Welcome to the Texas Mental Health Counselor Association
Mission
- Promote the practice of quality mental-health psychotherapy services
- Enhance education for mental-health practitioners
- Evolve a viable professional identity unique to mental-health clinicians
- Influence legislation policy to benefit mental-health practitioners consistent with our State and licensure ethics
Vision
- Increase public visibility of the mental health profession throughout Texas
- Organize and advocate practices and policies that positively impact mental-health professionals
Purpose
- Promote the profession of mental-health counseling in Texas
- Provide a system for the exchange of professional information and resources
- Provide programs and resources for professional development of mental-health clinicians
- Promote the mental-health profession in Texas through advocacy, research, and best practices
- Provide a liaison between other state, national, and international mental-health groups
- Provide the public information on the role and function of the mental-health clinician
- Promote the provision of quality training standards for mental-health clinicians
- Promote equitable licensure and certification for counselors nationwide
- Advocate for the mental-health profession in public policy, local and state government agencies, and legislation
