Mental Health Counselor License first issued in 2012

250 of Washington’s 12,609 active mental health counselor license credentials — 2.0% of them — were first issued in 2012.

The 2012 intake, and where it stands now

These 250 people were first credentialled as mental health counselor license during 2012 and are still active today. A first-issue year is the closest thing this register has to a start date: it says when the Department first recognised someone in this role, not how long they have worked in health care.

0 of the 250 active credentials in this group carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.0% — and 3 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

250 credentials of this type were first issued in 2012. 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.

Who they are

This is a slice of a bigger group: all 12,609 mental health counselor license credentials, and what a license is.

Other groups of a similar size

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• Mental Health Counselor Associate License — 2022 253
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License — 2012 252
• Pharmacy Technician Certification — 2020 252
• Physical Therapist License — 2014 251
• Physician And Surgeon License — 1994 251
• Dietitian Certification — 2024 249
• Emergency Medical Technician Certification — 2012 249
• Radiologic Technologist Certification — 1992 249
• Birth Doula Certification — 2026 248
• Nursing Assistant Registration — 2000 248