Mental Health Practice Act Sunset Signed into Law

 Posted: July 15, 2020

On Tuesday, the 2020 Mental Health Practice Act was signed into law! A copy of the signed act is available here. 

CPA is happy to share a number of our successes through this Sunset process:

- Maintained our Continuing Professional Development Program (for Psychologists) and were not required to move into the Continuing Competency Program utilized by some of the master’s level mental health practitioners.

- Advocated to cease new registrants into the Registered Psychotherapists database. Current Registered Psychotherapists will be allowed to continue practicing psychotherapy. However, they will have to change their name back to Unlicensed Psychotherapists and no new Unlicensed Psychotherapists will be allowed to enroll in the database and practice psychotherapy without a license or certification in Colorado.

- Added a professional background check requirement so that CPA can participate in PSYPACT (Psychological Interjurisdictional Compact) as is required.

- Clarified statutory language that licensees are not paying for referrals when the renumeration was for services provided including marketing, office space, administrative, consultative, etc.

- Clarified that licensees may (but are not required to) form professional service corporations (PSC/PLLC) and may create LLCs for their businesses.

This multiple year process required significant investment from many CPA members, our Capstone lobbyist team, our mental health partners, and many other stakeholders to move the bill across the finish line. We owe special thank you’s to our tremendous bill sponsors including Rep. Dafna Michaelson-Jenet, Rep. Lois Landgraf, Sen. Faith Winter, and Sen. Jack Tate and the amazing work of our lobbyist team at the Capstone Group including the phenomenal Jeannie Vanderburg who steered us successfully through this process. Also special thanks to the active work of the Sunset Task Force including Julie Jacobs, Rick Ginsberg, Angela Green, Erin Baurle, and Athena Baca-Chieza.

Stay tuned for information regarding an upcoming webinar to guide psychologists through the changes to the Mental Health Practice Act.
 

Laura Knudtson
Chair of Mental Health Sunset Task Force and Colorado APA Council Representative

PSYPACT is Live!

Posted: July 20, 2020

We are excited to announce that PSYPACT is now live and applications to practice under PSYPACT are officially OPEN! Read on to learn how you can start your application and what you can expect during the application process. PSYPACT participating states include Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania (effective 7/8/2020) and Virginia (effective 1/1/2021).

Classified Ad: Shared Office Space

Posted: July 16, 2020

SHARED OFFICE SPACE. Beautiful offices in Bergen Park (Evergreen) for mental health professionals. Office suite provides furniture, high-speed internet, printer, fax, waiting room, handicapped accessible, parking; all amenities. Instant office ready for psychologist. Building next to Elk Meadow, acres of trails and nature, and Buchanan Rec. Center. Twenty minutes from Denver. Contact Dr. Terry Levy: O- 303-674-4029x103, C- 303-868-0077, [email protected].

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Posted: May 1, 2020

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