Counseling License from Georgia to Nevada: Does It Transfer? (2026)
Last verified: 2026-09-27 · source: Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors ↗
A counseling license transfers from Georgia to Nevada by endorsement — there is no automatic reciprocity, but you do not start over. Apply to the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors, verify your Georgia license, and meet Nevada's endorsement requirements. No exam is retaken. Nevada's license by endorsement (NRS 641A.241) requires a corresponding valid, unrestricted CPC license from another state or DC, and the Board's reciprocity page asks for no NBCC score report. Nevada's own CPC exam is the NCMHCE. No Nevada jurisprudence exam is listed for reciprocity applicants..
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Licensure by endorsement
Nevada has enacted the Counseling Compact but was not issuing or accepting privileges as of 2026-09-27, so your Georgia license cannot reach it through the compact yet. The route is endorsement through the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors: your Georgia license is verified, your NCE or NCMHCE score is credited under Nevada's own exam rule, and Nevada applies any jurisprudence and background checks it requires. Check which Nevada tier corresponds to your Georgia license before you file, because the titles do not map one to one.
What changes, Georgia → Nevada
| Georgia (current) | Nevada (destination) | |
|---|---|---|
| Counseling Compact status | Counseling Compact member — compact privilege to practice | Counseling Compact enacted — not yet issuing |
| Application fee | $100 ($100 non-refundable LPC endorsement application fee; the 05/02/2023 paper form lists $110, which includes a $10 mail-in processing fee. The current online GOALS fee schedule (goals.sos.ga.gov) returned HTTP 403 and could not be checked. Fingerprint background check paid separately to the vendor; NBCC score-report fee separate. NOT the Counseling Compact privilege fee (Georgia charges $100 + $30 commission admin fee = $130 for a privilege; no jurisprudence exam).) | $75 (CPC License by Reciprocity application fee per the Board's page; + $30 registration fee at license issuance; + $39 fingerprint fee (money order to Department of Public Safety); NPDB self-query about $4; renewal $450) |
| Processing time | ~5 weeks (the endorsement application form says to allow up to 25 business days (about 5 weeks) to process a complete application. The Board may also take up the file at a meeting, and an application must be complete 15 days before a meeting to be placed on its agenda. Incomplete applications are withdrawn after 60 days.) | the Board page says the background check takes 8 weeks; NRS 641A.241 requires issuance within 45 days of receiving all required information unless denied for good cause; no end-to-end range stated |
| Licensing authority | Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage & Family Therapists (Secretary of State), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) | Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors |
The destination column is what you must satisfy — Nevada sets the rules for this move.
Step by step
- Confirm Nevada's current requirements on the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors website (linked below) — rules change.
- Submit the endorsement application to the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors (application linked below).
- Arrange license verification from your current state.
- Hold a corresponding valid and unrestricted clinical professional counselor license in another state, territory or DC.
- Have no discipline or investigation by any licensing authority and no civil or criminal malpractice liability.
- Submit a fingerprint card with the $39 Department of Public Safety fee.
- Provide license verification from the current state licensing board and a copy of a state-issued ID.
- Obtain a National Practitioner Data Bank self-query.
- Pay the fees ($75 (CPC License by Reciprocity application fee per the Board's page; + $30 registration fee at license issuance; + $39 fingerprint fee (money order to Department of Public Safety); NPDB self-query about $4; renewal $450)) and allow the Board page says the background check takes 8 weeks; NRS 641A.241 requires issuance within 45 days of receiving all required information unless denied for good cause; no end-to-end range stated.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Nevada accept a Georgia counseling license?
A counseling license transfers from Georgia to Nevada by endorsement — there is no automatic reciprocity, but you do not start over. Apply to the Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors, verify your Georgia license, and meet Nevada's endorsement requirements. No exam is retaken. Nevada's license by endorsement (NRS 641A.241) requires a corresponding valid, unrestricted CPC license from another state or DC, and the Board's reciprocity page asks for no NBCC score report. Nevada's own CPC exam is the NCMHCE. No Nevada jurisprudence exam is listed for reciprocity applicants..
Do I retake the NCE or NCMHCE moving from Georgia to Nevada?
No exam is retaken. Nevada's license by endorsement (NRS 641A.241) requires a corresponding valid, unrestricted CPC license from another state or DC, and the Board's reciprocity page asks for no NBCC score report. Nevada's own CPC exam is the NCMHCE. No Nevada jurisprudence exam is listed for reciprocity applicants.
What does the move cost?
$75 (CPC License by Reciprocity application fee per the Board's page; + $30 registration fee at license issuance; + $39 fingerprint fee (money order to Department of Public Safety); NPDB self-query about $4; renewal $450)
How long will it take?
the Board page says the background check takes 8 weeks; NRS 641A.241 requires issuance within 45 days of receiving all required information unless denied for good cause; no end-to-end range stated.
Nevada joined the Counseling Compact. Can I use a privilege there?
Not yet. Nevada had enacted the compact but was not issuing or accepting privileges as of 2026-09-27, so counseling clients located in Nevada takes Nevada's own authorization, normally a Nevada license.
Sources
Primary sources only — official boards and compact commissions. Data last verified 2026-09-27.
- Nevada MFT & CPC Board: Licensure by Reciprocity ($75 application, $30 issuance, $39 fingerprint, 8-week background check) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Nevada MFT & CPC Board: CPC Testing (NCMHCE) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Nevada MFT & CPC Board: Counseling Compact Privilege to Practice ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Georgia SOS: How to Guide, Professional Counselor (Endorsement checklist; Internet Archive copy of 2026-04-24, live page returned 403) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Georgia Composite Board: Application for Licensure as a Professional Counselor by Endorsement, 05/02/2023 (Internet Archive copy of the official PDF; live file returned 403) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Georgia Composite Board: Policy Statements, VII Endorsement - Professional Counselors (Internet Archive copy of 2026-04-24) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 135-3-.04 Licensure by Endorsement (Georgia Rules and Regulations) ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
- Counseling Compact: state privilege fees and jurisprudence requirements ↗ (accessed 2026-09-27)
Reviewed by Billy Reiner, Editor · verified against primary sources 2026-09-27
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