Go Girl! I am In N.C.! Your video was perfect for me as a senior citizen... I have an LCMFT-A therapist and used google to find the meaning of an associate. I was embarrassed to ask the therapist... Her youthfulness is an asset for me as I believe generational differences are so important to experience. Though you have fewer hours, you like she, can help elder adults improve skills interacting with younger professionals. Aging has never frightened me; however, changes in society are difficult to master when one is more of a spectator, than participant.
I am in my 3rd course at North Central University and your videos have helped me so much ❤️. You have made me so excited about going through this journey. You are amazing
I googled what is a licensed associate marriage and family therapist and this video popped up on google 👏🏾👏🏾 so cool. My state calls us a licensed intern. Same difference. Licensed associate is smoother than the word intern. Some are uneasy about this.
Oh wow, congratulations! I am so happy for you. Your videos are so great, you have open my eyes on what marriage and family therapy is. I am now looking into pursuing a masters in MFT.
Congratulations!! 💕 I was wondering if you can do a video on finding your style as a therapist? In grad school, I always heard professors telling us that we should have a specific model that you like to use and know your style by the time you graduate. I just graduated back in May and working but I still have no idea what model I'm more attuned with and what my therapeutic style is, and I feel that it causes me to get stuck with clients at times.
Congratulations!!! I have follow you because your content is so informative. I am a military spouse and getting my Masters in MFT. I always have questions about GA since that’s where I will obtain my hours (and it’s home) and I come to you FIRST!!! Congratulations and I hope to connect with you in the future!
Congrats on becoming fully licensed!!! We need more therapist that we can identify with. ouch the comments so shady..."so basically you're (just?) an intern
Thank you!! Haha if I didn't know how much it varies across the states, my feelings would be hurt 😂. In some places, the terms really are interchangeable.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS! I'm delighted for you but not surprised at all! Here proving to all of us that taking a chance on yourself and meeting your vision halfway with hard work really does pay off! I hope you reward yourself with a cheese and wine party...emphasis on the cheese xx
Congratulations! That’s exciting to be a LMFT. It’s interesting to learn about the differences between states in terms of the verbiage used to describe where a therapist is at post bachelors or masters. I currently have my masters in social work. Here in Arizona you are basically an intern in you practice while in your bachelors or masters program. Post grad your just a social worker with a masters degree and after you can earn more pay with your masters degree post taking the ASWB exam. Then if you want to earn more pay, after officially accumulating supervision hours from the 2-3 years towards being a licensed clinical social worker, then you can do private practice or become a superior. I am going to be starting a new job soon, could you make a video on how to prepare for a therapist job?.. thanks for sharing your video! :)
Congratulations!!! I am in the process of picking out online grad school programs to apply for. I live in GA but the schools in GA aren't fully online and too far away. Can you make a video about the process of doing an online program that may not fill all the GA requirements and how it the process of fulfilling those extra hours to get licensed will be? Thanks!
Congratulations!!! I’m happy for you and I love your channel! I just started school today on my journey to being an LMFT & LPC. Side note: do you know the name of your nail color? I love it!
Congratulations!!! California is different. I am a registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. So there’s no license, and while in school I was a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee. Once registered, within your first year of being an Associate MFT, you have to take a Law and Ethics exam. Then when you accrue 3,000, you will take the LMFT exam 😅 There are HUGE differences state to state, and I hope that everyone pays close attention to their state board website.
Thank you! Oh wow! Yes, California is probably the most strenuous. Many schools will even have specialization for the California track because there are more credit hours required than the other states. I agree that it's very important to do your research!
YAYYYYY! Congratulations, Steph 🥳 such a major accomplishment! I just had to look up Arizona’s licensure options and they too have LAMFT and LMFT. Looking forward to watching your journey continue!
This makes sense, I wished Nevada looked the mft licensure process this way. In school we completed a practicum. Post masters we are required to complete a “state internship” and we used to be required test after we accumulate at least half of our hours (1,500) now we can test as soon as we are approved for our “state internship” we are required to accumulate 3,000 hours and pass our mft exam.
