[Adta] Re: Licensing as Professional Counselors and DMT's

[smh_dmt at ameritech.net]

Jennifer,
I applaud your hard work in Texas and empathize with your up hill battle!!!
It sounds like you are doing absolutely everything you can possibly do to
make this happen.  

I would like to respond to your question about supervision.  In the state of
Illinois d/mt's are allowed to sit for the LPC and LCPC exams (two years
apart).  When gathering supervision hours for the LCPC we are required to
receive that from an LCPC or higher level degreed clinician.  Fortunately we
now have LCPC 's who are also ADTR's so we can use those hours for both the
license and the ADTR.  Hours accrued with only an ADTR would NOT count.  I
would think that if the Psychiatrist is the one that is providing the
supervision and he's the one who writes the letter of recommendation and
signs off on your hours then it would work but if he won't do that then my
assumption is it won't work.  

It will be hard initially for you pioneers in TX but after a number of you
are licensed it becomes easier.

I hope this helps a bit.

Good Luck and keep up the great work.  Sounds like you might be in the home
stretch.

Stacey

Stacey Hurst, LCPC, ADTR, GLCMA
Part time faculty Columbia College Chicago
Dance/Movement Therapy Dept.
Coordinator GLCMA program
Clarus Center Clinician www.claruscenter.com
312-543-2133
 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: adta-bounces at adta.org [mailto:adta-bounces at adta.org] On Behalf Of
jenn at magnifymusic.com
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:54 AM
To: adta at adta.org
Subject: [Adta] Re: Licensing as Professional Counselors and DMT's

Hello everyone: As some of you are aware, we are "re-engaged" with a
dialogue with the Texas Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors,
since they state they have determined in the past that dance/movement
therapy is a counseling modality, but the degree is not "counseling
related."  The upshot of this is that they are refusing to look at degrees
with that title, and have refused a few of us over the past year in
obtaining the LPC license.  I have a lawyer working on the case and he
suggested to me that, in order to show the board a sense of cohesion among
our discipline, to have former students or perhaps even "heads" of these
Departments that offer the masters degree, place the classes in the
categories designated by the Texas Board to be within their requirements. 
I have done this with Columbia and I know Suzy Matheson has done it with
Antioch, however it would be most helpful to us if some of the former
students of Naropa, Pratt, Hahnemann, etc, could do the same.  Their
requirements are nothing new--etc: Human Development, Abnormal human
behavior, Appraisal or assessment techniques, counseling theories,
Counseling methods or techniques, Research, Lifestyle and career
development, social cultural and family issues, Professional orientation,
and practicum.  It would also be helpful to know if any of the DMTs that
have been licensed by your particular state were required to obtain
additional supervision by an LPC or type-supervisor, rather than having
your ADTR supervision count when it was also under the review of a
psychiatrist, for example.
Thanks in advance for your time and efforts.  We are working hard to set a
final precendent here in order for us to be viewed as the experienced and
knowledgeable clinicians that we are.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Edwards, MA, ADTR, NCC

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