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Board committee backs phased plan to ease licensure steps for therapists
Summary
The Board of Behavioral Sciences committee on July 31 approved forwarding a phased plan to ease licensure steps for LMFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs, including allowing associates to choose when to take the California law and ethics exam and aligning exam and experience credit to a seven‑year window.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences’ Policy and Advocacy Committee voted July 31 to advance a phased plan of changes intended to reduce barriers to clinical licensure for marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and professional clinical counselors. Staff told the committee the package is intended to be implemented in phases. Phase 1 — the item considered July 31 — contains regulatory and statutory clarifications that staff said can be implemented with relatively limited systems work and which they plan to pursue as a legislative proposal in the January 2026 cycle. Roseanne Helms, legislative manager, described the package and the policy goals: to reduce unnecessary…
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