154D.4 - EXEMPTIONS.
154D.4 EXEMPTIONS.
1. This chapter and chapter 147 do not prevent qualified members
of other professions, including but not limited to nurses,
psychologists, social workers, physicians, physician assistants,
attorneys at law, or members of the clergy, from providing or
advertising that they provide services of a marital and family
therapy or mental health counseling nature consistent with the
accepted standards of their respective professions, but these persons
shall not use a title or description denoting that they are licensed
marital and family therapists or licensed mental health counselors.
2. The licensure requirements of this chapter and chapter 147 do
not apply to the following:
a. Students whose activities are conducted within a course of
professional education in marital and family therapy or mental health
counseling.
b. A person who practices marital and family therapy or
mental health counseling under the supervision of a person licensed
under this chapter as part of a clinical experience as described in
section 154D.2, subsection 2.
c. The provision of children, family, or mental health
services through the department of human services or juvenile court,
or agencies contracting with the department of human services or
juvenile court, by persons who do not represent themselves to be
either a marital and family therapist or a mental health counselor.
Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 229, §9; 98 Acts, ch 1050, §3, 5; 2008 Acts, ch 1088,
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