Clinical Supervision for Texas LMSWs & LPC Associates

Board-compliant supervision designed to strengthen your clinical skill, confidence, and professional identity.

Working toward independent clinical licensure is a major step in your professional journey. Whether you are an LMSW pursuing your LCSW or an LPC Associate working toward full LPC licensure, you are balancing client needs, agency expectations, ethical challenges, documentation requirements, and your own professional development.

You deserve supervision that is more than a signature or a requirement. You deserve support that helps you become a grounded, ethical, confident, and effective clinician.

At Simply Therapeutic Counseling, we provide structured and supportive clinical supervision for Texas LMSWs and LPC Associates. Supervision focuses on professional growth, clinical competence, accountability, and meeting Texas licensure requirements.

Texas LMSW-to-LCSW Supervision Requirements

Under Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC) requirements, LMSWs pursuing LCSW licensure must complete the required supervised clinical social work experience under an approved LCSW-Supervisor.

Supervision includes:

• 3,000 hours of supervised clinical social work experience
• Completion of experience within the timeframe established by the Texas Social Work Board
• At least 100 hours of clinical supervision
• Supervision provided by a Texas-approved LCSW-S
• Individual or qualifying group supervision
• Appropriate documentation of clinical experience and supervision
• Completion of applicable licensing requirements, including the ASWB Clinical Examination, Texas Jurisprudence Examination, background check, and required application documentation

Supervision is structured to help you remain organized and intentional throughout the licensure process while strengthening your clinical skills.

Texas LPC Associate-to-LPC Supervision Requirements

Texas LPC Associates must practice under the supervision of a Board-approved LPC Supervisor while completing their post-graduate supervised experience.

Current Texas requirements include:

• 3,000 hours of supervised experience
• At least 1,500 hours of direct client counseling
• Experience completed over no fewer than 18 months
• At least 4 hours of direct supervision each month
• Supervision may be provided individually or in a group setting
• Individual supervision may include up to two Associates
• Group supervision consists of three or more Associates
• No more than 50% of total supervision hours may be completed through group supervision
• A Supervisory Agreement Form must be established with the Board-approved LPC Supervisor before supervision begins
• Supervised experience must be documented for submission when applying to upgrade to full LPC status
• Applicable licensing requirements, including the Texas LPC Jurisprudence Examination, must also be completed

LPC Associates may have up to two approved supervisors at the same time.

What You Can Expect in Supervision

Our supervision experience is designed to build the clinician you want to become—not simply help you accumulate hours.

You’ll receive:

• A collaborative and supportive space to process cases, challenges, and clinical questions
• Clinical skill-building in assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, intervention, documentation, and ethical decision-making
• Trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches to clinical practice
• Support navigating boundaries, ethical dilemmas, workplace challenges, role confusion, and difficult clinical situations
• Opportunities to strengthen case conceptualization and clinical reasoning
• Constructive feedback that encourages professional accountability and growth
• Structured support for tracking supervision requirements, documentation, and professional goals
• Guidance around professional identity, specialization, agency practice, leadership, and private practice development

Supervision That Goes Beyond the Hours

Supervision with Simply Therapeutic Counseling is for emerging clinicians who want more than a checklist.

We value thoughtful clinical practice, ethical decision-making, self-awareness, professional accountability, and continued growth. You can expect supportive guidance along with honest feedback that challenges you to think critically about your work and become increasingly confident in your clinical judgment.

Our goal is simple: help you meet your licensure requirements while developing the knowledge, confidence, and professional identity needed for independent clinical practice.