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NH Rev Stat § 330-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:19 - Clinical Mental Health Counselors.

    330-A:19 Clinical Mental Health Counselors. –||The board shall issue a clinical mental health counselor license to any person who meets all of the following requirements or their equivalent:||I. Has a 60 credit master's or doctoral degree in clinical mental health counseling from a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited institution or its equivalent which has received regional accreditation from the Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges.||II. Has passed the clinical mental health counselor's proctored examination of the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc.||III. Has completed a minimum of 2 years of post-masters experience including completion of a minimum of 3,000 hours of post-masters, supervised clinical experience by a board approved licensed independent clinical social worker or licensed clinical mental health counselor supervisor, or any other supervisor based on reasonable and specific criteria established in rules adopted under RSA 330-A:10. A current master licensed alcohol and drug counselor (MLADC) license issued by the board of licensing for alcohol and other drug use professionals under RSA 330-C may be substituted for up to 1,500 hours of the required 3,000 hours of supervised clinical experience. Where substitution of the full 1,500 hours is denied by the board, the MLADC applicant shall be provided the rationale for the board's denial. The board shall not deny the substitution of hours solely based on the MLADC applicant's clinical supervisor holding an MLADC license.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2010, 244:14, eff. July 1, 2010. 2018, 364:7, eff. Sept. 30, 2018. 2019, 74:2, eff. Aug. 17, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:20 - Repealed by 2019, 74:7, eff. Aug. 17, 2019.

    330-A:20 Repealed by 2019, 74:7, eff. Aug. 17, 2019. –|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:21 - Marriage and Family Therapists.

    330-A:21 Marriage and Family Therapists. –||The board shall issue a marriage and family therapist license to any person who meets all of the following requirements or their equivalent:||I. Has a master's degree or a doctorate degree in marriage and family therapy from a program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education, or has a master's degree or a doctorate degree with a concentration in the field of marriage and family therapy from a regionally accredited institution, or has clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.||II. Has passed the national proctored examination of the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards.||III. Has completed a minimum of 2 years of post-master's experience in a mental health counseling setting, including completion of a minimum of 3,000 hours of supervised practice of marriage and family therapy under supervision approved by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy or the board, and has completed 200 hours of face-to-face supervision by a supervisor approved by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy or the board. Supervision standards shall be equivalent to an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy approved supervisor, or approved alternate supervision as defined by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Commission on Supervision. A current master licensed alcohol and drug counselor (MLADC) license issued by the board of licensing for alcohol and other drug use professionals under RSA 330-C may be substituted for up to 1,500 hours of the required 3,000 hours of supervised clinical experience. Where substitution of the full 1,500 hours is denied by the board, the MLADC applicant shall be provided the rationale for the board's denial. The board shall not deny the substitution of hours solely based on the MLADC applicant's clinical supervisor holding an MLADC license.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2010, 244:15, eff. July 1, 2010. 2019, 74:3, eff. Aug. 17, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:22 - Candidates for Mental Health Licensure.

    330-A:22 Candidates for Mental Health Licensure. –||I. [Repealed.]||II. The supervision of a candidate for mental health licensure by a person licensed under this chapter shall include the following:||(a) Regular meetings shall be held between the supervisor and the candidate at locations mutually convenient to both the supervisor and the candidate.||(b) The supervisor shall assume professional responsibility for the candidate in a written agreement on record with the board. The supervisor must assume both professional and legal responsibility in the agreement.||III. If the supervisor ceases to supervise and assume professional responsibility for the candidate, the licensing board shall be notified in writing.||IV. Each supervisor's agreement shall be approved by the licensing board before becoming effective, and shall remain in effect only as long as the supervisor accepts responsibility for the candidate.||V. No candidate shall engage in independent or private mental health practice or offer to render, or render services, except as provided in this section, or as otherwise licensed by the state of New Hampshire.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2010, 368:28, VI, eff. Dec. 31, 2010. 2019, 74:4, eff. Aug. 17, 2019; 207:2, eff. Sept. 10, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:23 - Unlawful Practice; Penalty.

