Missouri licenses independent clinical counselors as the LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), through the Missouri Committee for Professional Counselors (Division of Professional Registration). Missouri has enacted the Counseling Compact but is not issuing privileges yet. Below: what Missouri asks of a counselor already licensed in another state, and where those applications slow down.
Missouri LPC License Requirements
The independent clinical license in Missouri is the LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor).
Exams named for licensure: NCE. Applicants also pass the Missouri jurisprudence exam, an open-book online test through MyNBCE that cannot be waived.
3,000 hours of post-degree supervised experience for the independent license.
Those hours are completed under the associate credential, the PLPC (Provisional Licensed Professional Counselor).
Missouri requires a state law or jurisprudence exam.
Licensed elsewhere: Under RSMo 337.510.3, a counselor licensed for at least one year elsewhere applies with proof of licensure. The committee waives Missouri's exam, education and experience requirements if the other state had minimum requirements and verifies you met them; it may still require the state law exam.
How Much Does a Missouri LPC License Cost?
We have not published a Missouri figure yet
We have not verified Missouri Committee for Professional Counselors (Division of Professional Registration)'s current schedule, and board fees change between legislative sessions
Board: Missouri Committee for Professional Counselors (Division of Professional Registration)
We handle the Missouri application end-to-end.
Eligibility screening, document prep, board follow-ups, and tracking — so you don't lose a board meeting cycle to a missing form.
View full pricingWhere Missouri Applications Get Delayed
The endorsement route expects 1 year of licensure elsewhere. Count from the date your independent license was issued, not your associate license.
Supervised experience is 3,000 hours and 24 months, finished within five years, with 1,200 direct client hours and an hour of face-to-face supervision each week.
The board's compact page still says privilege applications were "expected to open in 2025"; Missouri was not issuing privileges as of 2026-10-08.
Supervisor attestations and verifications from other boards take the longest. Request them the week you decide to apply, not the week you file.
Renewing Your Missouri LPC License
CE Requirement
40 CE hours per renewal cycle
The Counseling Compact and Missouri
Missouri has enacted the Counseling Compact (July 6, 2023), but it is not issuing or accepting privileges yet. Each member state has to finish its own setup, including FBI fingerprint authority, before it goes live. Until it does, practicing in Missouri takes a full Missouri license, and holding a Missouri license does not yet give you a privilege anywhere else.
Addiction counselors in Missouri
Missouri credentials addiction counselors as CRADC, CRAADC and CCJP, through the Missouri Credentialing Board (IC&RC member board). That credential is separate from the LPC, and the Counseling Compact does not cover it. These are IC&RC certifications, not state licenses.
Keeping it current
Missouri renews the LPC on its own cycle, with 40 hours of continuing education per cycle. At least 20 of the 40 hours must be formal, including 2 hours of suicide assessment, referral, treatment and management training. If you hold licenses in several states, each runs its own calendar and its own CE rules, which is most of what our annual compliance service tracks.
Missouri LPC License FAQ
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Where these facts come from
Checked against primary sources. Boards change rules between sessions, so we confirm the current process again before anything is filed.
- requirements, one-year licensure route — checked 2026-10-08
- hours, NCE, jurisprudence exam, PLPC — checked 2026-10-08
- 40 CE hours — checked 2026-10-08
- board page — checked 2026-10-08
- compact implementation status — checked 2026-10-08
- member, not live, jurisprudence required — checked 2026-10-08
- SB 70 signed 2023-07-06 (via search result) — checked 2026-10-08
- addiction credentials — checked 2026-10-08
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