Current through Bulletin 2024-24, December 15, 2024
(1) Under Subsection
58-60-305(1)(d) the minimum 3,000 hours of supervised marriage and family therapy experience
required to obtain marriage and family therapist licensure shall include:
(a) 1,000 hours providing marriage and family
therapy as defined in Subsection
58-60-305(1)(e) with a minimum of 500 of those hours including two or more clients
participating; and
(b) 75 hours of
marriage and family therapy performed continually and uniformly under direct
personal supervision per Subsection
R156-60b-102(7).
(2) Marriage and family therapy
experience shall include:
(a) individual,
couple, family, and group therapy;
(b) crisis intervention;
(c) mediating relationships; and
(d) breaking dysfunction cycles.
(3) Supervised experience shall be
obtained:
(a) while the individual is a
licensed associate marriage and family therapist or as a doctoral program
student who is not paid as a 1 099 independent contractor;
(b) while the applicant is a W-2 employee
providing clinical mental health therapy at one of the following facilities:
(i) mental health agency;
(ii) in-patient or out-patient
hospital;
(iii) educational
institution;
(iv) non-profit
organization; or
(v) government
agency;
(c) in
accordance with the supervision experience requirements of Section
R156-60b-305b;
(d) under a supervisor who meets the
requirements of Section
R156-60b-305a; and
(e) in not less than 18
months.
(4) Training and
experience completed in group therapy sessions shall only be counted if the
applicant functioned as the primary therapist or co-therapist.
(5) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(b), an
individual may qualify for licensure when:
(a)
exempt under Subsection
58-1-307(1)(a);
(b) they completed training in another
jurisdiction while:
(i) licensed as the
equivalent of an AMFT; or
(ii)
engaged in the legal practice of marriage and family therapy while not required
to be licensed; and
(c)
provides satisfactory evidence to the Division and Board documenting training
is equivalent to and meets the experience requirements under this section and
Subsections
58-60-305(1)(d) and (e).
(5) The exemption in Subsection
58-1-307(1)(b) does not permit an applicant to engage in the required hours of marriage and
family therapy training and experience without first becoming licensed as an
AMFT.
