Wyoming licenses Provisional Professional Counselors (PPC) and Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC). The board accepts the NCE, the NCMHCE or the CRC exam. Everything below comes from the board's own pages and rules, checked October 18, 2026. Fees and rules change, so confirm on the linked pages before you pay.
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Wyoming at a glance
License
Exam
What it takes
PPC (Provisional Professional Counselor)
NCE or NCMHCE (may test while provisional)
A counseling master's or doctorate and an approved supervision agreement with a DQCS. $219.
LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor)
NCE, NCMHCE or CRC
3,000 supervised post-degree hours over 18 to 36 months, 1,200 direct client contact, 100 hours of supervision. $419.
Wyoming, step by step
Wyoming Mental Health Professions Licensing Board
Degree (Rule 11-3): a master's or doctorate in counseling from a CACREP or CORE program, or a substantially similar program with at least 60 semester hours if you graduated after July 1, 2013 (48 before), a 100-hour practicum and a 600-hour internship.
Provisional license: apply with transcripts, fingerprints and a Supervision Agreement with your Designated Qualified Clinical Supervisor (DQCS); supervision starts only after the board approves it.
Hours (Rule 11-4):3,000 hours after the degree over no less than 18 and no more than 36 months, at least 1,200 of them direct client contact, with at least 100 hours of clinical supervision by a DQCS.
The exam (Chapter 11, Section 5): the NCE, the NCMHCE, the CRC exam, or another board-approved exam; provisional licensees get registration information with their approval. Three attempts, a fourth with a remediation plan.
Fees: provisional application $219; LPC by examination $419; each includes a $39 background check and $5 NPDB fee.
The steps that hold nearly everywhere: a counseling master's degree (usually 60 semester hours, often CACREP-accredited), your board's approval, an NBCC exam, about two years of supervised experience, then the full license. The NCE has 200 questions (160 scored) in 3 hours 45 minutes; the NCMHCE is 11 clinical case studies in the same time; either can be retaken after 30 days (NBCC/CCE candidate handbooks). The full walk-through: How to get your counseling license.