Social Work Test Prep Academy

Getting licensed as a social worker in Florida

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, read .

Your first license

Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern (the credential a Florida MSW graduate holds while LCSW hours accrue)

RCSWI

Exam comes after the first credential

No exam to register. The Clinical exam comes after your hours.

Known fees

Fees the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling publishes for the RCSWI
RCSWI registration fee$150
Known total$150

What else it takes

Supervised hours
1,500 face-to-face hours, 100 supervision
ASWB exam level
None for this credential
Licensure compact
Not a member
Last checked
1

Next step

Hold a master's degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited school, with 24 semester hours or 32 quarter hours of clinically-focused coursework including at least one psychopathology course. Register as a Clinical Social Worker Intern (RCSWI) with the Board BEFORE beginning any post-master's supervised experience not completed during the graduate practicum.

The ladder

Florida has 3 rungs. 2 of them need an ASWB exam.

  1. supervisee

    RCSWI

    No ASWB exam

    Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern (the credential a Florida MSW graduate holds while LCSW hours accrue). Practice is supervised at this rung.

  2. advanced

    CMSW

    ASWB Advanced Generalist

    Certified Master Social Worker (administrative, non-clinical; a parallel branch, not a step toward LCSW).

  3. clinical

    LCSW

    ASWB Clinical

    Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Requirements change

Nothing on our law calendar changes Florida's exam requirement today. The change that does touch you is national: ASWB launched the 2026 exams on August 3, 2026 with three content areas and 122 items, and held fees at $230 Masters and $260 Clinical. ASWB's announcement.

Law calendar read . If Florida moves, this page moves with it.

Sources

We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.

SWTPA is not affiliated with any state board or with ASWB. Requirements change; the board's page is the source of record. This record is also available as JSON.

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