My current T is an LCPC (which i am guessing is the same thing?). I have been helped much more by her in 1 year than the 5 I spent with a PHD T previously. Most of it is personality I believe, and not neccesarily the training, because I knew my PHD T was smart and she never was unkind, and she was helpful in some ways...but really it is the personality of my current T that was able to let me open up much more.