Could you do a video about graduate schools which accept students from behavioural science backgrounds or any other backgrounds? Love that you provide us with so much information ❤️❤️ Please keep making videos like these ❤️❤️
This is so confusing and overwhelming! Thank you so much! I was worried that after graduating, those 2 years/3,000 hours was basically an unpaid internship because you are not licensed yet. How exactly do you find that job/portion of your licensure journey? Like how would you search that in Google? I’m asking all of these questions for my wife who is currently in school online at touro university getting her masters in MFT. We wanted to move after she graduated to Seattle (we live in PA) and her start her 3,000 supervised hours there. We just needed to find out how to search for that job and if it’s paid! Also was wondering if it will be an issue getting an online degree from a school based in California then doing those 2 years in Seattle! Thank you!
Congratulations Steph!! That is sooo exciting :) I was wondering how you juggled working and being an intern during grad school? I'm still in grad school currently and have some time before my internship but I'm already wondering how I will maintain an income and get my hours! Let me know if you discussed it in another video :) thank you!!
I do touch on this in “I Quit My Corporate Job to Work for Free,” but long story short it didn’t work out and I ultimately had to quit the job because it was too much for me. Some people do it though. We pretty much relied on my husband’s income at that time.
#1 Congratulations!!!!!!!! #2 I'm excited to start my practicum also very nervous about this because I am unaware of what can happen Again, Congratulations and thanks for the info
You’ve got this! It takes the pressure off if you remember that your main job is to listen and it’s not your responsibility to “fix” anyone or anything.
Congratulations!!! I am in my MFT program in CA and I will be starting practicum in the Spring. Can you please share a video on what to expect for practicum? I am nervous but also excited!
I practice from Nevada and we use the term mfti post degree can also start a private practice under supervision with cash pay clients. We also don't have to wait to take the exam too.
Wow you could work with Cigna as an associate? I’m in ohio and Cigna only wants independent licenses. So here it’s LMFT for dependent license (associates) and then fully license is LIMFT.
Yes, but I should also note that my notes had to be billed to my supervisor. Wow! See the difference in titles is so interesting and confusing across the states!
Thank you! No, you’re licensed on a state-by-state basis. If I want to apply my licensure in other states, I’d have to go through their application process.
Paperwork vlog please..... I just moved to GA from NYS and I am lost. I have a good internship place but worried that I may not get all my hours due to my full time job as a School Counselor.
Congratulations!! I just found your page and I'm going through them one after another. I love the way you are and you are unbiased but not afraid to be yourself! I wish you continued luck
I didn’t use it, so I don’t really have any thoughts unfortunately. There are some people in the comments on my video about the exam that talk about it though I believe.
@@StephAnya we register at the end of the four year course once all requirements are completed. At the end of year one it’s a certificate, year 2 a postgraduate certificate or diploma. Years 3 and 4 are masters level. There is a viva in the final year of the Masters. Once passed, it’s straight to registration using either systemic psychotherapist, family therapist or couples and family therapist title. The UK doesn’t have exams if say I move from England into Scotland. We are one, not like in the US. We however do not do diagnosing here under that professional title. I can see why the exams would be needed in that case, but I find the prospect of an MFT diagnosing a medical diagnosis truly scary especially if you’ve not been a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist in original training.
So informative ! Thank you! How long did it take you from the time you graduated with your Masters to your full licensure ?? Thanks ♥️
Thank you!! I should have mentioned that more explicitly in the video. I'll pin your comment. It took me 2 years!
@@StephAnya you’ve probably mentioned it before !!! Thank you ♥️
@@StephAnya I’m in school now to be a LMFT. How many classes did you take per semester?
Go Girl! I am In N.C.! Your video was perfect for me as a senior citizen... I have an LCMFT-A therapist and used google to find the meaning of an associate. I was embarrassed to ask the therapist... Her youthfulness is an asset for me as I believe generational differences are so important to experience. Though you have fewer hours, you like she, can help elder adults improve skills interacting with younger professionals. Aging has never frightened me; however, changes in society are difficult to master when one is more of a spectator, than participant.
Congratulations on becoming fully licensed!!!
Congratulations! It's beautiful to someone achieve something they have been so hard for! It's the Licensed glow for me!😍😍🔥🔥🙌🙌💃💃💅💅
Oooo I love the sound of that. Thank you!!
I am in my 3rd course at North Central University and your videos have helped me so much ❤️. You have made me so excited about going through this journey. You are amazing
Aww so happy to hear that!
Congrats to you from one GA LMFT who’s also fresh to being fully licensed! I just discovered your channel today and absolutely love your videos!!! 🤩
Congratulations! How exciting! I’ve loved watching your journey. It’s so inspirational for my own
Thank you so much! You can do it!
Congratulations! I have one year of grad school down, one year to go and plenty of hours to achieve. You are such an inspiration!
