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What this is
Therapy Bulletin is a maintained registry of the compliance and professional-ethics obligations that govern licensed behavioural-health practice — psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Canada first, the United States to follow.
Regulators publish authoritative information organized around their mandate. Blogs and vendor sites organize around your question, but are frequently wrong and rarely dated. This site occupies the middle: organized around the question, held to the source.
What this is not
This is not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Pages state rules, quote the source verbatim, and list what to confirm and with whom. They never apply the law to your facts — that judgment belongs to you and, where it matters, to your college, your accountant, your insurer, or a lawyer you retain.
The discipline
Every substantive page follows the same three moves:
- State the rule — plainly, in one or two sentences.
- Quote the source — verbatim, with a link to the regulator, statute, or gazette that made it.
- Give verification steps — the checks you perform, not conclusions reached for you.
Two stamps carry the trust:
- Last verified — the date we last checked the claim against its primary source. A verified non-change is information, so the stamp moves even when the rule doesn’t.
- Enacted vs. in force — a rule that has been passed is not always a rule you must follow yet. The distinction is first-class here, because effective dates, not enactment dates, are the compliance trigger.
Claims we cannot yet trace to a primary source ship with an explicit low-confidence flag or not at all. Where a regulator has published nothing, “no published standard in this jurisdiction” is stated as a finding — not papered over.
The changelog
Every verified change to every entry — field changes, new records, retirements — lands in the changelog, dated and sourced, append-only. The weekly rollup of that changelog is the Bulletin. Nothing on this site changes silently.
Introduced bills are deliberately not shown on reference pages. A bill that may die in committee is noise where you check what the law requires; movement is reported in the Bulletin, and a rule reaches the reference only on passage or coming into force.
Corrections
If an entry is wrong, stale, or missing its receipt, that is a defect. Corrections are logged in the changelog like any other change — visibly, with the old text preserved.
Who maintains this
Therapy Bulletin is maintained by a licensed, Canadian-registered clinical psychologist. It is independent: no regulator, association, or vendor directs its content.