New York State Board for Mental Health Practitioners

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The New York State Board for Mental Health Practitioners is a New York State Education Department board responsible for overseeing the licensing and regulation of mental health practitioners in the state.[1] Four professions are licensed:

  • Mental health counselor[2]
  • Marriage and family therapist[3]
  • Creative arts therapist[4]
  • Psychoanalyst[5]

New York is not one of the approximately three-quarters of the states in the Counseling Compact.

History

The board was created by the Mental Health Practitioners Act in 2002.[6][7]

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