    330-A:23 Unlawful Practice;  Penalty. –||I. Except as provided in RSA 330-A:34, it shall be unlawful for any person to be engaged in mental health practice unless that person is licensed by the board, working as a candidate under the direct supervision of a person licensed by the board, conditionally licensed by the board, or engaged in the practice of other mental health services as an alternative provider as defined in RSA 330-A:2, I. The license or the registration of such person shall be current and valid. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice as or to refer to oneself as a pastoral psychotherapist, a clinical social worker, a school social worker, a licensed social worker, a licensed social work associate, a clinical mental health counselor, or a marriage and family therapist, or use the word "psychotherapist," or any variation thereof, in such person's title unless that person is licensed by the board or working as a candidate under the direct supervision of a person licensed or conditionally licensed by the board. Psychiatrists licensed under RSA 329 and psychiatric nurse practitioners licensed under RSA 326-B:18 may refer to themselves as psychotherapists.||II. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who violates paragraph I or paragraph III of this section or who violates any of the other provisions of this chapter relating to pastoral psychotherapy, clinical social work, licensed social work, clinical mental health counseling, or marriage and family therapy, or, having had his or her license suspended or revoked, shall continue to represent himself or herself as a licensed pastoral psychotherapist, clinical social worker, school social worker, licensed social worker, licensed social work associate, clinical mental health counselor, or marriage and family therapist, or as a psychotherapist, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor if a natural person, and a felony if any other person, and each violation shall be deemed a separate offense.||III. Any person whose license under this chapter has been suspended or revoked by the board for disciplinary action under RSA 330-A:27 or sexual misconduct under RSA 330-A:36 shall not engage in mental health practice as defined in RSA 330-A:2, VI unless and until the suspension or revocation of the license has been lifted.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2005, 293:11. 2006, 76:19. 2012, 233:6, eff. July 1, 2013. 2021, 183:8, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:24 - Injunction.

    330-A:24 Injunction. –||The board may request the attorney general to commence an action to enjoin the operation of any person engaged in practicing unlicensed therapy in violation of this chapter. Said action shall be filed in the superior court.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:25 - Civil Claims.

    330-A:25 Civil Claims. –||Any person injured by the actions of a person engaged in the practice of unlicensed therapy in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter may bring a civil action to recover damages suffered by reason of the violations.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:26 - Applicants From Other States.

    330-A:26 Applicants From Other States. –||I. The board shall license any applicant who is licensed in any other state, provided the other state's licensure requirements are substantially equivalent to or higher than those of this state.||II. An applicant whose state licensure meets the requirements in paragraph I shall be allowed to practice in this state not more than 30 days after the application is received by the board, pending final approval or denial of the license for other reason by the board. The board shall adopt rules under RSA 330-A:10, I relative to procedures for expedited licensure for applicants from other states.||III. The board shall waive provisions of this chapter requiring supervised work experience and practical training and grant a license as a clinical social worker, clinical mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, or pastoral psychotherapist to any applicant who presents proof of active licensed practice, in good standing, in another jurisdiction of the United States for a period of 5 years or more.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998. 2017, 220:1, eff. Sept. 8, 2017. 2018, 364:8, eff. Sept. 30, 2018. 2019, 228:4, eff. Sept. 10, 2019. 2021, 197:82, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:26-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:26-a - Repealed by 2019, 234:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.

    330-A:26-a Repealed by 2019, 234:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2020. –|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:29 - Hearings.

    330-A:29 Hearings. –||I. Any complaint not dismissed or settled informally shall be heard by the board. Such hearing shall be an open public hearing. Any member of the board shall have the authority to preside at such a hearing and to issue oaths or affirmations to witnesses.||II. The board shall furnish the respondent and the complainant, if any, at least 15 days' written notice of the date, time, and place of a hearing, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. Such notice shall include an itemization of the issues to be heard, and, in the case of a disciplinary hearing, a statement as to whether the action has been initiated by a written complaint or upon the board's own motion, or both. If a written complaint is involved, the notice shall provide the complainant with a reasonable opportunity to intervene as a party.||III. The board may, before or after the commencement of an adjudicatory hearing, dispose of disciplinary or licensure allegations arising under this chapter by order of dismissal, settlement, default, consent order, or summary judgment order. In disciplinary hearings, the board may hold prehearing conferences which shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 91-A, but all final disciplinary actions, including those which occur without holding a public hearing, shall be publicly released at the time they are served upon the parties.||IV. The respondent shall be heard in his or her defense either in person or by counsel and may produce witnesses and testify in his or her behalf. A record of the hearing shall be taken and preserved. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time.||V. Every final disciplinary action and other adjudicatory decisions made final by the board shall be reduced to writing and served upon the parties. Such decisions shall not be public until they are served upon the parties.||VI. The board shall have no obligation or authority to appoint or provide an attorney to any person appearing at a board hearing or investigation.||VII. Final licensure and disciplinary actions of the board may be appealed to the supreme court under the procedures set forth in RSA 541. However, no sanction imposed by the board shall be stayed during appeal.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998. 2021, 197:83, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:30 - Temporary Suspension Where Imminent Threat.

    330-A:30 Temporary Suspension Where Imminent Threat. –||In cases involving imminent danger to life or health, the board may order suspension of a licensee pending hearing for a period of not more than 90 days. In such cases, the basis for the board's finding of imminent danger to life or health shall be reduced to writing and combined with a hearing notice which complies with RSA 330-A:29, II. A licensee may be allowed additional time to prepare for a hearing, but any additional time for preparation shall result in an extension of license suspension commensurate with the additional time extended.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:31 - Expirations, Renewals, Reinstatements, and Inactive Status.

