An applicant for LMFT must complete supervised clinical experience
acceptable to the council.
(1) The LMFT Associate must have completed a minimum
of two years of work experience in marriage and family therapy, which
includes a minimum of 3,000 hours of supervised clinical practice.
The required 3,000 hours must include at least 1,500 hours providing
direct clinical services, of which:
(A) no more than 750 hours may be provided via technology-assisted
services (as approved by the supervisor); and
(B) at least 500 hours must be providing direct clinical
services to couples or families.
(2) The remaining required hours, not covered by paragraph
(1) above, may come from related experiences, including workshops,
public relations, writing case notes, consulting with referral sources,
etc.
(3) An LMFT Associate must obtain a minimum of 200
hours of supervision by an LMFT-S during the required 3,000 hours,
and at least 100 of these hours must be individual supervision.
(A) An LMFT Associate, when providing services, must
receive a minimum of one hour of supervision every week, except for
good cause shown.
(B) Supervision may be provided in person or by live
video or, if the supervisor determines that in-person or live video
supervision is not accessible, by telephone.
(C) An LMFT Associate may apply up to 100 graduate
internship supervision hours toward the required 200 hours of supervision
required for licensure as an LMFT.
(4) For an LMFT applicant who begins the graduate degree
program used for their license application before September 1, 2025,
staff may count graduate internship hours exceeding the requirements
set in §801.114(b)(8) of this title toward the minimum requirement
of at least 3,000 hours of supervised clinical practice under the
following conditions.
(A) No more than 500 excess graduate internship hours,
of which no more than 250 hours may be direct clinical services to
couples or families, completed under a Commission on Accreditation
for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) accredited graduate
program may be counted toward the minimum requirement of at least
3,000 hours of supervised clinical practice.
(B) No more than 400 excess graduate internship hours,
of which no more than 200 hours may be direct clinical services to
couples or families, completed under a non-COAMFTE-accredited graduate
program may be counted toward the minimum requirement of at least
3,000 hours of supervised clinical practice.
(5) An LMFT Associate may practice marriage and family
therapy in any setting under supervision, such as a private practice,
public or private agencies, hospitals, etc.
(6) During the post-graduate, supervised clinical experience,
both the supervisor and the LMFT Associate may have disciplinary actions
taken against their licenses for violations of the Act, the Council
Act, or council rules.
(7) Within 30 days of the initiation of supervision,
an LMFT Associate must submit to the council a Supervisory Agreement
Form for each council approved supervisor.
(8) An LMFT Associate may have no more than two council-approved
supervisors at a time, unless given prior approval by the council
or its designee.
(9) Applicants with a master's degree that qualifies
under §§801.112 and 801.113 may count any supervision and
experience (e.g., practicum, internship, externship) completed after
conferral of the master's degree and as part of a doctoral program,
toward the supervision and experience requirements set out in §801.142.
A doctoral program must lead to a degree that qualifies under §§801.112
and 801.113 before the Council will award credit for supervision and
experience under this provision.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §801.142 adopted to be effective October 5, 2020, 45 TexReg 7028; amended to be effective March 7, 2023, 48 TexReg 1310; amended to be effective March 27, 2024, 49 TexReg 1941; amended to be effective November 14, 2024, 49 TexReg 8916 |
