Sec. 8. (a) For purposes of this section, “virtual supervision” means supervision of an applicant for a license as a clinical addiction counselor by a qualified supervisor through an electronic platform that provides for synchronous visual and audio interaction in real time, and which is compliant with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Virtual supervision does not include telephone calls, electronic mail, or text messages.

     (b) An applicant under section 2 of this chapter must have at least two (2) years of clinical addiction counseling experience that must include at least two hundred (200) hours under supervision, one hundred (100) hours of which must be under individual supervision and up to one hundred (100) hours of which may be under group supervision. The supervision required must be provided by a qualified supervisor, as determined by the board.

     (c) A doctoral internship may be applied toward the supervised work experience requirement.

     (d) Except as provided in subsection (e), the experience requirement may be met by work performed at or away from the premises of the qualified supervisor.

     (e) The work requirement may not be performed away from the qualified supervisor’s premises if:

(1) the work is the independent private practice of addiction therapy; and

(2) the work is not performed at a place that has the supervision of a qualified supervisor.

     (f) Up to one hundred percent (100%) of the supervised clinical addiction counseling experience hours required under subsection (b) may be accounted for through virtual supervision by a qualified supervisor described in subsection (b).

As added by P.L.122-2009, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.207-2021, SEC.29; P.L.83-2024, SEC.23.