    330-A:31 Expirations, Renewals, Reinstatements, and Inactive Status. –||I. Licenses shall be valid for a period of 2 years and shall become invalid on the expiration date unless renewed. It shall be the duty of the board to notify every person licensed by the board under this chapter of the date of expiration of the license and the amount of the fee that shall be required for its renewal for 2 years. Such notice shall be mailed at least 2 months in advance of the date of expiration of such license. Renewal shall be conditional upon filing a timely and complete renewal application and payment of the fee as set by the board.||II. If a license is not renewed it may be reinstated not later than 6 months after the date of license expiration upon payment of the fee and compliance with rules adopted by the board. A license may be placed on inactive status pursuant to rules adopted by the board.||III. Upon the request of a person licensed by the board who is a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard and is called to active duty, the board shall place such person's license on inactive status. The license may be reactivated, after notification to the board, within one year of the person's release from active status by payment of the renewal fee and with proof of completion of the most current continuing education requirement unless still within the renewal period.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2005, 151:4. 2010, 244:16. 2012, 269:3. 2015, 76:2, eff. Aug. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:32 - Privileged Communications.

    330-A:32 Privileged Communications. –||The confidential relations and communications between any person licensed under provisions of this chapter and such licensee's client are placed on the same basis as those provided by law between attorney and client, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require any such privileged communications to be disclosed, unless such disclosure is required by a court order or allowed by federal law pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) or 42 C.F.R. Part 2. Confidential relations and communications between a client and any person working under the supervision of a person licensed under this chapter which are necessary and customary for diagnosis and treatment are privileged to the same extent as though those relations or communications were with the supervising person licensed under this chapter, unless such disclosure is required by a court order. This section shall not apply to hearings conducted pursuant to RSA 135-C:27-54 or RSA 464-A.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998. 2019, 200:1, eff. Sept. 8, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:33 - Prior Certification.

    330-A:33 Prior Certification. –||Any psychologist, pastoral psychotherapist, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, or clinical mental health counselor who was certified on July 1, 1998, under the provisions of former RSA 330-A, shall be issued a license in the respective discipline by the board.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:34 - Persons Exempted.

    330-A:34 Persons Exempted. –||I. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit:||(a) The psychotherapy activities, services, or use of official title of a person in the employ of a federal, state, county, or municipal agency, other political subdivision, or duly chartered educational institution, insofar as such activities and services are a part of the duties of such person in that salaried position.||(b) The psychotherapy activities and services of a student, intern, or resident in a mental health discipline regulated by the board, who is pursuing a course of study approved by a regionally accredited degree-granting institution or at another training site approved as providing qualifying training and experience constituting a part of the supervised course of study.||(c) The counseling activities and services of rabbis, priests, ministers, Christian Science practitioners, clergy, or members of religious orders when their counseling activities are within the scope of the performance of their regular or specialized ministerial duties and are performed under the auspices or sponsorship of an established and legally recognized church or denomination.||(d) The psychotherapy activities and services of any other person providing mental health services as an employee of or consultant to an institution, facility, or nonprofit institution or agency which provides clinical mental health services and which provides clinical supervision of its staff and which assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.||(e) The psychotherapy activities and services of physicians licensed under RSA 329, advanced registered nurse practitioners licensed under RSA 326-B:18, psychologists licensed under RSA 329-B, and master licensed alcohol and drug counselors licensed under RSA 330-C:16.||II. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent or restrict the mental health practice activities of individuals who volunteer their services to non-profit charitable organizations and receive no remuneration for their services.|||Source. 1998, 234:1. 2005, 293:12, eff. July 1, 2005 at 12:01 a.m. 2019, 74:5, eff. Aug. 17, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:35 - Civil Liability; Duty to Warn.

    330-A:35 Civil Liability;  Duty to Warn. –||I. Any person licensed under this chapter has a duty to warn of, or to take reasonable precautions to provide protection from, a client's violent behavior when the client has communicated to such licensee a serious threat of physical violence against a clearly identified or reasonably identifiable victim or victims, or a serious threat of substantial damage to real property.||II. The duty may be discharged by, and no monetary liability or cause of action shall arise against, any person licensed under this chapter if the licensee makes reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim or victims, notifies the police department closest to the client's or potential victim's residence, or obtains civil commitment of the client to the state mental health system.||III. No monetary liability and no cause of action may arise concerning client privacy or confidentiality against any person licensed under this chapter for information disclosed to third parties in an effort to discharge a duty under paragraph II.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 330-A:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXX - Occupations and Professions|Title 330-A - Mental Health Practice|Section 330-A:36 - Sexual Misconduct Subject to Disciplinary Action.

    330-A:36 Sexual Misconduct Subject to Disciplinary Action. –||Sexual relations with a client or a former client shall be considered sexual misconduct and shall be subject to disciplinary action under RSA 330-A and the duty to inform established in RSA 330-A:37.|||Source. 1998, 234:1, eff. Oct. 31, 1998.|