You must present evidence satisfactory to the State Board for Psychology, of two years of full-time supervised experience (defined as 1750 clock hours per year) or the part-time equivalent, consistent with the scope of practice in psychology in Section 7601-A of the State Education Law.
No more than one year of full-time supervised experience or its equivalent, consisting of 1,750 clock hours completed as part of the internship required for the doctoral degree, may be submitted to meet the experience requirement. The remaining experience must be completed after receipt of the qualifying doctoral degree.
Your experience must consist of a planned programmed sequence of supervised employment or engagement in appropriate psychology activities performed in accordance with the definition of the practice of psychology provided above in Education Law §7601-A, and satisfactory in quality, breadth, scope and nature.
One year of the following types of experience may be accepted provided that it integrates psychological knowledge and application:
- A university approved doctoral level practicum, internship, field experience or applied research as long as the research experience is not a part of your dissertation or thesis requirement;
- Teaching psychology, as a university or college faculty member may be accepted provided it meets all the requirements for supervised experience.
Experience that is completed in New York must be in an authorized setting, as defined in the Commissioner's Regulations:
- The setting must provide services defined in the practice of psychology, as set forth in Section 7601-A of the NYS Education Law. This may include, but is not limited to:
- a professional corporation, registered limited liability partnership, or professional service limited liability company authorized to provide services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
- a sole proprietorship owned by a licensee who provides services that are within the scope of his or her profession and services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
- a professional partnership owned by licensees who provide services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
- a program or service operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the Department of Mental Hygiene, the Office of Children and Family Services, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, the state Office for the Aging and the Department of Health or a local governmental unit as that term is defined in section 41.03 of the Mental Hygiene Law or a social services district as defined in section 61 of the Social Services Law;
- an entity holding a waiver issued by the Department pursuant to section 6503- a or 6503-b of the Education Law to provide services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
- a program or facility authorized under federal law to provide services that are within the scope of practice of psychology; or
- an entity authorized under New York law or the laws of the jurisdiction in which the entity is located to provide services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
- provide psychological services as defined in Section 7601-A of NYS Education Law;
- provide supervision to you by a qualified psychologist responsible for the design, coordination, integrity and quality of your experience;
- provide a title for you that conforms to the requirements in Section 7605 of NYS Education Law that clearly designates your training status such as, "psychological intern or psychological trainee," or as "psychologist" if you hold a limited permit;
- provide a title that meets the conditions of Section 17-A of Chapter 676 of the Laws of 2002 when you provide services in a program authorized under that section, which does not include the word "psychology, psychological, or psychologist", and
- accept responsibility for your services while securing licensure-qualifying experience.
Acceptable experience must consist of a continuous experience. Experience in academic settings must consist of a continuous within a period of not less than one semester and, in the case of teaching experience, must consist of not less than six credit hours per semester.
Acceptable full-time experience gained prior to January 1, 1998 may consist of no more than 35 hours a week. For experience gained on or after January 1, 1998, full-time experience may consist of 35 to 45 hours a week.
Full-time experience must consist of at least 35 hours per week, and not more than 45 hours per week.
Acceptable part-time experience must consist of at least 16 hours, but no more than 34 hours a week and must be gained in a minimum of two days a week.
Supervision must be provided by a psychologist licensed in the jurisdiction where the supervised experience occurs. The supervisor must be the owner of, employed by, or be a consultant to the entity in which the experience occurs. In all settings in New York State, including exempt settings, as defined in section 7605(1) of the Education Law, the supervisor must be licensed and registered to practice psychology under Article 153 of the Education Law or have qualifications satisfactory to the department, based on a review of factors which include but are not limited to: educational attainment of the supervisor and position held by the supervisor.
For experience to be acceptable, the following requirements must be met:
- For every full-time experience, supervision must occur weekly and must include at least one hour per week of individual, face-to-face supervision pertaining to services you provided and one additional hour of supervision which must be either face-to-face supervision, group supervision, seminars or workshops, or apprenticeship activities.
- For every part-time experience you must have two hours of supervision within every two-week period, one hour of which must be face-to-face supervision; and one hour that must be either face-to-face supervision, group supervision, seminars or workshops, or apprenticeship activities .
- Face-to-face supervision as used in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this subparagraph may utilize technology acceptable to the Department, including secure video-conferencing to protect confidentiality.