Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- None
A person who provides professional counseling and mental health services, which includes, but is not limited to, the application of clinical counseling theory and techniques to prevent and alleviate mental and emotional disorders and psychopathology and to promote optimal mental health, rehabilitation, treatment, relationship to assist individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations to alleviate emotional disorders, to understand conscious and unconscious motivation, to resolve emotional, relationship, and attitudinal conflicts, and to modify behaviors that interfere with effective, emotional, social, adaptive, and intellectual functioning.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Military and veterans
- Expedited processing is available for military and spouses, with a temporary license available in the interim
Issuing body
- Department
- Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
- Address
- 320 West Washington Springfield, IL 62786
- Phone
- (217) 782-8556
- Agency website
- https://www.idfpr.com/
- Licence page
- https://www.idfpr.com/
- Last updated
- September 5, 2024
Occupations (O*NET)
- Professional Counselor 21-1011.00
Source and verification
This record is Illinois's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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