Education Law § 8400 · Article 163. Mental Health Practitioners
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§ 8400. Introduction. This article applies to the professions of mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, creative arts therapy, and psychoanalysis and provides for the licensing of such practitioners. The general provisions for all professions contained in article one hundred thirty of this title apply to this article.
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