Psychologist Licensure in Kansas: Degree, Supervised Hours and the EPPP

Kansas issues the licensed psychologist credential to doctoral applicants, and it licenses two master's tiers: the Licensed Master's Level Psychologist and the Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist.

Neither master's tier may use the title licensed psychologist or psychologist.

The community-based psychologist licence is a restricted variant for psychologists employed by a community mental health center, federally qualified health center, psychiatric residential treatment facility or private treatment facility: absent extenuating circumstances it expires when the board issues or denies the full licence, or 24 months after issuance, and it cannot be renewed or reissued.

A separate community-based master's level psychologist licence (74-5363(e)) shares those employment settings, that expiry and the no-renewal rule; its holder uses the LMLP title, and its supervision rule is its own: practice only under a person licensed to practice psychology or master's level psychology in Kansas, so an LMLP qualifies, with the fee capped at $100 against $225 for the doctoral variant.

Neither licence may be issued to someone previously issued a community-based or temporary licence at that level (74-5310(c)(7); 74-5363(e)(7)).

The doctoral degree test names institutional standards rather than a specific accreditor (K.S.A.

74-5310(a)(3)): the degree must rest on a program of studies in content primarily psychological, or its substantial equivalent, at an institution whose graduate standards are consistent with the state universities of Kansas.

Applicants must be at least 21 and satisfy the board that they merit the public trust (74-5310(a)(1)-(2)).

The master's tier's main route asks for at least 60 graduate hours including a master's degree in psychology based on a program of studies in psychology from an educational institution having a graduate program in psychology consistent with state universities of Kansas.

A second route takes a doctoral student who has passed comprehensive or equivalent final examinations in a doctoral program in psychology, with 12 semester hours of psychological foundation courses and 24 of professional core courses.

A third route, stated to run until July 1, 2003, took a master's degree with the same coursework.

Every route needs 750 clock hours of academically supervised practicum or 1,500 clock hours of postgraduate supervised work experience (74-5363(b)(4)).

The statute requires at least two years of supervised experience, a significant portion spent rendering psychological services that satisfy the board's approved standards.

The board's application page is the text that gives those years their shape: 1 year must be a predoctoral internship and 1 year of postdoctoral experience, so the postdoctoral year is still required as written.

The sources read state the requirement in years, not hours — the hour totals sit in the board's administrative regulations (K.A.R.

102-1), which were not retrieved.

Confirm with the BSRB how your internship and postdoctoral hours will be counted before you commit to a placement.

The board's application page asks applicants to pass a nationally standardized competency examination, the EPPP, at 500.

The master's pages set the LMLP's pass mark at a scaled score of 400 and require LCP applicants to reach the psychologist passing score of 500.

No requirement for EPPP Part 2 (Skills) was found in the sources read, and no jurisprudence or oral exam appeared on the pages read either.

The question is time-limited: ASPPB's single integrated EPPP replaces both parts for first-time takers from fall 2027 and becomes the only version from April 1, 2028, so confirm with the BSRB which version you will sit.

A licensed master's level psychologist may practise psychology only under the direction of an eligible list of independent practitioners — the direction need not come from a psychologist, but it must come from a licensee whose credential allows diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.

For an associate choosing a supervisor, that list is the whole decision.

The statute also binds every licensee under the master's level psychologists act, LMLP and LCP alike, to a medical-consultation duty: when a client shows symptoms of a mental disorder, the licensee consults the client's primary care physician or psychiatrist about whether a medical condition or medication may be causing or contributing to the symptoms, unless the client waives it in writing, and may keep evaluating and treating until the consultation is obtained or waived.

The Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist is Kansas's independent master's licence.

The applicant must already be an LMLP or meet every LMLP requirement, add 15 credit hours of coursework supporting diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders with the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic and statistical manual, and complete a graduate-level supervised clinical practicum with not less than 350 hours of direct client contact, or additional postgraduate supervised experience as determined by the board.

The experience core is not less than two years of postgraduate supervised professional experience under a board-approved clinical supervision plan: 3,000 hours including 1,500 of direct client contact, at least 100 hours of face-to-face clinical supervision, 50 of them individual.

The exam is the psychologist-level EPPP score.

Once licensed, the LCP practises independently and diagnoses and treats mental disorders, and the medical-consultation duty restated in (c)(3) reaches the LCP too — while the statute still bars both master's tiers from the titles licensed psychologist or psychologist.

Kansas is a PSYPACT member in effect: the commission's map, read in September 2026, records Kansas SB 170 as enacted May 17, 2021 and effective January 1, 2022.

The BSRB's psychologists page carries a PSYPACT section, though the compact statute itself was not among the sources read, so the status here rests on the commission map.

PSYPACT is doctoral-only, so a Kansas LMLP or LCP cannot use it — it matters to licensed psychologists practising telepsychology into, or temporarily in person in, a participating state.

An out-of-state psychologist takes the board's LP Reciprocity route: either the state that licensed you has substantially equivalent requirements to Kansas's, or you are licensed and in good standing with an absence of disciplinary actions of a serious nature, at least the last 12 months of continuous licensure as a psychologist at the doctoral level with a similar scope of practice, and a doctoral degree in psychology.

Master's-level psychologists have their own LMLP/LCP reciprocity application.

For short engagements, a psychologist already licensed at the independent level can take an out-of-state permit allowing 30 days of practice in the year the permit is active; the master's level has a matching LCP out-of-state temporary permit.

The board's renewal pages set the same continuing-education figure for every psychologist credential: 50 hours total, of which at least 3 must be in Ethics and at least 3 in Diagnosis and Treatment.

The cycle length — whether those 50 hours run per year or across a longer period — is not stated on the pages read, so check your renewal packet before scheduling CE.

Licensees may open an optional CE Broker account to upload documentation of their hours.

The psychologists' licensing statute, K.S.A.

74-5310, was amended by L.

2023 ch. 90 §30, the master's licensure statute, K.S.A.

74-5363, by L.

2021 ch. 88 §30 and L.

2023 ch. 90 §35, and the act's definitions statute, K.S.A.

74-5361, by L.

2023 ch. 90 §34.

The sources read do not show which provisions those amendments changed, so this page restates the statutes as they now stand; consult the session laws or the board if a specific amendment's effect matters to your application.