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This directory lists over 8,000 Florida qualified supervisors, including LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMFTs with approval to supervise mental health counseling interns, across 65 counties. Search by ZIP code below. You can also browse the county list, below the tool.

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Qualified supervisors by county

These are the 10 counties with the most listings in the state file dated September 19, 2026.

CountySupervisorsLMHCLCSWLMFT
Miami-Dade997762132119
Broward852615113149
Palm Beach75957812672
Orange6405405366
Hillsborough5134285641
Pinellas4473655637
Duval3793164326
Seminole3272733131
Volusia2041511838
Brevard2031672911

Supervisors who hold two licenses are counted in each license column, so those columns add up to more than the total.

Are you one of the supervisors listed here? Add your rate and availability, or ask to be removed. Taking on a new intern? Get the free Before Your First Supervision Meeting checklist, with the rule behind every step.

Before you start: the mistake that costs people months

Your hours do not count until the board has your supervisor on file.

A qualified supervisor has to submit Form DH-MQA 5049, the Qualified Supervisor Statement, to the Board before supervision begins. Ask for a copy and confirm the Board’s approval before counting experience.

If submission or approval is missing or unclear, ask the Board which experience can be counted before relying on those hours. Resolve the paperwork while you and your supervisor can still check the records.

Two things to do before your first session:

  1. Look the person up yourself in the state’s license verification system. The Qualified Supervisor designation appears under Qualifications on their record. If nothing is listed there, they are not a qualified supervisor, whatever they told you.
  2. Ask them directly whether they have submitted the form for you specifically, and ask for a copy.

Resolve any uncertainty about approval or paperwork before beginning counted supervision.

What makes someone a qualified supervisor

It is a designation the board adds to an existing license, not a separate credential. To get it for mental health counselor interns, a clinician needs five years of clinical experience, of which two can come from a post-master’s clinical internship and three must be post-licensure. On top of that they need supervision training completed after they were licensed: a graduate course in supervision, an approved CE course in supervisory training, a post-graduate field instructor course in clinical social work, or designation as an Approved Clinical Supervisor through CCE or an Approved Supervisor through AAMFT.

That is a real bar. It is also the only bar. Nothing about the designation tells you whether someone is good at supervising, available, affordable, or a fit for how you want to practice. That part is on you to find out, which is what the questions further down are for.

You are probably ignoring about 1,800 qualified people

If you came out of a counseling program, you have been told to find an LMHC. So that is what you search for, and you look at maybe 6,900 people.

Clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists can also supervise mental health counselor interns. There are roughly 1,800 of them holding that designation in Florida, and most counseling interns never look at a single one, because it does not occur to them to search outside their own credential.

An LCSW or LMFT supervising a mental health counselor intern has to show graduate coursework in three of six counseling content areas: counseling theories, counseling practice, assessment, career counseling, substance abuse, or legal, ethical and professional standards. The board checks that before granting the designation, so anyone who appears in this list with the MHC designation has already cleared it.

Use the license filter above to see them. It is a much less crowded pool.

What the state actually requires

Two years of clinical experience as a registered intern means all of the following:

  • At least 1,500 hours of face-to-face psychotherapy with clients
  • At least 100 hours of supervision
  • At least one hour of supervision every two weeks
  • Accrued over no fewer than 100 weeks

That last one is the part people miss. The 100-week floor is a floor. You cannot compress it by seeing more clients or meeting your supervisor more often. Even at a heavy caseload, this is a two-year minimum, and for most people it runs closer to three.

Group supervision counts, but each hour of group has to alternate with an hour of individual supervision. You cannot do it all in a group.

One supervisor can carry up to 25 interns at once. Worth asking how many they currently have.

Once you have picked a supervisor

The Florida Hours Tracker is a free Google Sheet that logs your client hours and supervision sessions against the 1,500 hours, the 100 supervision hours and the 100 weeks the Board requires, and keeps your DH-MQA 5049 date in view. Free, and it works for all three professions.

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In person or by video

The general rule is that you and your supervisor can use electronic methods for supervisory sessions, but at least 50% of your required interactions have to be in person, and you have to meet in person at least once before you start using video at all.

There is a narrower provision allowing a supervisor to conduct all sessions electronically when they determine, through professional judgment, that doing so is not detrimental to your clients and is necessary to protect the health, safety or welfare of you or them. That is a conditional exception with a necessity test, not a general permission, and it is still in the rule after the July 6, 2026 update.

Practical translation: assume you need someone you can sit with, at least half the time, and confirm the current rule with the board before you plan around anything else. Ask any prospective supervisor how they handle this. Their answer tells you how carefully they track the rules generally.

Who cannot supervise you

Hours do not count if your supervisor is your current or former therapist, a parent, a current or former spouse, a sibling, your child, your current or former employee, someone you live with, or anyone you have or had a romantic, sexual, domestic or family relationship with. The Board clarified this list on July 6, 2026 (Rule 64B4-2.003). If a working relationship starts to blur into a therapeutic one, that is a problem for your hours, not just for the relationship.

What to ask before you commit

You will be with this person for two to three years and paying them for most of it. Twenty minutes of questions now is cheap.

  • Have you submitted the qualified supervisor form to the board for me?
  • What do you charge, and is that per hour or per session?
  • Individual, group, or a mix? How is the group hour paired with individual?
  • How many interns are you supervising right now?
  • How do you handle the in-person requirement?
  • What happens if I need to reschedule, or if you go on leave?
  • Will we have a written supervision contract?
  • What is your experience with the population I want to work with?
  • If I leave this job, does the supervision relationship continue?

That last one matters more than it sounds. If your supervisor is also your employer, leaving the job can mean losing the supervision, and the two decisions get tangled in a way that is hard to undo.

What it costs

Florida doesn’t set a rate for supervision, and prices vary a lot between supervisors. Ask each one for a written quote. If the rate is $100 an hour, 100 hours cost $10,000. Read what supervision usually costs for sample budgets and questions to ask.

Some employers provide supervision as part of the job, which is worth real money and should be counted when you compare offers. Some supervisors charge a flat monthly rate rather than hourly. Some bundle group supervision at a lower rate.

Supervision is not the only recurring cost while you are pre-licensed. Professional liability insurance is the one people most often leave out of the math. You carry your own, separate from anything your employer provides, and you need it from your first session.

We are collecting current Florida rates from interns and supervisors. If you pay for supervision, please add yours to the 2-minute anonymous survey. Results will be published here. If you are a qualified supervisor and want your rate and availability listed, get in touch.

Where this list comes from

The Florida Department of Health publishes its licensure file under Chapter 119, the public records law. Qualified supervisor status is recorded on the clinician’s own license record, so this is the state’s list, filtered to people whose designation covers mental health counselor interns and whose license is currently active. It includes LMHCs, LCSWs and LMFTs.

City and county come from the address each licensee filed with the board. Records identified as outside Florida are excluded, and counties are withheld when the location data conflicts too strongly to resolve safely. For solo practitioners that is often a home address, so street addresses are not shown here.

Rates and availability are not in the state file. Where supervisors have replied, their details appear in this directory; otherwise, availability is unknown.

Always verify a supervisor yourself before you begin. Look up their license number in MQA Search Services and confirm the designation is current.

Data downloaded from the state on 19 September 2026.

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