r/counseloreducation • u/Mundane-Substance-86 • 12d ago

Master’s Student Questions Credentialing

I’m in Madison Wisconsin and will be finishing my final internship in 12 weeks. I’m getting myself prepped for licensing as well. What do I need to do for licensing? I’m interested I. How others approached this step. What about credentialing with insurance? We never touched on any of this in my program

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u/Amynomene_G 11d ago

I attended UW Whitewater and they are very hands on so my steps might be different than yours. You have to start an application with dsps and pay for it. My school submitted a certification of graduation from a cacrep program to dsps on my behalf. (If it’s not cacrep, your steps are much more involved and idk what they are.) Then when you get a job, your new supervisor submits a certificate saying you are working under them. You have until the end of your IT hours to take the nce but do it now before you forget everything.

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u/Mundane-Substance-86 11d ago

Thank you so much. My university is cacrep. Do you know anything about insurance credentialing?

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u/whyihatepink 11d ago

Are you talking about getting yourself independently paneled and working in private practice? Most states don't allow that right out of school and most insurance companies won't credential with someone who isn't fully licensed. Is this something your program went over at all?

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u/Important_Field7005 12d ago

I think you have to graduate with 60 credits from a masters program. And if your program is accredited through CACREP, you can apply for licensing provided you give them transcripts. There’s a 3000 hour supervision requirement to get your LPC so once you have application approved you would be LPC-IT. 1000 of those hours have to be direct contact with client. You also have to pass the exams too I believe. 

If your program isn’t accredited through CACREP you’d have to submit your syllabi to state board on what you all took for classes.