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COUNSELING	COUNSELOR	FAMILY COUNSELOR	HYPNOTIST
MARRIAGE COUNSELOR	MENTAL HEALTH	PSYCHOLOGIST	PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOTHERAPY	SOCIAL WORKER	THERAPIST	THERAPY

State

Colorado Division of Registrations
Mental Health Licensing Section
1560 Broadway #1370
DENVER , CO 80202
(303)894-7766
Fax: (303)894-7747

Anyone who engages in "psychotherapy" as defined below falls under the Colorado Mental Health Licensing Act and should contact the Mental Health Licensing Section. Includes social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and psychologists.

PSYCHOTHERAPY: The treatment, diagnosis, testing, assessment, or counseling in a professional relationship to assist individuals or groups to alleviate mental disorders, understand unconscious or conscious motivation, resolve emotional, relationship, or attitudinal conflicts, or modify behaviors which interfere with effective emotional, social, or intellectual functioning.

Any unlicensed psychotherapist is required to record their name, current address, educational qualifications, disclosure statements, therapeutic orientation or methodology, or both, and years of experience in each specialty area with the Mental Health Grievance Board for inclusion in the State Database. The Database application fee is $160.00.

Link: http://www.dora.state.co.us/mental-health/index.htm

NOTE: See also DRUG/ALCOHOL COUNSELOR

NOTE: See also MARRIAGE THERAPIST

NOTE: See also SOCIAL WORKER

page last updated 3/23/10

The Colorado Revised Statutes are available on line at http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/colorado_revised_statutes.htm. You can locate a statute of interest by searching either on the citation given in the database (e.g., 18-5-307) or on a keyword or phrase.

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