimums; a single total-credits line marked semester or quarter. CACREP graduates skip the table entirely. The degree-attachment question is narrowed but not settled: the form's stated purpose is to show 'your graduate program contains CACREP core courses,' yet it carries a per-row college/university column and an overflow line — structure that quietly accommodates courses from more than one institution.

ARM 24.219.601's history line ends 'AMD, 2024 MAR p. 279, Eff. 2/10/2024,' with authority and implementation tied to 37-1-131, MCA and HB 137 (2023).

• Reframe the in-flight query around the Academic Summary Sheet's own structure (the per-row university column), not the rule text — forms get straighter answers than statutes.
• Get fingerprinted late: six months from the board's receipt of results to a complete application, or you print again.
• Montana accepts whatever license-verification form Washington produces — no Montana-specific form to chase; but its own supervised-experience form assumes the supervisor will sign, so out-of-state hours need a willing signature or an alternative.
• $200 to apply; renewal annual on December 31; the application body was last updated in 2021 — confirm the fee before paying.

Sixty semester hours plus the NCMHCE, and Tennessee's reciprocity instruments are thin: two signed bilateral agreements (North Carolina and Kentucky — Washington is not one) plus a general 2019 board policy on out-of-state applicants. No universal licensure-recognition statute exists for counselors; the closest statute (63-22-103, as amended effective 7/1/2024) grants exam-free licensure only to marriage and family therapists.

Two roads. The coursework road: the 60-hour cure plus the NCMHCE, with everything complete before filing (deficiency letters give 60 days before the file closes). The reciprocity road: the board's December 2019 policy is general, not bilateral — three of the last five years licensed at your state's highest independent level, plus the Tennessee jurisprudence exam, and the packet's reciprocity checklist asks for no transcript and no national exam score. But read the policy to its end: its final item requires the applicant to 'meet all other minimum statutory requirements' — so the 60 hours and the exams survive reciprocity; the route eases documentation, not requirements. The board email asks whether that reading is right; until it answers, plan on the coursework road.

NCMHCE required — the one Southern state that forces it.

Career development appears nowhere in Tennessee's coursework instrument. The eleven categories on the Course Work Summary, none with per-area minimums, inside a 60-semester-hour total: theories of human behavior, learning and personality; abnormal behavior and psychopathology; theories of counseling and psychotherapy; evaluation and appraisal procedures; group dynamics; counseling techniques; multicultural counseling; ethics; research; use of the DSM; and treatment and treatment planning. The list is psychopathology-shaped — a clinical MAP transcript covers more of it than the career-centric states. One favorable detail from the rule itself: the MHSP designation's 9-hour diagnosis cluster may be completed 'either during the course of a graduate degree or as postgraduate work' (0450-01-.04(4)(c)3) — express postgraduate supplementation, at least for that cluster.

Tenn. Code Ann. §63-22-103 was amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts ch. 700, §1, effective July 1, 2024 (original Acts 1984, ch. 933, §4); rule 0450-01-.04 was last amended by a filing of January 7, 2014, effective April 7, 2014.

• Experience is the first Tennessee obstacle, before coursework: 1,500 of the 3,000 post-master's hours must be face-to-face client contact — audit your log against that before anything else.
• CONFIRMED in the board's written answer 2026-08-21: reciprocity keeps the 60-hour education floor ('less than 60 hours earned you do not qualify') — the cure precedes any Tennessee filing. The answer's timing formulation is the highest-level license for the last two of three years.
• Files close 60 days after a deficiency letter; educational requirements must be complete before the application date.

Licenses issued after the 2024 standard-change are measured against a 60-semester counseling degree and 2,250 direct hours — nearly double WA's minimum — and the board counts nothing you've done since licensure. Aging never helps.

Only a discretionary associate-level provisional license exists.

NCE is exactly what Alabama wants — the exam is the one friendly fact.

60-hour era applies to this cohort's license dates; the direct-hours wall is the true killer.

• An internal inconsistency between the rule (application date) and the board's chart (issuance date) is worth raising in writing if Alabama ever matters.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: no such statute; Alabama's endorsement provision is discretionary and its rule affirmatively re-imposes the state's education and hours requirements.

Kentucky's regulation names psychology-titled degrees as unacceptable, by name, (201 KAR 36:070 §1(3)) and bars remediation — the one state where the MAP degree title itself is fatal, independent of hours or coursework.

None by licensure; compact privilege after the cohort cure + go-lives — and remember a privilege supports remote practice from Washington only; it is never a path to moving there.

Irrelevant given the title bar.

Unfixable by coursework — the exclusion is categorical.

• An untested paper reading closes this state; if Kentucky ever matters to you, a board inquiry costs nothing. What the current text says (verified verbatim 2026-08-19): Section 1(3) lists psychology among degrees that 'shall not be accepted,' Section 7(2) bars remedial work for those degrees, and Section 2(2) separately requires a CACREP-accredited degree for everyone whose grandfather window closed in 2020.
• Don't spend money on Kentucky-specific coursework — the exclusions are categorical on paper.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: Kentucky has no such statute — the 2026 bill named for one (HB 458) died in committee, as did its 2023 predecessor.

The 60 hours must sit inside a degree program whose catalog says it trains counselors — post-degree aggregation likely doesn't count — plus 4,500 experience hours and a nine-area audit. Structural, not curable.

Compact privilege after the cohort cure + go-lives is the only realistic door — and remember a privilege supports remote practice from Washington only; it is never a path to moving there.

NCE accepted — not the problem.

Program-bound 60: confirm with the committee before spending anything, but expect no.

