Real Licensed Counselors Must Get Parental Consent to Treat a Minor - Why Don't "School Counselors"?

State education departments are unqualified to certify and regulate "mental health workers" - and why would we want them to?

There’s a reason why “school” counselors have “school” in the title - they are, quite literally, confined to doing whatever they do to kids at school.

They aren’t allowed to practice independently - which requires a “license” from a state agency with statutory authority to regulate a profession. In Arizona, that agency is the Board of Behavioral Health …