Marriage & Family Therapist
Marriage & Family Therapist · taxonomy 106H00000X
What this licence covers
Marriage and family therapists (LMFT) hold a master’s degree and are trained to treat the relationship rather than only the individual — couples, parents and children, or a whole family seen together. They also see individuals, usually with a focus on relationship patterns.
The formal definition
A marriage and family therapist is a person with a master's degree in marriage and family therapy, or a master's or doctoral degree in a related mental health field with substantially equivalent coursework in marriage and family therapy, who receives supervised clinical experience, or a person who meets the state requirements to practice as a marriage and family therapist. A marriage and family therapist treats mental and emotional disorders within the context of marriage and family systems. A marriage and family therapist provides mental health and counseling services to individuals, couples, families, and groups.
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 personThese 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.
Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.