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ALL CSW/MFT/MHC licensees and registered intern licenses will expire on March 31, 2009. Renewal notices will be mailed in December 2008. It is the licensee’s/registered intern’s responsibility to renew their license whether they receive the renewal notice or not. You may renew your license online beginning in December 2008. To keep your license out of delinquent status, online renewals must be completed by midnight March 31, 2009. Renewals that are mailed must be postmarked by midnight March 31, 2009.

Fee information, renewal forms and online renewal, can be accessed by clicking on the link shown below for your specific profession.

Registered Intern Renewal Information

There is no continuing education requirement for registered interns. If you have completed the minimum requirement of supervised experience as a registered intern but have not completed the requirements for licensure, please review the following rule.

64B43.008 Supervision Required Until Licensure.

An applicant who practices clinical social work, marriage and family therapy and/or mental health counseling must continue in “supervision” as defined in Rule 64B42.002, F.A.C., and use the term “registered clinical social work intern, registered marriage and family therapy intern, or registered mental health counseling intern” until he or she is in receipt of a license to practice the profession for which he or she has applied or a letter from the Department stating he or she is licensed, even if the two (2) year postmasters supervision requirement has been satisfied.

LCSW/LMFT/LMHC Renewal Information

Licensees receiving their first license on November 1, 2006 or after are in their first renewal cycle and are exempt from continuing education requirements for the current biennium. All other licensees must complete 30 hours of continuing education for the biennium ending March 31, 2009. The hours must have been accrued between April 1, 2007 and March 31, 2009. Three of the hours must be in ethics and boundary issues and two of the hours must be in the prevention of medical errors. Further renewal and approved continuing education course information can be found in Rule 64B46.001 and 6.002, F.A.C. Approved continuing education providers can be found on this website by clicking on continuing education.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Marriage & Family Therapist

Mental Health Counselor