Counselor Licensure in Wyoming: LPC Requirements, Hours and Exams

The entry rung is a license, not a registration: the Provisional Professional Counselor.

The statute describes provisional licensure as a means to continue progress towards satisfactory completion of all licensure requirements, and the provisional licensee may practice only under the supervision of a qualified clinical supervisor.

Unless extended, a provisional license expires thirty-six (36) months after issuance or upon issuance of the full license, whichever comes first.

The rules add an employment structure: a PPC works under the administrative supervision of an employer, and Chapter 1's definition states that an independent-contract arrangement does not meet that standard.

Chapter 7 also lets the Board grant a PPC to a graduate up to six semester hours short of the education requirement, provided the missing course work is in professional orientation or ethics and the practicum and internship are complete.

The statute requires a counseling master's or doctorate meeting the board's content standards, and Chapter 11 implements that through accreditation.

Section 3(a) accepts a graduate degree from a CACREP- or CORE-accredited counseling program.

The non-accredited route in Section 3(b) requires a degree substantially similar in content to the CACREP standards, with a course-work floor that rises for newer graduates — the hour totals are quoted below.

The degree must include a practicum of at least 100 clock hours over a term of at least ten weeks and an internship of 600 clock hours begun after the practicum, with at least 240 hours of direct service and weekly supervision built in.

Wyoming requires three thousand (3,000) hours of supervised clinical experience, and the statute writes the supervision floor into the same sentence, quoted below.

Chapter 11 puts structure on it: all 3,000 hours are completed after the award of the graduate degree, at least 1,200 must be direct client contact hours, and the experience must span not less than eighteen (18) months or more than thirty-six (36) months unless the Board grants an extension.

Section 4(b) adds a minimum of one hundred (100) post graduate degree hours of clinical supervision with a DQCS.

For an associate counting months, the window cuts both ways — the eighteen-month floor is as binding as the thirty-six-month ceiling.

Chapter 11 accepts a passing score, as established by the examination provider, on the National Counselor Examination (NCE) or the National Clinical Mental Health Examination — the rule's abbreviation is NCMHE — on the CRCC certification exam, or on other examinations approved by the Board.

The commission's exam table records no jurisprudence exam for Wyoming.

Two logistics rules matter as much as the content: the board's Examination Information page requires a valid Wyoming application or a provisional license before you sit, and attempts are capped.

The board page states the cap and its single escape hatch verbatim.

Wyoming has no separate supervisor credential.

A Designated Qualified Clinical Supervisor is any licensed professional on the statute's list: an LPC, licensed clinical social worker, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed addictions therapist, licensed psychologist, licensed psychiatrist, licensed physician with specialty in addictionology, or a licensed advanced practitioner of nursing with psychiatric specialty — designated to the Board before clinical practice begins.

The rules add that the addictionology physician route qualifies only for addictions-therapist candidates.

Chapter 18 sets the supervisor's own bar: licensed at the independent level for at least two years, four years of post-graduate professional experience, clear of discipline, and trained in supervision through a course or continuing education.

One DQCS may supervise no more than five supervisees, and supervision is delivered monthly at a fixed ratio to direct service hours, quoted below.

The rules count individual distance clinical supervision toward that ratio, but the sources read do not say how video hours apply against the statute's face-to-face supervision floor — an associate relying on video should confirm with the board first.

Chapter 11 defines the LPC's practice as a service integrating a wellness, pathology and multicultural model of human behavior, delivered face-to-face or by electronic delivery, with the sentence below carrying the clinical scope.

Electronic practice has its own limits: an LPC may provide only those services that are legal within the state where the recipient of services lives.

Two disclosure duties sit alongside that scope.

Under W.S.

33-38-111, a licensee must conspicuously display a professional disclosure statement and give a copy to each adult client at or before the first session.

And under Chapter 7, a provisional licensee must disclose the supervised nature of their services, including the supervisor's name and contact information, in advertising and in the disclosure statement.

The statute's reciprocity provision, quoted below, lets the Board license a counselor who holds a license in good standing in a state with substantially similar requirements.

Chapter 11 fills in what the board checks: a master's or higher in professional counseling, a passing score on an examination Chapter 11 accepts, and a license free from discipline.

An applicant who has held licenses in more than one state must verify that every license held within the last five (5) years is free of discipline, and an applicant who does not meet the reciprocity requirements may petition the Board for an exemption if good cause is shown.

That petition is the path for counselors whose home state's rules differ in the details.

Wyoming enacted the Interstate Compact for Licensed Professional Counselors in 2023 and is live under it as of September 2026.

The commission's announcement, quoted below, set the start date, and its homepage now lists Wyoming among the live states — a Wyoming LPC can hold a privilege to practice in each Compact state that is live.

The statute's implementing sections add two structural points: a license that does not meet compact requirements is a single-state license, and the Board is directed to issue a privilege to practice to an applicant licensed in a member state.

The commission's fee table lists a $250.00 privilege fee plus a $30.00 fee for Wyoming ($280.00 total), and the board's Compact page cautions that online platforms and insurance companies may not accept the privilege for billing purposes.

Licenses renew biennially under W.S.

33-38-107, and the rules key the expiration date to the licensee: licenses and certificates expire on the holder's date of birth every two years.

Chapter 14 requires a completed renewal application, the fee, and evidence of completion of forty-five (45) contact hours of CE that comply with Section 4 (Section 3(c)(ii)) — including at least three (3) contact hours in professional ethics and three (3) in suicide assessment or intervention (Section 4(b)(i)).

The board's Renewal and Relicensure page asks licensees to attest to exactly those figures, quoted below.

Since July 1, 2021, renewal applications must include fingerprints every four years in accordance with W.S.

33-38-105(j).

There is no late renewal: a license that is not timely renewed expires, and the board page notes that a license expired more than five years requires retaking the examination.

Three changes shape the current rules.

In 2021, the legislature repealed former subsections (e) through (m) of W.S.

33-38-106.

In February 2023, Governor Mark Gordon signed Senate File 0010 into law, quoted below, enacting the Counseling Compact as W.S.

33-38-201 and -202; the Commission began issuing Wyoming privileges on August 31, 2026.

Finally, the rule text this page rests on is filing ARR19-020, a 2019 rulemaking record: the board's site lists rules effective December 17, 2021, and the saved sources could not confirm whether Chapters 11 and 18 were amended after the filing.

Confirm hour, supervision and exam specifics with the board before relying on them.