SECTION 86:16-11-2. Acceptable supervised experience

  Supervised experience is acceptable when:

(1)   it begins after all applicable academic requirements as stated in Subchapter 7 have been completed, and supervision agreement has been approved by the Department.

(2)   official application for licensure has been made. This includes Application, application fee, Internship/Practicum Documentation Form, official graduate transcript, three (3) Document of Recommendation Forms, completed criminal background check, On-Site Supervisor Verification Form, and Supervision Agreement. Applicants who have met part or all of supervision experience requirements for clinical membership in AAMFT will be considered to have met part or all of the supervision requirements for licensure in Oklahoma.

(3)   it consists of the performance of therapy activities as described in Section 1925.2, subsection 7 and 9 of the LMFT Act and contains the following characteristics:

(A)   supervision focuses on the raw data from a supervisee's continuing clinical practice, which may be available to the supervisor through a combination of direct observation, co-therapy, written clinical notes, and audio and video recordings and the LMFT Act and Regulations.

(B)   supervision is a process clearly distinguishable from personal psychotherapy, and is contracted in order to serve professional/vocational goals.

(C)   individual supervision shall be face-to-face with one supervisor and one or two supervisees.

(D)   group supervision may be done with up to six supervisees and a supervisor.

(4)   supervised experience hours may be accrued in academic, governmental, or private practice settings.

(5)   the supervised experience is accrued in a private for-profit or private not-for-profit therapy setting without having an approved LMFT supervisor providing on-site supervision, if the agency employing the LMFT Candidate provides an on-site supervisor who is available to the LMFT Candidate any time services are being rendered by the LMFT Candidate, and the LMFT Candidate is receiving supervision for licensure from an approved LMFT supervisor. Out of state on-site supervisors may be approved on a case-by-case basis.

[Source: Transferred from 310:400-11-2 by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 3(F), eff 11-1-13 (see Editor’s Note at beginning of this Chapter)]