CAMFT: Navigating the Road to Licensure

This event can be attended virtually and live via Zoom. A Zoom link to the webinar will be sent via email to registrants in their confirmation email.  A recording of the event will be provided for those who wish to earn credit for viewing the recorded version.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This presentation is intended to provide an overview of the licensing process for pre-licensees as they work toward licensure in marriage and family therapy. Topics to be discussed include: the marriage and family therapy licensing process; supervised experience requirements for applicants; supervisor qualifications and supervision requirements; licensing examinations; and common employment issues pre-licensees encounter with their supervisors.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS & LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain a greater understanding of the many challenges facing pre-licensees working toward licensure. 

Participants will be able to:

• Record the number of hours and the number of weeks of supervised experience required 
• Identify the “options” for counting hours currently available to pre-licensees 
• Apply how the 90-day rules impacts their ability to count hours  
• Differentiate how to advertise themselves in the various stages of licensing
• Organize their hours by documenting on the correct BBS related forms 
• Review their incremental progress toward licensure and decide on their best strategies to take to complete their 3000 hours 

OUTLINE

1. Master or Doctorate Degree

a. Requirements and Responsibilities

b. Trainee Telehealth

c. Collecting Hours as a Trainee

2. Upon Graduation

a. Application and Forms

b. Advertising

c. Supervisor Requirements

3. Registered Associate

a. Annual Renewal

b. Law and Ethics Tips

c. Collecting Hours as an Associate

4. Application for Licensure

a. Testing Accommodations

b. Supervision Requirements

c. Private Practice vs. Exempt

5. Clinical Examination

a. Waiting Game

b. Application for Licensure

c. CAMFT Membership

TARGET AUDIENCE

This event is for licensed and pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapists.

COST

$24 for Pre-licensed Members

$36 for Licensed Members

$19 for Non-Members

Refund/Cancellation Policy

Please visit our website: www.camft-sandiego.org/grievance

ACCOMODATIONS & GRIEVANCES

Please email the Education Chair at education@camft-sandiego.org

CERTIFICATES

Course Completion certificates will be awarded electronically in exchange for a completed evaluation form and quiz. Please make sure the Program Administrator has your correct email.

Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Partial credit will not be awarded.

For live viewing, participants must be present for the entire length of the workshop to be awarded credit. Participants will not be given CEU credit if they are more than 15 minutes late and/or do not stay for the entire length of the workshop.

This course is provided by the San Diego Chapter of the California association of marriage and family therapists (Provider #57330) is approved by the California association of marriage and family therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. San Diego chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists maintains responsibility for the program and all its content.

Please email the CEU Chair at ceuchair@camft-sandiego.org