Mental Health Counselor License

Washington State holds 12,609 active credentials of this type — 2.3% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Mental Health Counselor License is a License — the broadest of Washington’s credentials. Where the state licenses a profession, it is generally unlawful to practise it without holding one, and the holder answers to the Department for how they practise.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 304,441 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a license differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 12,609 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 12,601 of these 12,609 credentials (99.9%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Mental Health Counselor License credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2001. 3,173 of the 12,609 were issued in 2024 or later — 25.2% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

38 of the 12,609 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.3% — and 63 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

12,609 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 12,609 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Mental Health Counselor License expiring in 2026 — 3,619
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2001 — 926
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2007 — 176
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2009 — 194
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2010 — 334
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2011 — 257
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2012 — 250
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2013 — 310
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2014 — 371
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2015 — 389
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2016 — 481
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2017 — 528
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2018 — 529
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2019 — 691
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2020 — 517
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2021 — 791
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2022 — 968
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2023 — 947
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2024 — 1,097
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2025 — 963
• Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2026 — 1,113

Credentials of a similar size

• Physician And Surgeon License 31,099
• Nursing Assistant Registration 25,386
• Medical Assistant Certification 20,392
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License 18,863
• Dental Assistant Registration 17,158
• Emergency Medical Technician Certification 14,905
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772
• Pharmacy Technician Certification 10,038
• Licensed Practical Nurse 9,895

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.