Complimentary from the Center
- Eligibility checker
- Do I qualify to supervise?
- Training pathways
- Which two routes does the rule allow?
- Collaborative Care note
- Do these hours count?
- Source notes
- Where did this come from?
No form between you and the guide. It is yours either way.
The Supervisor Eligibility Checker is complete on its own. It answers one bounded question: whether you qualify to supervise, and what your state’s pathway requires. It is not a sample of something else.
A larger supervisor practice kit covers agreements, documentation, fee guidance and capacity planning. That answers a different question: how to run supervision as part of a practice. Public guidance can explain a rule. Your state, licenses, payers, contracts and staffing decide what applies to you. Kedge Marketplace is the separate platform for that individualized work.
A license is not the same as an available supervisor.
Public records tell us who could supervise. They cannot tell us:
- Who actually supervises?
- Who has room for one more person?
- What does supervision cost?
- What keeps eligible clinicians from supervising?
- What would change their answer?
Figure 01
Where the pipeline narrows.
The license roster can show the path. It cannot tell us whether someone is available at the narrowest point.
The missing information is the supervision study. Your experience helps answer the question the public records cannot.
What the license records tell us, and what they don’t.
The license records can tell us how many counselors and social workers hold full or limited licenses. They cannot tell us how many fully licensed clinicians actually supervise, have an opening, or would consider taking another supervisee. That missing number is what this study is trying to find.
We can count
- Fully licensed clinicians
- Limited-license clinicians
- Licenses issued and renewed
The roster cannot tell us
- Who actually supervises
- Who has an opening right now
- What supervision costs
- Why eligible clinicians do not supervise
The supervision study measures the part the license roster cannot.
A preliminary estimateThe Observatory’s current model suggests the gap could be on the order of nine thousand supervision slots in Michigan. This is a working estimate, not a measured count. The study is intended to replace assumptions with better evidence.
Figure 02
The supervisor training requirement.
Two routes the rule allows. Both must cover the same nine subjects.
Path A
2 semester hours
Graduate credit in counseling supervision
Path B
30 contact hours
Workshop training in counseling supervision
Both routes must cover all nine subjects
- Roles and functions of counseling supervisors
- Models of counseling supervision
- Mental health-related professional development
- Methods and techniques in counseling supervision
- Supervisory relationship issues
- Cultural issues in supervision
- Group supervision
- Legal and ethical issues in counseling supervision
- Evaluation of the supervisee and the supervision process
What the rule says
Two semester hours of graduate credit, or thirty contact hours of workshop training, covering all nine subjects.
What the state told the Center
The rule is not specific about the training provider.
What the rule leaves open
Whether asynchronous, self-paced online delivery counts as workshop training. The published rule does not say, and the Center has not found guidance that answers it.
The Checker shows what the rule requires and where the state has not supplied an answer. It does not certify a course.
A separate open question
Do Collaborative Care hours count toward supervised experience?
Every state requires supervised experience before a limited-license clinician reaches full licensure. This is a different question from the training-format question above, and it has its own answer to find. Whether qualifying work performed as a Collaborative Care behavioral health care manager counts toward those hours remains an open question Michigan should answer.
This guide does not pretend the answer is settled.
The policy work to seek a clear answer belongs with the Integral Neuroscience Initiative.
The exchange · about six minutes
Six minutes, if the guide earned them.
Public records tell us who could supervise. Only supervisors can tell us who actually does. About six minutes on your current capacity, what gets in the way, and what might make you willing to supervise one more clinician gives us evidence the license rosters cannot.
Findings go to respondents first.
About 6 minutes
Current supervision · available capacity · cost · barriers · what might change
The survey
The study is not collecting responses yet.
When it opens, the invitation you received will return you to this page. The guide above is complete and yours to use now.
At the end, three permissions are asked separately: whether we may follow up, whether we may quote you anonymously, and whether you want the findings. None is required. You will see any proposed quote before we use it.