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License Renewal Notice

Your Posted License Shows Your Expiring Date:

If Your License Expires: June 30, 2025

Renewal Opens: April 1, 2025

Important: Don't wait until the last minute!

  • Renewal Fee: $75. (Additional fees apply for online payments)

Please click here for Steps to Renew Your License.

BOARD INFORMATION ON COVID-19

Missouri is currently vaccinating: https://covidvaccine.mo.gov/

Log into https://mopro.mo.gov/license/s/ to register for your MOPRO Account beginning January 14, 2025.

To register, you need to have an email on record with your board. If you have not received an email from us about MOPRO, please contact your board ( https://pr.mo.gov/boards.asp) to update your records. Many boards have online services that allow you to quickly and easily change your contact information. Please feel free to change your email address using this feature if it is available for your board.

If you need help registering for your MOPRO account, the Division of Professional Registration has two ways for you to have assistance!!


Email moprotech@pr.mo.gov and include your license number and your issue! Someone will respond to your email!

Reach out to our call center. Please call 833-373-2936 for help!


MOPRO will give you access to your information 24/7 including, but not limited to:

  • Applying for a license!
  • Renewing your license, whether on time or late!
  • Submitting payments online for your license, a duplicate license, or licensure verification!
  • Changing your name, address, or other contact information!
  • Changing corporate officers or owners of a licensed business!

Other MOPRO features that may be available, depending on your profession:

  • Tracking supervision hours!
  • Tracking continuing education hours!


If you have questions about your license, contact information, or other board - specific questions, please contact them for assistance! https://pr.mo.gov/boards.asp.

Background Check/Fingerprinting

Fingerprinting is handled by the state's fingerprint services vendor- IndentoGo. To be fingerprinted, you have to schedule a fingerprinting appointment on the Missouri Automated Criminal History Site (MACHS) website, www.machs.mo.gov or call 844-543-9712. Registration Number: 5409 must be provided to send your print results to the Board. The fingerprinting fee is $43.05 but is subject to change. Fingerprinting fees are paid to the state vendor; the Board does not receive or collect fingerprinting fees.

Veterans' Services and Benefits

Fresh Start Act: Pre-licensure Criminal History Determination

Under section 324.012.7, RSMo, individuals can request a pre-licensure determination of their criminal record under the Fresh Start Act.

Form

HB 1719 Suicide Prevention Training Requirement

HB 1719 was passed during the 2018 legislative session and signed into law. The bill included language that amended section 337.718.1 RSMo requiring certain health care professionals to complete at least two hours of training in suicide assessment, referral, treatment, and management training, as a condition of initial licensure. The provision went into effective August 28, 2018.

After January 1, 2019 an applicant for initial licensure as a License Professional Counselor must maintain documentation of complying with this provision. The aforementioned two (2) hours can be part of the graduate course of study or obtained through self-study.

Committee for Professional Counselors Survey

The Committee is interested in your opinion. If you are a currently licensed as a professional counselor or provisionally licensed as a professional counselor, please click on the link below and take a few moments to complete a brief survey. Your email address will not be recorded or stored. Thank you for your participation.

https://stateofmissouri.wufoo.com/forms/zyycga104jxcw4/

Sensitive Information

When corresponding with the Committee for Professional Counselors by e-mail and/or facsimile (fax), please refrain from including any sensitive personal identifying information such as Social Security Number or Date of Birth. The Committee does not need you to include sensitive personal information, in order to respond to your email or fax.

Providing Care to Military-Connected Missourians

The Missouri Department of Mental Health has created a web-based interactive map to connect community behavioral health services to service members, veterans and their families. If a licensee would like to be listed on the map, please complete the electronic enrollment form at the following link: https://stateofmissouri.wufoo.com/forms/w7p2a3/. Please address questions to DMH Veterans Services at DMH.Veteran@dmh.mo.gov.

SB 843 Fee Waiver Statement:

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MILITARY EXEMPTIONS

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