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

The Board issues three psychology licences: regular, provisional and temporary.

The provisional licence is not a stage every applicant passes through — the Board may grant it only when it finds a need for psychological services in a rural part of Wyoming and the applicant is employed by a state or community mental health center.

The temporary licence lets a psychologist already licensed by another US state, territory or an equal-or-exceed foreign board offer services here for not more than 30 working days in a year, with a report to the Board once practice passes 20 working days.

The two certificates, Psychological Practitioner and Specialist in School Psychology, sit below the licence.

Outside the exemptions, representing yourself as a psychologist and practising without one is a misdemeanour.

The statute asks for a doctoral degree from a program of graduate study in psychology as defined in the rules, awarded by an institution of higher education.

The statute's own definition leans on the institution: a regionally accredited one offering a full-time doctoral course of study in psychology as defined in board rules, with Canadian universities accepted through recognized membership in the association of universities and colleges of Canada and other foreign institutions evaluated case-by-case by the Board.

Rule 5-1 adds a reputation for honesty, trustworthiness, integrity and competence, and it lists the alternative qualification routes covered in the endorsement section below.

The statute requires two years of supervised professional experience that may be completed before and after the degree; the rule sizes it at 3,000 hours in no less than two years, with 1,500 hours equal to one year.

The experience must include a pre-doctoral internship that was accredited by the APA Commission on Accreditation or was an APPIC member at the time, or documented equivalent experience.

Pre-internship practicum, clerkship or other program-required training can supply up to one year — 1,500 hours — if it meets the rule's documentation, 60% direct-contact and supervision terms.

Only when the two years are incomplete at the end of the program does post-doctoral work enter, and then up to 1,500 supervised post-doctoral hours can be used.

A graduate whose internship plus qualifying pre-internship hours reach 3,000 owes no post-doctoral hours under the rule as written.

The examination is the current EPPP, and every applicant must reach at least 70 percent or a scaled score of 500.

The exam must be passed within two years of the Board's initial notification; an applicant who cannot pass within that window must wait an additional two years to reapply.

For applicants not licensed in another jurisdiction who took the EPPP within five years before applying, the Board may waive a retake if the earlier score met the standard.

The statute also allows any other written or oral examinations the Board prescribes; none was found in the rules read, and no EPPP Part 2 requirement was found either.

ASPPB's integrated EPPP replaces the two-part exam for first-time takers from fall 2027 and is the only version from April 1, 2028.

The pre-internship rule is specific about supervisors: at least 75% of the supervision must come from a licensed psychologist, and up to 25% may come from a psychiatrist with at least three years beyond residency, a licensed mental health counselor with three years post-license, a licensed marriage and family therapist with five years, or a licensed clinical social worker with three years.

During post-doctoral training the rules cap the title: a Psychological Resident may not use the term "Psychologist" and resident names may not appear in advertising; announcements, business cards and direct billing need supervisor approval with the supervisor's name, address and telephone number on every document.

The supervisor signs a Supervision Verification Form sent directly to the Board, and post-doctoral experience earned outside Wyoming must be substantially equivalent to Wyoming's.

The Psychological Practitioner certificate is supervised as far as the rules read: the holder practises under a psychologist qualified by scope of practice in the practitioner's work area, that psychologist keeps ultimate responsibility for the work and every client's welfare, and the rule binds the practitioner to the act and board rules irrespective of any other training, certification or title.

The statute says these certificate holders may not represent themselves by the title "psychologist".

The Specialist in School Psychology certificate likewise functions under a psychologist's supervision.

The rules read contain no route from either certificate to independent practice.

The section records no prescriptive authority for Wyoming psychologists at any level.

Wyoming joined PSYPACT through WY S 26, which the PSYPACT Commission map shows as enacted and effective on February 15, 2023, as read in September 2026.

The Psychology Practice Act folds the compact in as W.S.

33-27-202 and directs the Board to extend practice authority to anyone who meets the compact's conditions and the Board's participation rules.

The statute is specific about credentials: compact practitioners must hold an ASPPB E.Passport and an interjurisdictional practice certificate.

PSYPACT is doctoral-only, so a Psychological Practitioner or Specialist in School Psychology certificate cannot carry practice into another state under it.

Rule 5-1 lists routes that can replace the standard education, experience and exam showing.

A current ASPPB Certificate of Professional Qualification in good standing is one.

Membership in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology or the American Board of Professional Psychology, together with a licence in good standing in another jurisdiction with substantially equivalent requirements, is another.

And a licence in good standing in a jurisdiction whose requirements equal or exceed Wyoming's, held through five continuous years of practice immediately before applying, qualifies on its own.

Separately, the statute lets the Board waive any examination for a psychologist licensed in another jurisdiction with equal-or-exceed requirements, and the temporary licence covers visits of up to 30 working days a year.

Licences and certificates expire on June 30 every year.

Renewal postmarked within 30 days after expiry carries a late fee; more than 30 days late, the Board will not accept the application and the licence or certificate expires, with a one-year restoration window.

For restoration, the Board's current notice, issued per Chapter 8 Section 2, asks 40 hours of continuing education within the preceding 24 months; the last rule text read (Rule 8-1(f), amended January 30, 2023) set 30 hours within the preceding 48, and with the 2025 text unread the page defers to the Board's current notice.

For regular renewal, the old CE rule asks 30 hours every two years, of which up to 20 may be WPA- or WSPA-approved and at least 10 must be APA- or NASP-approved; the Board lets holders renewing in 2026 or 2027 use those old rules, and the new Chapter 18 CE requirements take hold in the 2028 or 2029 renewal cycle.

The 2025 text, filed October 2, 2025, was not read, so the Chapter 18 hours are not stated here.

The rules this page rests on were amended effective May 13, 2021 and January 30, 2023 — including the general-requirements rule 5-1, the experience rule 5-4, the exam rule 5-5 and the CE rules 8-1 and 8-2.

The Board's rules page says current Rules and Regulations were filed October 2, 2025, and its renewal page announced new CE requirements effective October 1, 2025; that 2025 text was not read, and the LII version may predate it.

The Board page also references 2022 HB0110 (Enrolled Act No. 18, effective March 9, 2022), the behavior-analyst act that sits in this chapter alongside psychology.