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Hello,

My name is Patricia Evans and I emailing you in hopes that you may be able to provide me with guidance/advisement. I just recently moved here from Missouri, where I obtained my masters degree in counseling. My practicum was done in a mental health agency, rather than in a school setting. However, I want to be work on becoming a certified school guidance counselor and need advise on what I need to do. I am uncertain on whether or not I should enroll in a school counseling practicum and complete that, or if I can simply find a school counselor who is willing to supervise me. Also, I need to know how long the practicum needs to be. Many school counseling programs that I looked into require a practicum of about 100 field hours and an internship of about 600 field hours. If you could help me with this, I would appreciate it very much. Thank you and have a great day!
School Counselor On 8/09/10, Trisha wrote:

Hi, I'm a certified school counselor. Your Master's sounds like it's in the area of community/clinical counseling. You will need to have a Master's in school counseling (or a Master's in Education with a school counseling emphasis) to be employed by most districts here. Some of your Master's credits might apply t...See More
Sep 13, 2010


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