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What an associate or trainee tells every client before the first session, in the statute’s terms.
Five sections, five slightly different duties: an AMFT states unlicensed status, registration number, employer and the supervisor’s license type; an MFT trainee the same minus the number; an ASW, an APCC and a counselor trainee that they are unlicensed and under supervision. Registrants also owe the Notice to Clients. One statement, printed, with a delivery line.
Your status →Your status
Who you are, who employs you, who supervises you.
The name is your name as filed with the Board. The supervisor’s license type is one of the six the statute lists; the supervisor’s name is optional on the statement and required nowhere in these sections. Your registration number goes on the statement and on the Notice.
The rule
Five sections, and one bill that would add a line to all of them.
“Inform each client or patient prior to performing any mental health and related services that the person is an unlicensed registered associate marriage and family therapist, provide the person’s registration number and the name of the person’s employer, and indicate whether the person is under the supervision of a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical social worker, licensed professional clinical counselor, psychologist licensed pursuant to Chapter 6.6, licensed educational psychologist, or a licensed physician and surgeon certified in psychiatry.”
“A trainee shall, prior to performing any professional services, inform each client or patient that the trainee is an unlicensed marriage and family therapist trainee, provide the name of the trainee’s employer, and indicate whether the trainee is under the supervision of” one of the same six license types.
“All applicants and registrants shall inform each client or patient before performing any professional services that the applicant or registrant is unlicensed and is under the supervision of a licensed professional.”
“Inform each client, before performing any professional services, that the associate is unlicensed and under supervision.” A clinical counselor trainee “shall inform each client or patient, prior to performing any professional services, that he or she is unlicensed and under supervision.”
A licensee or registrant provides the Notice to Clients in at least 12-point type before initiating psychotherapy, and since 1 July 2025 it carries the full name as filed, the registration number and type, and the expiration date; delivery is documented. Trainees are not registrants, so the Notice sections do not name them.
Signed on 27 September 2026, it requires an MFT applicant or registrant (§4980.44), a social work applicant, registrant, intern or trainee (§4996.18), and a clinical counselor applicant, associate or trainee (§4999.46.1) to add the name of their employer or volunteer entity to the unlicensed-and-supervised disclosure, from 1 January 2027. The statement here carries the employer for every status.
Then what
The rest of the pre-licensed paperwork.
The other notice, for licensees too
The Notice to Clients generator
The Board’s complaint notice for every license and registration.
Your profile
The BBS advertising rule, effective April 2026
Five required elements for an associate or trainee, and how profiles fail.
The clocks
The associate clocks calculator
The registration’s six years, the hours window, the 104-week floor.
What AB 1598 changes
The 2026 bill tracker
Every section the chaptered bill amends, from 1 January 2027.
Where every figure came from
Sources.
The statutes, read from the Board’s compilation on 4 September 2026
- B&P §4980.44, associate notice to client (AMFT)
- B&P §4980.48, trainees: notice of unlicensed status
- B&P §4996.18, associate clinical social worker: subdivision (g)
- B&P §4999.46.1, responsibilities of associates (APCC)
- B&P §4999.36, clinical counselor trainee: subdivision (d)
- B&P §4980.32, §4996.75, §4999.71, the Notice to Clients
- Board of Behavioral Sciences, Statutes and Regulations (the compilation)
The 2026 change
Nothing typed leaves the browser; the document is built in a new window and printed. The statement is this site’s sentence carrying the statutory elements; the Notice text is the statute’s word for word.
