License Renewal

     You must earn 40 documented hours of continuing professional education during each two-year (biennial) renewal period. If your initial license is issued for a period less that 2 full years, you must earn 30 documented hours of continuing professional education during your initial licensure period. It is extremely important that you inform the Board of any address or name change as soon as that change occurs. If the Board office is not able to contact you, your license may lapse and you will not be able to legally practice counseling in the state of North Carolina.

     Any person licensed who allows their license to lapse for failure to apply for renewal within 45 days after notice shall be subject to the late renewal fee. Failure to apply for renewal of a license within one year after the license's expiration date will require that a license be reissued only upon application as for an original license.

     Additionally, individual's who do not complete the required 40 hours of continuing education units within the two year period will be required to retake and pass the NCE again.

• New Revised Renewal Guidelines
• Biennial Renewal & Request for Continuing Education Activities Approval Form
• Ethics Attestation, Certification and Agreement Form