• An NJ license is required even for telehealth into NJ — no registration workaround.
• Corrected 2026-08-19: New Jersey's bar is a 60-semester-hour floor plus a degree-in-counseling title bind written into statute (N.J.S.A. 45:8B-40(c)) — not program accreditation; the board's rule even has an express non-CACREP alternative. The general endorsement statute (45:1-7.5) covers this board but is equivalence-conditioned, so it cannot reach past the statutory floor.

New Mexico's friendly reputation is obsolete for this cohort: Washington is named on the disapproved-jurisdiction list for expedited licensure — for both the LPCC and LMHC — 'on the grounds that the education, training, or examination requirements for licensure are not consistent with New Mexico's minimum requirements' (16.27.24.8 NMAC, effective 1/18/2023, verified verbatim 2026-08-19). The LPCC also requires both the NCE and NCMHCE plus 3,000 direct hours.

None realistic for this cohort.

Both exams required.

Moot given the disapproved listing.

• The non-expedited question is resolved (board answer 2026-08-21): an Examination pathway exists for disapproved jurisdictions, with the full standard requirements — the list closes the shortcut; the requirements close the door for this cohort.
• An earlier version asserted the old five-year reciprocity 'was repealed'; that could not be sourced and was removed 2026-08-19.
• Hardened 2026-08-19: the board's disapproved-jurisdiction rule (16.27.24.8 NMAC) now names Washington by name, for both the LMHC and LPCC levels, as 'not consistent with New Mexico's minimum requirements.'

The CACREP requirement attaches to the degree program itself and keys to application date — post-degree coursework can't confer program accreditation, so the cure buys nothing here.

No realistic route for a MAP degree; compact privilege after the cohort cure + go-lives is the only door — and remember a privilege supports remote practice from Washington only; it is never a path to moving there.

NCE fully sufficient — the exam was never the problem.

CACREP-or-equivalent program accreditation: structurally unavailable to this degree.

• Psychopharmacology is also named — moot given the accreditation bar.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: North Carolina's new recognition statute (N.C.G.S. §93B-15.3, S.L. 2025-61, effective 2025-10-01) excludes all Chapter 90 health-care practitioners — which is where LCMHCs live — and is limited to licensees from five neighboring states besides.

Board answer (2026-08-21) reframed the mechanism: 97-02-01-04 reciprocity reaches only the base LPC — “The reciprocity law you referenced does not apply to the LPCC License.” The LPCC is a specialty layered onto a held LPC (“technically the LPC becomes the LPCLPCC”): 60 graduate semester credits including abnormal psychology/psychopathology and clinical counseling skills, 700 practicum hours, two years (3,000 hours) of post-master’s supervised clinical experience with 100 hours supervised by an LPCC, three clinical references, and a passing NCMHCE. Nor is LPC reciprocity a shortcut: “each application is reviewed for academic requirements, test results and individual supervision” against the board’s Academic Requirements — where the education rule’s degree-title test (programs “identified specifically as counseling programs” in the graduate bulletin) closes the door for a psychology-titled degree.

No formula unlocks it: the degree-title academic review runs on every route — “reciprocity or standard application” — and the LPCC layer adds a 60-semester-credit floor plus the NCMHCE on top of a held LPC.

Two layers: the NCE covers the base-LPC exam element, but the LPCC specialty requires a passing NCMHCE — no NCE-only path to the clinical title.

Degree-title test: uncurable for a psychology-titled degree.

• The ‘substantially the same requirements’ review is discretionary, not codified — and the 2026-08-21 board answer shows even that review sits behind the per-application academic screen, so the closure is board-described, not merely inferred.
• Universal-recognition check 2026-08-19: North Dakota enacted a recognition chapter (N.D.C.C. ch. 43-51.1, SB 2395, effective 2025-08-01), but it switches itself off for any board in an effective interstate compact — and this board is a Counseling Compact member — and its education clause defers to board-determined methods anyway.

Closed on the application's own text, which prints the trap twice: 'These hours are to be accrued after 60 credits are completed,' with 'After 60 Credits' stamped inside the experience grid. A post-hoc cure does not finish Rhode Island; it restarts it — coursework first, then 2,000 supervised hours all over again, then the NCMHCE. Add the second structural bar the packet surfaced: 24 semester credits of practicum and internship (12 each) inside the coursework requirement, which a MAP transcript cannot retroactively grow. And no discretionary exam-free endorsement appears anywhere in the packet.

Never, for anyone whose supervised hours predate the cure — and the sequencing trap is in the rule itself, not just the application: 216-RICR-40-05-11.3.2(A)(1)(c) requires the 60/90 credits 'prior to beginning post graduate experience and supervised case work hours.' The rule's endorsement provision (11.3.9) is written — but it recognizes only a CACREP-accredited 60-semester-hour degree as equivalent, which closes it for this degree as firmly as the by-exam route. Asking the board costs nothing; plan nothing on it.

NCMHCE (NCE not accepted) unless the discretionary endorsement applies.

Nine blocks on the Core Curriculum form: helping relationships and counseling theory at 9 credits minimum, then human growth and development, social and cultural foundations, group counseling, lifestyle and career development, appraisal, research and program evaluation, and professional orientation at 3 each, plus electives — inside a 60-semester/90-quarter total that also demands 12 semester credits of practicum and 12 of internship. The credit-denominated field experience is the uncurable part.

The rule page records the active version as an Amendment effective 05/15/2023, promulgated under R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 5-63.2 to implement the statutory amendments that created the associate-level licenses.

• The timing clause is now verified at both levels: the application prints it twice, and the rule text itself (11.3.2(A)(1)(c)) requires the credits before the post-graduate hours begin.
• Applications expire one year from receipt.
• If Washington's original supervision documentation exists on file with DOH, the packet allows it to be sent in lieu of chasing old supervisors — useful knowledge for other states too.