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations！I just got to know today that I pass my MFT national exam! Thanks for your videos!
Ah!!! Congrats to you!!
@@StephAnya Thank you, Stephanie!
Congratulations!🎉🎈🎊🍾
Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳. I start my masters mft journey now and I can wait. I am extremely happy for you.🎉🎉
Thank you!! And congrats to you too!!
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Darla ♥️
CONGRATS 🎉 Im in my undergrad for my psychology major, I have a long way to go! Definitely going to enjoy the journey, thanks for inspiring me 😊
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
CONGRATULATIONS! That's so amazing! Can't wait to watch your video!
Thanks so much!! Hope you like it!
Congratulations! 👏 I remember when you first started this channel time flew!
Awesome!!! Congratulations!!! All your hard work has paid off❤️❤️
Thanks, Skylar!! ♥️
I loveeee your videos! I show them in my lectures as a professor. My grad students loveee you!!❤️❤️
What an honor. Thank you!!
Congratulations 🍾🎉 to you. No more supervision! Definitely inspiring. Let me get started on these 3000 hours 😂😭😭😭
I too am slowly chipping away at these 3,000 hours 😬
Thank you! You got this!
Yay!!! I’m so excited. I’m in my undergrad for Psychology to be a LMFT and I’m so excited! I love your channel. Congrats!
Yay! Thank you! Let me know any videos that would be helpful for you in this phase of your journey.
I googled what is a licensed associate marriage and family therapist and this video popped up on google 👏🏾👏🏾 so cool. My state calls us a licensed intern. Same difference. Licensed associate is smoother than the word intern. Some are uneasy about this.
Oh wow, congratulations! I am so happy for you. Your videos are so great, you have open my eyes on what marriage and family therapy is. I am now looking into pursuing a masters in MFT.
Congratulations!! 💕 I was wondering if you can do a video on finding your style as a therapist? In grad school, I always heard professors telling us that we should have a specific model that you like to use and know your style by the time you graduate. I just graduated back in May and working but I still have no idea what model I'm more attuned with and what my therapeutic style is, and I feel that it causes me to get stuck with clients at times.
This is a great video topic and I think I made and outline for it some time ago. I’ll get that filmed for you. Thank you!
@@StephAnya thank you so much! I'm so glad I found your channel!
Congratulations 🎉🎊🎉🎊
Congratulations on your achievements!! 👏🏽🔥🔥✊🏽We love to see it💃🏽💃🏽
Thank you!!
Wonderful explanation. I am an intern in NJ. This information was clear and organized. Very helpful! It is very similar to Georgia. Congratulations!🎊
Thank you!!
Congratulations StephAnya!!! So happy for you and this channel! ❤️
Thank you!!!
Congratulations!!! I have follow you because your content is so informative. I am a military spouse and getting my Masters in MFT. I always have questions about GA since that’s where I will obtain my hours (and it’s home) and I come to you FIRST!!! Congratulations and I hope to connect with you in the future!
Thank you, Summer! And if I’m missing something you need, let me know so that I can make a video about it!
Congrats on becoming fully licensed!!! We need more therapist that we can identify with.
ouch the comments so shady..."so basically you're (just?) an intern
Thank you!!
Haha if I didn't know how much it varies across the states, my feelings would be hurt 😂. In some places, the terms really are interchangeable.
Congratulations! All the hard work has paid off!
Thank you, Angela! ♥️
Congratulations!!! I just started my MFT program :) 5th week & loving it here
Thank you!! So glad that you’re loving your journey so far!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 🎊🎉🎈🍾 You’re my inspiration!! Anya, LMFT!
Aww thanks so much ♥️
@@StephAnya you bet!
Congratulations 🎉
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS! I'm delighted for you but not surprised at all! Here proving to all of us that taking a chance on yourself and meeting your vision halfway with hard work really does pay off! I hope you reward yourself with a cheese and wine party...emphasis on the cheese xx
Yessss!! Cheese for life!! Haha!! Thank youuuu
Congratulations! That’s exciting to be a LMFT. It’s interesting to learn about the differences between states in terms of the verbiage used to describe where a therapist is at post bachelors or masters. I currently have my masters in social work. Here in Arizona you are basically an intern in you practice while in your bachelors or masters program. Post grad your just a social worker with a masters degree and after you can earn more pay with your masters degree post taking the ASWB exam. Then if you want to earn more pay, after officially accumulating supervision hours from the 2-3 years towards being a licensed clinical social worker, then you can do private practice or become a superior. I am going to be starting a new job soon, could you make a video on how to prepare for a therapist job?.. thanks for sharing your video! :)
Congratulations on becoming fully Licensed
#LMFT🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😎
I'm so happy for you 🥺, this makes me so excited to start my journey
Thank you!! I'm excited for you too!!
