New York · State research dossier
New York regulates the five guide professions through the State Education Department, with material credential, acceptable-setting, diagnostic-privilege, professional-entity, telepractice, program-licensing, privacy, and locality distinctions.
Scope before answers
Practice owners, operations leaders, supervisors, and clinicians evaluating work in New York.
Current and future authority
Future-effective, proposed, and conflicting sources are labeled instead of being blended into current requirements.
LMHC and LMFT licensure alone should not be described as the separate New York diagnostic privilege.
Current Article 167 and an NYSED FAQ do not align cleanly on scope; retain the conflict label.
Pending compact legislation does not authorize interstate counseling or psychology practice.
Regulator and credential map
Each dossier keeps credential, supervision, cross-border, entity, client, records, renewal, and discipline research tied to the correct authority.
LMHC · Mental Health Counselor Limited Permit · Diagnostic Privilege
New York requires authority to practice mental health counseling, uses a supervised limited-permit route, and separately regulates diagnosis and assessment-based treatment planning through the diagnostic privilege.
LMFT · Marriage and Family Therapist Limited Permit · Diagnostic Privilege
Marriage and family therapy is separately licensed, with its own education, supervised-experience, limited-permit, diagnostic-privilege, and telepractice analysis.
LMSW · LCSW · Limited Permit
New York separates master social work from independent clinical social work; clinical work by an LMSW depends on authorized supervision and an acceptable setting.
Psychologist · Limited Permit
New York psychologist licensure is doctoral-level, includes supervised experience and examination requirements, and uses a limited permit for qualifying supervised practice.
LBA · CBAA · Limited Permit
New York licenses behavior analysts and certifies assistants, restricts diagnosis and prescribing, and has a material conflict between current statutory text and older agency FAQ language.
Entity · workforce · privacy · payer · facility
New York launch analysis must connect professional-entity restrictions, client-location telepractice, security and breach duties, workforce and locality rules, payer requirements, and OMH program-licensing boundaries.
State launch checklist
Public worksheets
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Sequence authority, credential, entity, payer, facility, privacy, and locality checks before opening.
Track verification, renewal, continuing education, audits, inactive status, and reinstatement.
Document the client location, practitioner authority, registration or privilege, consent, emergency plan, and payer rule.
Review entity form, ownership, naming, registration, referrals, and fee-sharing boundaries.
Collect credential evidence and document role, supervision, setting, hours, reporting, and payer enrollment.
Map state privacy, HIPAA, retention, access, security, breach, closure, and continuity duties.
Determine whether a private office is also a regulated program or facility and confirm payer enrollment and billing routes.
Source inspector and freshness ledger
Open any record to inspect its authority type, identifier, effective date, verification date, next review, and direct official link.
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