Section 801.142 - Supervised Clinical Experience Requirements and ConditionsAn 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.22 Tex. Admin. Code § 801.142
The provisions of this §801.142 adopted to be effective April 20, 1994, 19 TexReg 2386; amended to be effective November 22, 1996, 21 TexReg 11588; amended to be effective April 11, 2001, 26 TexReg 2713; amended to be effective July 2, 2006, 31 TexReg 5111; amended to be effective May 18, 2008, 33 TexReg 3758; amended to be effective December 19, 2010, 35 TexReg 10958; amended to be effective March 31, 2013, 38 TexReg 1982; amended by Texas Register, Volume 39, Number 46, November 14, 2014, TexReg 9016, eff. 11/23/2014; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 11, March 17, 2017, TexReg 1256, eff. 3/26/2017; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 09, March 1, 2019, TexReg 1150, eff. 3/7/2019; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 40, October 2, 2020, TexReg 7028, eff. 10/5/2020; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 09, March 3, 2023, TexReg 1310, eff. 3/7/2023; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 12, March 22, 2024, TexReg 1941, eff. 3/27/2024; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 45, November 8, 2024, TexReg 8916, eff. 11/14/2024