LAC 46:LX.4501. Exemptions

A. No person shall be required to obtain a license as a licensed marriage and family therapist or a provisional license as a provisional licensed marriage and family therapist. As stated in R.S. 37:1122(A), no person shall use the title "licensed marriage and family therapist" or “provisional licensed marriage and family therapist”. B. Nothing in this Chapter shall prevent qualified members of other professional groups as defined by the board upon recommendation of the advisory committee including but not limited to clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, physicians, licensed professional counselors, or members of the clergy, including Christian science practitioners, from doing or advertising that they perform work of a marriage and family therapy nature consistent with the accepted standards of their respective professions. However, no such person shall use the title "licensed marriage and family therapist" or “provisional licensed marriage and family therapist”. (R.S. 37:1121).