Should you be worried about whether your therapist has had enough hours of training? Not if they’ve met Oregon’s new licensing requirements. • Newsroom • Lewis & Clark

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"Should you be worried about whether your therapist has had enough hours of training? Not if they’ve met Oregon’s new licensing requirements."

Media Source:

Portland Monthly

Media URL:

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/health-and-wellness/2023/12/therapist-portland-oregon-training

Date:

2023/12/13

Summary:

A local journalist became concerned when Oregon lowered the number of training hours required for new therapists. A Lewis & Clark expert was able to reassure her.

“We talked about this quite a bit at the Oregon Counseling Association,” says former OCA president Jeffrey Christensen, codirector of the professional mental health counseling program at Lewis & Clark College. “But these hour changes don’t really reduce the time frame for folks to get licensed—it’s still five to six years of training. Oregon had much higher client hour requirements compared to other states.”

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