Transfer Your Counseling License to Mississippi: Reciprocity & Endorsement (2026)

Mississippi has passed the Counseling Compact into law, and its board may describe the state as having joined, but as of 2026-10-29 it was not issuing or accepting privileges. That makes Mississippi a non-compact state in practice: no privilege lets you see a client located here, in person or by telehealth, and a Mississippi license cannot yet anchor privileges elsewhere. Plan on a Mississippi license by endorsement, and check the commission's announcements, because states have been switching on every few weeks.

Mississippi's independent tier is the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); the P-LPC is the provisional, supervised tier, and the LPC-S is a supervisor designation. Board Rule 4.7 (Licensure by Comity; Miss. Code 73-30-7 and 73-30-15) licenses a counselor holding an equivalent independent license with 5+ years of continuous licensed work experience and no substantiated complaints or discipline. The applicant also needs a CV, three references, a certified licensure file, fingerprints and the Mississippi Jurisprudence Exam, and the Board may reject for cause. This is endorsement, not full reciprocity. Rule 4.6 lets the Board enter reciprocity agreements, but none is published, so reciprocity_partners is empty. A second route, LPC by Universal Licensure (Rule 4.10; Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act, Miss. Code 73-50-2), requires Mississippi RESIDENCY and at least 1 year of licensure in good standing in the other state, per the Board's own LPC by Universal page as last captured by the Internet Archive on 2026-05-21 (it lists proof of Mississippi residency and a license held for at least one year, and summarizes the Act the same way). The live page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-29, and Rule 4.10 itself only cross-references Miss. Code 73-50-2, so confirm current practice with the Board. Mississippi has ENACTED the Counseling Compact but is not yet issuing or accepting privileges. compact_member and compact_status are assembler-provided. Re-verified 2026-10-29 against the Board's rules (effective 2023-01-01: Rule 2.1 fees, Rules 4.6, 4.7 and 4.10) and the Board FAQ, which says the Board 'does not presently have an agreement of reciprocity with any other state'. On 2026-10-29 msblpc.org showed only a 'website coming soon' placeholder with the Board's contact details, its comity and universal pages returned 404, and the lpc.ms.gov home page was also a placeholder. The Board's working pages are the legacy lpc.ms.gov/secure/ pages, so application_url now points to the FAQ's Licensure by Comity section.