Congratulations!!! I am in the process of picking out online grad school programs to apply for. I live in GA but the schools in GA aren't fully online and too far away. Can you make a video about the process of doing an online program that may not fill all the GA requirements and how it the process of fulfilling those extra hours to get licensed will be? Thanks!
Congratulations!!! I’m happy for you and I love your channel! I just started school today on my journey to being an LMFT & LPC. Side note: do you know the name of your nail color? I love it!
Thank you!! It’s a dip powder set that I have by Azure. The colors don’t have specific names unfortunately :(
Congratulations Stephanie!! ❤️
Would definitely love to see a video about the licensure paperwork!
Thank you!! Okay, I’ve got you!
Congratulations! So happy for you. Your channel has provided so much information. Keep the faith and know God is able.
Thank you! I’m so glad that you’re finding the videos informative.
Congratulations!!! California is different. I am a registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. So there’s no license, and while in school I was a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee.
Once registered, within your first year of being an Associate MFT, you have to take a Law and Ethics exam. Then when you accrue 3,000, you will take the LMFT exam 😅
There are HUGE differences state to state, and I hope that everyone pays close attention to their state board website.
Thank you! Oh wow! Yes, California is probably the most strenuous. Many schools will even have specialization for the California track because there are more credit hours required than the other states. I agree that it's very important to do your research!
Are those 3,000 hours a paid job? Or is it similar to the practicum from school that was unpaid?
Congratulations, girl!!!! So happy for you
Thank you, Elisha!!
Yay congratulations !!!! I’m an associate can’t wait to be licensed
It‘ll be here sooner than you think!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! So happy for you! Your channel is so informative and inspiring. Thank you for taking to time to share your journey with us.
Thank you!! ♥️
Congratulations Steph! You deserve this 🥳♥️🙌🏽
Aww thanks so much!
Big congrats! You've worked so hard!
Thank you!!
Congratulations!! Huge accomplishment!
Thank you, Cathy!
Congratulations! I am so happy for you!
Thank you so much, Aalayia!!
YAYYYYY! Congratulations, Steph 🥳 such a major accomplishment!
I just had to look up Arizona’s licensure options and they too have LAMFT and LMFT. Looking forward to watching your journey continue!
Thank you, Lauren! And thanks for checking that!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congrats!🎉
Thanks, Ivie!
Congratulations 🥳🥳 So happy for you!!!
Thank you so much!!
This makes sense, I wished Nevada looked the mft licensure process this way. In school we completed a practicum. Post masters we are required to complete a “state internship” and we used to be required test after we accumulate at least half of our hours (1,500) now we can test as soon as we are approved for our “state internship” we are required to accumulate 3,000 hours and pass our mft exam.
Congratulations, Steph!! You did it!! I started my MFT program this week at Touro, and licensure seems soooooo far off, haha.
Thank you! It will go faster than you think!
Thank you for the informative video and congratulations!! I am starting practicum right now; 2 years down 1 more to go!!
Thank you!! You’re so close!
Could you do a video about graduate schools which accept students from behavioural science backgrounds or any other backgrounds?
Love that you provide us with so much information ❤️❤️ Please keep making videos like these ❤️❤️
This is so confusing and overwhelming! Thank you so much! I was worried that after graduating, those 2 years/3,000 hours was basically an unpaid internship because you are not licensed yet. How exactly do you find that job/portion of your licensure journey? Like how would you search that in Google? I’m asking all of these questions for my wife who is currently in school online at touro university getting her masters in MFT. We wanted to move after she graduated to Seattle (we live in PA) and her start her 3,000 supervised hours there. We just needed to find out how to search for that job and if it’s paid! Also was wondering if it will be an issue getting an online degree from a school based in California then doing those 2 years in Seattle! Thank you!
Congratulations gorgeous 🥳🥳🥳
Aw thank you!! ♥️
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Thank you!!
Yes, please go into the paperwork. Thank you
Got it!
Congratulations Steph!! That is sooo exciting :) I was wondering how you juggled working and being an intern during grad school? I'm still in grad school currently and have some time before my internship but I'm already wondering how I will maintain an income and get my hours! Let me know if you discussed it in another video :) thank you!!
