Denied!

So I rec'd a nice little letter in the mail today from the state licensing board letting me know they DENIED my new app for advanced licensure (every time you switch jobs you have to resubmit). Apparently the new job description does not sound clinical enough for them. Now my job IS clinical and in my mind should qualify...but they have been tightening up things down in Austin lately.

They gave me a few options: 1.) Discontinue supervision (this would mean 2.5 years of grad school and 1.5 years of post grad supervision down the drain). 2.) Submit further explanation to prove it is clinical in nature.

Then they went on to say if I submitted again and it was denied I could then appeal to the powers that be and and show up in Austin at some point to argue my case.

My supervisor at the job is very supportive and is letting me rework the job description (in all reality, i don't think it has been rewritten for awhile and certainly not by a clinical person who can add all the buzz words to better describe to the board what it really expected of me). They also said i can send in work product (minus confidential info) to prove it...I do have some of this...but since I am in the process of creating this new product (they had no forms specific to my work so I have been busy coming up with things) I don't have much...yet.

SO...Say a prayer...cross fingers...dance to the gods...look for a groundhog...whatever it takes! I am 25 weeks away from being done...now if only I can prove I am actually DOING counseling for some magical percentage of my hours...