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

Nevada's psychology chapter issues one full licence: psychologist.

Everything below it is provisional or registered — a psychological intern licence for the doctoral internship, a psychological assistant licence for the postdoctoral year, and a psychological trainee registration for supervised work during doctoral training — each with its own expiry and renewal cap in NRS 641.226(7).

The definitions make the sequencing explicit: an assistant is a person holding the provisional licence, and a trainee is a person registered with the Board.

The chapter's only other licence, added in 2025, is the bachelor's-level behavioral health and wellness practitioner, which is not a psychology licence.

The degree rule has two routes.

The first is a doctorate in psychology from an accredited educational institution the Board has approved.

The second covers applicants whose doctorate sits outside psychology: other doctorate-level training from an accredited institution can qualify, but only where the Board deems it equivalent in both subject matter and extent of training.

The statute also obliges the Board to issue a written statement of its determination within 120 days, with a detailed explanation where it finds doctorate-level training not equivalent — a reason to ask the Board early if your degree took an unusual route.

The statute requires at least 2 years of experience satisfactory to the Board, 1 postdoctoral.

The rule fills both halves: the first is an APA-accredited doctoral internship, or an equivalent internship requiring at least 2,000 hours of training, completed in not less than 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time.

The second must be postdoctoral, not less than 1,750 hours, met either under ASPPB's guidelines or the rule's own conditions: not less than 10 months and not more than 3 years, 50 percent of weekly hours in clinical services, 15 percent in face-to-face client care, each unless the Board approves otherwise.

NRS 641.226(1) requires that year to be served on a provisional licence as a psychological assistant.

The rule text read contains no provision letting accredited-program graduates count internship or practicum hours toward that half.

Applicants licensed at least 5 years elsewhere with a clean record get a 1,500-hour floor per year, but one year must still be a subsection 4 internship, and the postdoctoral year must satisfy subsection 6, where the ASPPB alternative is unavailable (NAC 641.080(3)).

Each applicant for a psychologist licence must pass the national examination, which Nevada defines as the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology in the form ASPPB administers; the passing score was not stated in the rule read.

The Board also administers a state examination covering the practice of professional psychology, federal and state laws, ethical principles and codes of professional conduct.

Failure carries procedure: three failures bar a retake unless the Board approves a written remediation plan, and a fourth failure deems the application denied, with reapplication possible no earlier than 18 months after notice.

No EPPP Part 2 requirement appears in the sources read.

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

Whatever a psychological assistant, psychological intern or psychological trainee does must be performed under the supervision of a psychologist, under Board regulation.

For an internship that is not APA-accredited, the plan filed with the Board must show supervision of not less than 4 hours per week, including at least 2 hours per week of face-to-face individual supervision by doctoral-level licensed psychologists who hold primary professional responsibility for the intern's cases.

For a postdoctoral year taken under the rule's own conditions — the subsection 6 alternative to ASPPB's guidelines, and the only route on the reduced-hours path — the setting must offer colleague interaction and a broad client range, at least 40 hours must go to training in cultural, ethnic and group processes, and at least 3 hours of individual face-to-face supervision must focus on that area.

A supervisor who cannot document all of it puts your hours at risk.

No master's-level psychology licence was found in the sources read: Nevada's supervised rungs — psychological intern, psychological assistant and psychological trainee — are statuses for people already inside a doctoral training program, and a trainee registration is not a licence.

The one other licence the Board issues is deliberately narrower: the bachelor's-level behavioral health and wellness practitioner, whose scope definition excludes the practice of psychology or medicine, psychological assessment and testing, and the diagnosis of any physical or mental disorder.

Nevada psychologists have no prescriptive authority.

Nevada enacted the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact through AB 429 and prints its text at NRS 641.227.

The PSYPACT Commission map, as read in September 2026, lists Nevada as a member in effect since July 1, 2020.

A Nevada psychologist can use the compact to deliver telepsychology in participating states or to work there in person for up to 30 days a year, through ASPPB's E.Passport or Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate plus the matching PSYPACT authorization.

The compact covers doctoral-level psychologists only: none of Nevada's provisional licences or registrations can travel on it.

The main mover route is expedited endorsement (NRS 641.196): a holder of a valid, unrestricted psychologist licence in DC or any state or territory, free of home-board discipline, investigation and civil or criminal malpractice liability, files proof, fingerprints, an affidavit and the fee.

Unless it denies the file for good cause, the Board must issue the licence within 45 days of a complete file and may grant a provisional licence pending its decision.

It may license without examination where another state's requirements are at least equivalent, and waive the EPPP for an out-of-state licensee with at least 10 years' experience who is an ABPP diplomate or APA fellow or holds other equivalent status as determined by the Board.

The Board can authorize practice for 1 year or less while the application pends: applied, Nevada's education and experience requirements met, no discipline elsewhere.

Applicants licensed at least 5 years in DC or another state or territory, record clean, count each year at not less than 1,500 hours; one still a subsection 4 internship, the postdoc under subsection 6.

Renewal is due on or before the first day of January of each odd-numbered year, with the biennial fee (NRS 641.220(1)).

On the CE side the rule asks a psychologist to certify 30 hours of Board-approved continuing education across the 2 years preceding renewal — at least 6 in scientific and professional ethics and common areas of professional misconduct, at least 2 in evidence-based suicide prevention and awareness, and at least 2 in cultural competency and diversity, equity and inclusion, with not more than 15 hours from home study and no credit for instructing (NAC 641.136(1)).

The statute overlays its own minimums: suicide-prevention hours must be completed within 2 years after initial licensure and at least every 4 years thereafter (NRS 641.220(4)(a)), and it requires at least 6 hours of cultural-competency instruction biennially (NRS 641.220(4)(b)) — while the rule, last amended in 2022, says 2; confirm with the Board which standard applies.

The wellness practitioner licence renews separately every 3 years with 20 hours (NRS 641.2255).

The 2025 legislative session reshaped this chapter in two directions.

It created the behavioral health and wellness practitioner licence — new definitions, Board rulemaking authority, the licence itself at NRS 641.2254, a 3-year renewal with 20 CE hours, and a supervisor list at NRS 641.2257 — along with a Behavioral Health and Wellness Practitioner Advisory Group effective through December 31, 2028.

The same session amended the definitions of psychological assistant and psychological intern (2025, 1160).

NRS 641.220, the renewal-and-CE statute, was amended in 2023 and again in 2025.

The exam landscape is changing on ASPPB's clock rather than Nevada's: the integrated EPPP becomes the only version on April 1, 2028.

Because this 2025 licence is new and sits under the psychology board, it deserves a plain description.

The Board must issue it to an applicant who is of good moral character, is at least 18, holds a bachelor's degree or higher in psychology, social work, human services or a related field, has completed a Board-approved educational program in behavioral health promotion and prevention, names the provider who will supervise them, and has passed the Board-approved examination or demonstrated competency through the regulation-based alternative.

Supervision may come from a psychiatrist, a psychiatrically trained advanced practice registered nurse, a psychologist, a clinical professional counselor, a marriage and family therapist or a clinical social worker.

The work is prevention and intervention for people at risk of mental or behavioral health issues — the statute then excludes a long list, from psychological assessment and testing to the diagnosis of any disorder, clinical professional counseling and marriage and family therapy.