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Group Psychotherapy Psychologist

Psychologist · Group Psychotherapy · taxonomy 103TP2701X

362
Registered nationally
0.02%
Share of this field
42
States with providers

What this licence covers

Psychologists hold a doctoral degree (PhD, PsyD or EdD) and are licensed by a state board. They provide talk therapy and are the only non-physician group generally licensed to administer and interpret psychological testing, such as assessments for ADHD, learning disorders or personality. In most states they cannot prescribe medication.

Therapy delivered to several unrelated people together as a group.

The formal definition

A psychologist who specializes in group psychology and group psychotherapy that is an evidenced-based specialty that prepares group leaders to identify and capitalize on developmental and healing possibilities embedded in the interpersonal/intrapersonal functioning of individual group members as well as collectively for the group. Emphasis is placed on the use of group dynamics to assist and treat individual group members. The specialty is applicable to all age groups, children, adolescents, adults and older adults, for a wide variety of conditions and concerns, and in numerous and diverse settings.

Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.

Many also hold another licence

different training route, same person

These are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.

Counselor
397
109.7%
Marriage & Family Therapist
122
33.7%
Clinical Neuropsychologist
109
30.1%
Social Worker
74
20.4%
Behavior Analyst
45
12.4%
Occupational Therapist
3
0.8%

Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.

By state

57
15.7%
27
7.5%
24
6.6%
19
5.2%
19
5.2%
16
4.4%
14
3.9%
13
3.6%
12
3.3%
11
3.0%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
9
2.5%
8
2.2%
7
1.9%
7
1.9%
7
1.9%
6
1.7%
6
1.7%
5
1.4%
5
1.4%

Related licence types

also under Psychologist