Members of the Marriage and Family Therapy advisory committee reviewed a draft report drawn from a licensee survey that the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board issued to multiple professions.

David Fye told the committee that the MFT profession report is 77 pages and that the board has also issued similar surveys for other professions; combined reporting will follow once those responses are complete. He asked members to focus on two questions before the next meeting: (1) practice-related negative issues seen in the past two years and (2) negative issues involving supervision.

Committee members said the survey revealed limited usable data for some supervision questions because a “0” option was omitted and some respondents selected “prefer not to answer” or skipped items. Members discussed concerns that supervision is nonstandard across states and workplaces, and that some licensees may maintain a license primarily to provide supervision.

The group also heard broad interest among respondents in multistate licensing compacts. Fye described differences among existing compacts (psychology, counseling, social work) and noted each compact works differently — for example, some grant telehealth privileges tied to a home-state license while others issue separate multistate licenses. He said the advisory committee should watch national developments driven by professional associations and reported interest across license levels.

The advisory committee agreed to a follow-up plan: committee members will review the specified survey questions and open-ended responses before the next meeting so the committee can have more focused discussion in August.

The conversation covered workforce context: Fye said the board’s total licensee count has grown (from roughly 12,000 to about 16,000 over ten years), but the data do not show how many actively provide direct services.