Episode 616: Licensure Compacts & Portability Update

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Evan Dumas, your co-hosts of Group Practice Tech.

In our latest episode, we have exciting updates for cross-jursidictional and multi-jurisdictional practice.

We discuss:

• The Counseling Compact, and the states in which it is live
• The ETA for the Social Work Licensure Compact going live
• Access MFT’s licensure portability effort
• Portability-friendly laws and how they differ from rights for temporary practice
• PSYPACT updates
• Physical location restrictions and requirements for providers under compacts
• Details of our upcoming CE training: Legal-Ethical Cross-Jurisdictional Telemental Health in 2026: Interstate, International, and Complex Practice Considerations

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 PCT Resources:

• New on-demand CE training: Legal-Ethical Cross-Jurisdictional Telemental Health in 2026: Interstate, International, and Complex Practice Considerations
  Presented by Eric Ström, JD, PhD, LMHC and Liath DaltonA 3-hour legal-ethical CE training for clinicians navigating the realities of modern telemental health practice, where clients travel, relocate, attend college out of state, split time between households, or receive care while physically located somewhere other than the clinician’s primary licensing jurisdiction.

  This updated training moves beyond a basic “am I allowed to practice there?” analysis into advanced practical application. Participants examine practice-authority pathways, temporary practice allowances, PSYPACT, the Counseling Compact, the Social Work Licensure Compact, MFT portability developments, clinician-location versus client-location issues, international practice considerations, payer and malpractice concerns, emergency planning, confidentiality and mandatory reporting conflicts, minor consent and parent/guardian access issues, and documentation of due diligence.

  Participants also receive practical worksheets to support jurisdictional verification, international due diligence, and mapping applicable laws, risks, and practice implications — helping clinicians move from identifying a possible permission pathway to evaluating the conditions, conflicts, capacity, documentation, and risk-management steps needed to make a grounded practice decision.

  Recommended for any clinician providing teletherapy, as well as practice owners, supervisors, clinical directors, compliance leads, and other practice leadership responsible for supporting cross-jurisdictional care decisions. This training can also be assigned to team members through PCT’s free team training management system (Group Practice Care basic.)

  As one participant shared: “Thank you for an absolutely excellent presentation! The presentation is a home run, and I will recommend it to my colleagues… I have a somewhat unique perspective on teletherapy and licensure mobility from working on these issues at the state, national, and international regulatory levels. The information that you provided is clear, direct, easy to follow, and accurate.”

• PCT's free (!) Teletherapy Practice Rules by State Tool
  Whenever teletherapy sessions occur when the client -- or therapist -- are physically located outside the state of the clinician's licensure at the time of session, cross-jurisdictional practice is occurring. It is necessary to answer the question of whether it is permissible for you to work with that client in that state, regardless of whether the presence in another jurisdiction is temporary or not.In addition to the fundamental question of whether practice is permitted, and the particulars of how it is permitted, it is important to identify rules of practice, and training requirements, in order to be equipped with the information you need to follow for navigating legal-ethical cross-jurisdictional practice.This tool is a supportive resource to help you identify that information, link you to the authoritative source, and document your performance of due diligence when conducting cross-jurisdictional practice within the United States.
• PCT’s Clinical Staff Teletherapy Training
• PCT’s Teletherapy Director and Supervisor Training for Group Practices
• PCT’s Teletherapy Manuals and Forms for Group Practices
• HIPAA Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning service for mental health practices — care for your practice using our supportive, shame-free risk analysis and mitigation planning service. You’ll have your Risk Analysis done within 2 hours, performed by a PCT consultant, using a tool built specifically for mental health practice, and a mitigation checklist to help you reduce your risks.
• If you’re navigating filing a breach report and you haven’t completed a documented “thorough and accurate” HIPAA Security Risk Analysis that meets the foundational Security Rule requirements, this is something you want/need to do so it can be reflected in your breach report to the OCR (HIPAA regulators)
• PCT’s Comprehensive HIPAA Security Compliance Program (discounted) bundles:
  • For Group Practices
  • For Solo Practitioners
    • Comprehensive HIPAA Security Policies & Procedures
    • Forms & Logs for documenting implementation and maintenance of Policies & Procedures in practice
    • Device & Workspace Security Suites
    • Direct Support & Consultation from PCT team + therapist attorney Eric Ström, JD PhD LMHC (live & recorded + searchable library)
    • Includes the Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning service + tool
  • HIPAA Security & Privacy Ethics training

Resources:

• PSYPACT
• Counseling Compact
• Social Work Licensure Compact
• Access MFTs