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The Notice to Clients every Board licensee must give, in the statute’s words, with your details filled in.
Since 1 July 2025 the notice must carry your full name as filed with the Board, your license or registration number, its type and its expiration date, in at least 12-point type, and delivery must be documented. Pick your license, type the four facts, print it.
Your details →Your details
Four facts. The rest of the wording is the statute’s.
The name is your name exactly as it appears in the Board’s records; the number is the license or registration number; the expiration date is the one on the license. Associates pick their registration type. Educational psychologists have no associate registration under this section.
The rule
One section per license, three subdivisions each.
“NOTICE TO CLIENTS — The Board of Behavioral Sciences receives and responds to complaints regarding services provided within the scope of practice of [marriage and family therapists / clinical social workers / professional clinical counselors / licensed educational psychologists]. You may contact the board online at www.bbs.ca.gov, or by calling (916) 574-7830.” B&P §4980.32, §4996.75, §4999.71, §4989.17.
The licensee’s or registrant’s full name as filed with the Board, the license or registration number, the type of license or registration, and its expiration date.
“Delivery of the notice required by this section to the client shall be documented.” The method is yours; the record is not optional.
Then what
The notice is one line on a longer list.
Everything before the first client
Opening a private practice in California: the checklist
Sixteen sourced items, from the entity choice to the seven-year records rule.
What else has to be on the wall and in the ads
The BBS advertising rule, effective April 2026
License type and number in every advertisement, and the trainee and associate disclosures.
The fee, disclosed before treatment
The fee disclosure statement generator
The §4982(n) sentence, your policies, and CMS’s estimate notice, printed.
If you are an associate or trainee
The pre-licensed client disclosure generator
Unlicensed status, employer and supervisor in the statute’s terms, with this Notice beneath it.
Where every figure came from
Sources.
The statute
The notice text is reproduced from the Board’s compilation; nothing typed here leaves the browser. Whether a given arrangement is “psychotherapy services” under the section is not something this page decides.
