Professional Assistance Program

Professional Assistance Program Overview

The goal of the professional assistance program is to provide for public protection through monitoring of licensed and provisional licensed professional counselors and to licensed and provisional licensed marriage and family therapists who may be functionally impaired in their ability to safely practice.

Participation in the program can be voluntary.  It may also be required as a prerequisite to continued mental health counseling practice or marriage and family therapy in accordance with the conditions of any consent order, compliance or adjudication hearing.

In order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state, as mandated by R.S. 37:1102 et seq., the Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners establishes the Professional Assistance Program. Authority for such program is contained at R.S. 37:1110 and 37:1120. This program is sometimes referred to hereafter as the “Professional Assistance Program”, or “PAP”.

Please click here for the Board Approved PAP Handbook