Not a Member Yet?  Join here! DCMHCA Members - Manage your Directory Listing    View your DCMHCA Directory Listing Edit your DCMHCA Directory Listing Renew your DCMHCA Membership Here   The Benefits of Membership in DCMHCA Bi-annual newsletter with information relevant to the profession and to your clinical practice. Reduced registration fees for professional growth and development meetings, luncheons, and workshops. Opportunities to obtain NBCC Continuing Education Units for certification and licensure. Networking with other mental health professionals in the District of Columbia. Legislative advocacy. Access to selected information and legislative updates from the American Mental Health Counselors Association. Free listing on the DCMHCA website referral directory, accessible by other clinicians as well as the general public. Subscription to the DCMHCA listserv. This electronic communication provides members with networking opportunities, job postings, announcements on professional development events, and a forum for members to consult with each other on professional issues. Practice Marketing Services including website design and hosting.  Insurance services - Health, Life, Disability, and Long Term Care including Medicare supplements Free listing in the national online Find A Counselor Directory offered through Provisions Consulting.    Types of Memberships There are two types of memberships in the Association. All forms of membership entitle a person to vote and hold office. 1)      Professional Member - $50 Applicants meet the standards for entry-level professional recognition as a counselor, in that a master's degree or higher has been obtained in counseling or a closely related field. In addition, an applicant's primary interests and work-related responsibilities are in the area of mental health counseling. 2)      Student/Retiree Member - $30 Any student at the college level having interests in the area of mental health counseling shall be eligible to become a student member of the Association for a period not to exceed three years.   How to Become a Member JOIN NOW!  Click here to fill out an application online. Please contact Tim Sargent, DCMHCA membership chair, with any membership questions.  If you have trouble accessing the online form, please email skovich@provisionsconsulting.com. To apply with unified dues for membership in both DCMHCA and AMHCA, click the following link for unified dues online application- AMHCA unified dues.   Join DCMHCA's Listserv Click here to send an email request to join DCMHCA's listserve. In the text (NOT the subject header) of the e-mail, please write the following: subscribe Name-of-the-list  Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name e.g.: subscribe DCMHCA   Mary A. Jones You should receive a confirmation email, from hermes.gwu.edu, shortly after sending this message.   Contacting Us District of Columbia Mental Health Counselors Association P.O. Box 77503 ** Washington, DC ** 20013 Email: info@dcmhca.org