I do touch on this in “I Quit My Corporate Job to Work for Free,” but long story short it didn’t work out and I ultimately had to quit the job because it was too much for me. Some people do it though. We pretty much relied on my husband’s income at that time.
@@StephAnya thank you for sharing! 🙏🏾
Would love to see a video on how to complete licensure paperwork for GA. 🙂. I'm also a doctoral student at NCU in my internship.
Congratulation and welcome it's a journey ... Thank you for sharing
Thanks so much! ♥️
#1 Congratulations!!!!!!!!
#2 I'm excited to start my practicum also very nervous about this because I am unaware of what can happen
Again, Congratulations and thanks for the info
You’ve got this! It takes the pressure off if you remember that your main job is to listen and it’s not your responsibility to “fix” anyone or anything.
@@StephAnya thank you
Congratulations! So happy for you 💕 I love watching your videos!
I am currently in grad school in Texas so I still have a long way to go 😂
Thank you! It will go faster than you think!
Yay congratulations!! I start practicum soon (next week) super nervous.
Thank you!!! You’ve got this!
Congratulations!!! I am in my MFT program in CA and I will be starting practicum in the Spring. Can you please share a video on what to expect for practicum? I am nervous but also excited!
That’s a great video idea! Thank you!!
I practice from Nevada and we use the term mfti post degree can also start a private practice under supervision with cash pay clients. We also don't have to wait to take the exam too.
Thanks for sharing!
Congratulations
Congratulations!!
Thank you!!
You’re giving me hope I take my LCSW exam September 17🙏🏿🤦🏾♀️
You’ve got this! 🤗
@@StephAnya thank you❤️
Wow you could work with Cigna as an associate? I’m in ohio and Cigna only wants independent licenses. So here it’s LMFT for dependent license (associates) and then fully license is LIMFT.
Yes, but I should also note that my notes had to be billed to my supervisor. Wow! See the difference in titles is so interesting and confusing across the states!
@@StephAnya it is very confusing.
Very informative! How often did you meet with your supervisor?
Twice per week! One individual and one group.
10/10 video
This is awesome! I have a quick question, with you being fully licensed in Georgia.. is your full licensure also recognized in other states as well?
Thank you! No, you’re licensed on a state-by-state basis. If I want to apply my licensure in other states, I’d have to go through their application process.
Paperwork vlog please..... I just moved to GA from NYS and I am lost. I have a good internship place but worried that I may not get all my hours due to my full time job as a School Counselor.
Got it! I should have vlogged the process when I was going through it, but I’ll do a little recap!
hooray! Congratulations :)
Thanks, Amanda!!
Im in Atlanta as well and I'm recently Associate Licensed. Please share the paperwork process that you went through
Congratulations!!! Got it!
Congratulations!! I just found your page and I'm going through them one after another. I love the way you are and you are unbiased but not afraid to be yourself! I wish you continued luck
I wanted to know can you start your own practice as licensed associate therapist?
Did you have to fill out the entire application again when you applied for full licensure?
What did you use to study for the national exam?
Steph has a video(s?) about what she used.
It’s also in the description box. AATBS!
@@StephAnya thoughts on TDC?
I didn’t use it, so I don’t really have any thoughts unfortunately. There are some people in the comments on my video about the exam that talk about it though I believe.
Oops, I forgot my question. So I saw in another post that it took you two years. Did you work 40 hours weekly with minimal time off?
I saw about 23 clients per week. If you can see at least 20 per week, you can even take some vacations and still get your 2,000 hours in 2 years.
👍🏾❤
Congratulations
We don’t have the licensing system in the Uk as you do over there. Seems a money making scheme.
Thank you!!
How does the process differ there?
@@StephAnya we register at the end of the four year course once all requirements are completed. At the end of year one it’s a certificate, year 2 a postgraduate certificate or diploma. Years 3 and 4 are masters level. There is a viva in the final year of the Masters. Once passed, it’s straight to registration using either systemic psychotherapist, family therapist or couples and family therapist title. The UK doesn’t have exams if say I move from England into Scotland. We are one, not like in the US. We however do not do diagnosing here under that professional title. I can see why the exams would be needed in that case, but I find the prospect of an MFT diagnosing a medical diagnosis truly scary especially if you’ve not been a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist in original training.
Bureaucratic hoops.
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!
Thank you!!