Vermont Psychology Licensure Requirements

500

The Board's official Psychologist Application Instructions (February 2026) state a passing score of 500 is required for licensure. The Board's administrative rules themselves state only that 'The passing score is set by the ASPPB who reports the score to the Board' (Rule 2.12(a)), i.e. Vermont uses the ASPPB scaled passing score. Vermont's rules and application instructions reference only the EPPP (Part 1); no EPPP Part 2 requirement was found. Applicants who have not previously been licensed must pass the EPPP within 5 years of applying (Rule 2.11), and education must be approved by the Office before the applicant is made eligible to sit.

26 V.S.A. § 3011a(a)(2)(A) and Board Rule 2.2(d) require 4,000 total hours of supervised practice, of which no fewer than 2,000 must be completed after the doctoral degree was received. The Board's application page states '2000 of the 4000 hours can be internship hours. At least 2000 must be post-graduate' — so the 2,000 pre-doctoral figure is the maximum creditable predoctoral/internship portion, not an independent minimum. The same 4,000/2,000 structure applies to master's-level licensure (§ 3011a(a)(2)(B), Rule 3.2(d)). Post-degree supervised practice may not be completed in less than one year (Rules 2.14(a), 4.12(a)); a year containing fewer than 700 hours does not count (Rule 4.12(b)); only hours acquired within 5 years of completing the application count (Rule 4.12(c)); no more than 40 hours per week may count (Rule 4.14). At least two different post-degree supervisors are required, each supervising no fewer than 500 hours (Rule 4.9). Supervision ratio: 2 hours of supervision per 40 hours of practice, one of which must be formal individual in-person (Rule 4.10). Anyone doing supervised practice in Vermont must first be entered on the Roster of Non-Licensed, Non-Certified Psychotherapists or the hours will not be accepted.

Required

Open-book written exam on the Vermont statutes and rules governing the practice of psychology, taken inside the OPR online application; the completed answer sheet is uploaded with the application. Passing requires fewer than six (6) incorrect answers. Required for applicants by examination, by endorsement, and by Fast Track Endorsement.

Required by 26 V.S.A. § 3014(a)(4) for endorsement applicants and by Board Rules 2.1(b), 2.2(e) and 2.21 for all applicants ('All applicants must successfully complete the Board's jurisprudence (statutes and rules) examination before a license will be issued'). No separate fee for the jurisprudence exam is listed in 26 V.S.A. § 3010 or on OPR's fee schedule; it appears to be included in the application, but no source affirmatively states it is free, so the fee is left null. Successful completion of the Vermont Jurisprudence Examination may be counted for one hour of continuing education credit, per the continuing education part of the Board's rules.

1. Earn a doctoral degree in psychology from an APA/CPA-accredited program, an ASPPB/National Register designated program, or another regionally accredited professional psychology program meeting Board Rules 2.3–2.6 (a Board-approved master's degree supports the separate Psychologist-Master license).
2. Before beginning any supervised practice in Vermont, register on the Roster of Non-Licensed, Non-Certified Psychotherapists — hours accrued while not on the roster will not be accepted.
3. Complete 4,000 hours of supervised practice, of which at least 2,000 must be post-degree (up to 2,000 may be internship), under at least two licensed-psychologist supervisors who each supervise 500+ hours, over no less than one year.
4. Submit the online application to the Office of Professional Regulation with the $240 fee, official transcripts sent directly from the school, the Licensure Course Requirements form, the Summary of Supervised Experience form, and Supervision Report forms sent directly by your supervisors.
5. Take the open-book Vermont jurisprudence (statutes and rules) exam inside the online application and upload the answer sheet; fewer than six incorrect answers is a pass.
6. After the Board approves your education, sit for the EPPP at a Prometric center within the 60-day authorization window and earn a scaled score of 500 or higher.
7. Once the Board reviews the completed file at a regular meeting, receive your license and renew every two years by January 31 of even years with $195 and 60 hours of continuing education (including at least one hour on systematic oppression and anti-oppressive practice).

PSYPACT member

Vermont offers several out-of-state routes. Standard endorsement (26 V.S.A. § 3014(a); Rule 2.17): a psychologist licensed in good standing in another U.S. or Canadian jurisdiction may be licensed if the Board judges that jurisdiction's requirements substantially equivalent to Vermont's — for supervised practice the Board treats a state requiring no fewer than 1,500 post-degree supervised hours as substantially equivalent — plus passage of the Vermont jurisprudence exam. Licensure is also available based on current diplomate status in an American Board of Professional Psychology academy (Rule 2.18) or evidence from an individual certification program acceptable to the Board (Rule 2.19). For applicants from jurisdictions the Board does not find substantially equivalent, § 3014(b) allows licensure where the applicant is a doctoral-level psychologist in good standing with no disciplinary history who has practiced an average of at least 1,000 hours per year for a minimum of seven years and has remained licensed for the five years preceding application. OPR also runs a 'Fast Track Endorsement' route for doctorate applicants actively licensed in good standing in another jurisdiction for three or more years, requiring only the application, official license verification, and the jurisprudence exam; a 90-day provisional license may be issued while verification is pending. Vermont has enacted the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), 26 V.S.A. ch. 55, subch. 2 (§§ 3021 et seq.), added by 2023 Acts and Resolves No. 37, § 1, effective July 1, 2024.

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