State directory
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01 · MD
Maryland regulates the five covered practice lanes through profession-specific boards and credentials. This guide separates supervised and independent credentials, then adds the entity, workforce, privacy, payer, facility, telehealth, and locality checks needed for a practice launch.
02 · NY
New York regulates the five guide professions through the State Education Department, with material credential, acceptable-setting, diagnostic-privilege, professional-entity, telepractice, program-licensing, privacy, and locality distinctions.
03 · NJ
New Jersey regulates counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychologists, and behavior analysts through Division of Consumer Affairs boards and committees, with important associate-license, compact, entity, privacy, program, and Medicaid managed-care distinctions.
04 · PA
Pennsylvania regulates counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and psychologists through Department of State boards, while behavior-analysis work is governed by a narrower Behavior Specialist license and setting, payer, and program requirements rather than a general behavior-analyst license.
05 · DE
Delaware regulates counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and psychologists through Division of Professional Regulation boards, but does not issue a general behavior-analyst license; school, Medicaid, autism, telehealth, compact, entity, privacy, employment, and program rules remain material.
06 · NC
North Carolina uses separate profession boards and credential ladders, with material distinctions among supervised, independent, and supervisor credentials. Interstate authority, professional entities, facility status, and Medicaid routing require separate checks.
07 · SC
South Carolina regulates counselors and marriage and family therapists through one LLR board but retains distinct credentials, while social work and psychology use separate boards. Out-of-state behavioral telehealth registration, compact readiness, local business licensing, and service-model facility rules are central operational branches.
08 · TX
Texas centralizes counselor, marriage and family therapy, social work, and psychology administration in BHEC while retaining separate member boards and rules. Behavior analysts are regulated outside BHEC by TDLR, and telehealth, entities, privacy, breach reporting, facilities, and monthly Medicaid policy require independent analysis.
09 · AZ
Arizona licenses the five covered practice tracks through two health-profession boards and adds material rules for supervised private practice, out-of-state telehealth, compact privileges, records, business structure, and licensed behavioral-health facilities.
10 · CO
Colorado regulates counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and psychologists through separate DORA boards while transitioning behavior analysis to practitioner licensure in 2028 and adding new telehealth, artificial-intelligence, facility, candidate, and payer requirements.
11 · CA
California separates professional clinical counseling, marriage and family therapy, clinical social work, psychology, and qualified autism-service pathways, with profession-specific associate rules, telehealth authority, professional-corporation statutes, privacy, employment, payer, and facility requirements.
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