Interstate Licensure Compacts: 2023 Update

Interstate Licensure Compacts: 2023 Update

by Eric Ström, JD, PhD, LMHC

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 from 11am - 12pm PT

Zoom link emailed upon registration

1 Ethics CEU

Workshop Description

This workshop helps Licensed Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists learn how the compact may affect their practice within the field. It also provides attendees with an understanding of how the compact may affect clinicians doing agency work, private practice, and group practice. Attendees are encouraged to email their questions ahead of time to admin@wsscsw.org however a Q&A will be made available after the completion of the presentation.

Workshop Learning Goals

• Describe the applicability of interstate licensure compacts;
• Identify recent changes to Washington state law relating to licensure compacts;
• Create effective strategies for providing telehealth services that cross jurisdictions.

Workshop Overview 

• Law & Ethics Sources
• Telehealth Jurisdiction
• Licensure Compact(s)
• Washington Legal Implementation
• Questions/Reflections

After this training, participants will be able to

• Describe the applicability of interstate licensure compacts;
• Identify recent changes to Washington state law relating to licensure compacts;
• Create effective strategies for providing telehealth services that cross jurisdictions.

About the presenter:

Eric Ström is an attorney and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, Washington. As an attorney, Eric provides legal counsel, consultation, and guidance to mental health professionals. Eric’s clinical practice is focused on providing counseling services to combat veterans and those in other high-stress professions.  Eric currently serves on the American Mental Health Counselors Association Ethics Committee, and is the ethics advisor for the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association.  Eric has taught a range of courses in counseling and professional ethics at a variety of graduate and undergraduate programs.

Eric earned a PhD in Counseling at Oregon State University, graduated cum laude from Wayne State University School of Law in Detroit Michigan, earned a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from the Northwest School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University Seattle, attended the Hague Academy of International Law in the Hague Netherlands, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from the University of Michigan.