20:80:18:09Supervision requirements -- Addiction counselor.

Work experience required for certification or licensure as an addiction counselor must take place pursuant to a board-approved plan of supervision and consist of the following: (1) A minimum of one hundred hours of supervision with a board-approved supervisor for every one thousand hours of work experience required for certification or licensure as set forth in § 20:80:16:02 or 20:80:16:03; (2) At least one hour of supervision must take place for every twenty hours of work by the supervisee; (3) Supervision must include at least five hours of each of the following areas for each one hundred hours of supervision required: (a) Presentation and staffing of cases by the supervisee; (b) Direct observations of the supervisee through in-person or recorded sessions or co-counseling with the supervisee; (c) Review of American Society of Addiction Medicine Criteria; (d) Review of supervisee recordkeeping; and (e) Review of ethical standards for drug and alcohol addiction professionals; and (4) Work experience hours and supervision hours must be recorded on a form provided by the board. Supervision may be individual or with a group. For the purpose of this chapter, individual supervision is supervision between a supervisor and up to two supervisees. Group supervision is supervision between a supervisor and three or more supervisees. No more than fifty hours of the required supervision may be group supervision for each one hundred hours of supervision required. Supervision may take place by electronic means, as prescribed by chapter 20:80:21 and must be synchronous.

Source: 53 SDR 40, effective October 11, 2026.