Post-master's Degree Clinical Field Experience Requirements

(1) Eligible applicants must complete, in no less than two and no more than eight years, a minimum of two years of Full Time or equivalent Part Time, post-Master's degree Supervised Clinical Field Experience and Direct Client Contact Experience. Post Master's Degree Supervised Clinical Field Experience and Direct Client Contact Experience may not begin until the applicant has completed 60 semester credits (80 quarter credits), including all requirements under 262 CMR 2.05. (2) Eligible applicants must demonstrate the completion of the following post-Master's experience requirements: (a) 3,360 total hours; which includes: (b) 960 Contact Hours of Direct Client Contact Experience, of which: 1. a minimum of 610 Direct Client Contact Experience Contact Hours are in individual, couples, or family counseling; and 2. a maximum of 350 Direct Client Contact Experience Contact Hours may be in group counseling. (3) Eligible applicants must demonstrate the completion of the following supervision hour requirements during post-Master's experience: (a) at least 130 total hours of supervision of which at least 75 hours must be in Individual Supervision; (b) a minimum of one Supervisory Contact Hour of supervision for every 16 Contact hours of Direct Client Contact Experience; and (c) if working Part Time, supervision that is pro-rated no less than one Supervisory Contact Hour bi-weekly. (4) Eligible applicants must demonstrate the following supervision conditions: (a) the applicant must have a formal relationship with the Clinical Field Experience Site; (b) the supervisor must be a staff member of the Clinical Field Experience Site who is an Approved Supervisor or a Contract Supervisor so long as written notice of agreements with a contract supervisor are provided to and maintained on file by appropriate personnel at the Clinical Field Experience Site; (c) annual evaluations of the supervisee must be completed by the Approved Supervisor or Contract Supervisor and reviewed and maintained on file by appropriate personnel at the site; and (5) The provision of an Emergency Contact must be in place for all Clinical Field Experience Sites. The Emergency Contact individual shall not replace the requirement for an Approved Supervisor or Contract Supervisor.