Licensed Professional Counselor are practitioners who have completed either a master’s or doctorate degree in counseling. Counseling is a change making process, including settings such as personal, vocational, educational, and relational. It is traditionally short term (less than 6 months) and focuses on situational and developmental changes. In addition, counselors are also trained to do assessments, diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy drawing from theoretical models. LPCs have subspecialties: addiction counseling, career counseling, gerontological counseling, marriage and family counseling, mental health counseling, school counseling, rehabilitation counseling. Each requires specialty training and certification that is licensed by the state in which the counselor works.
The CHAI Provider Directory is a directory and is not a referral service. We do not verify the license or credentials of anyone listed, and we know nothing of their professional background, other than what they have told us. Therefore, we request that you please use the directory as you would a telephone directory, to locate professionals in your community. Once you locate a professional, please investigate their background to insure that they are licensed, and that they do not have a history of complaints or disciplinary problems with their professional licensing board. No recommendations or guarantees are made regarding the quality of service you might expect or receive from any of the professionals or businesses listed.