A bureaucratic backlog is frustrating Californians on the verge of becoming licensed therapists.
It’s been a rough time for our mental health. And thanks to a bureaucratic backlog in Sacramento, it’s been rough for many of the Californians who want to help us.for how some therapists-in-training would track the hours of experience they need to get licensed, supporters greeted it as a “welcome simplification” of the law. But many applicants were eager to get approved under the old rules — so many that they deluged the licensing board with applications before the rules changed.
Supervisors can charge fees — sometimes significant ones — to oversee their work. “It really affects you financially,” said Casey Mouton, an associate marriage and family therapist who turned in her application last month and is worried about the backlog. “If you work in private practice as an associate, if you’re lucky you’re getting to split your fee 50-50.”
People seeking to become LMFTs need to log 3,000 hours of supervised experience to seek a license. Under the old system, those hours were broken intocategories, with limits on how many hours in some categories could count. The new system is streamlined, but “most people who had started down Path A didn’t necessarily want to switch over to Path B,” said Cathy Atkins, deputy executive director of the California Assn. of Marriage and Family Therapists.
One associate therapist, who asked to speak anonymously because she did not want to jeopardize her application, said she opted to apply in December because she would be much further from finishing under the new system. Some applicants may have also wanted to get paperwork in before a fee increase went into effect in January.
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