Telehealth Rules for California Therapists: Where the Client Sits, Out-of-State Clients, and Consent
A Guide to California's Telehealth Practice Rules
California regulates telehealth psychotherapy through two texts: Business and Professions Code section 2290.5, which defines telehealth and requires documented consent, and Title 16, California Code of Regulations, section 1815.5, the Board of Behavioral Sciences standards of practice for telehealth. Together they answer the questions that come up in every telehealth practice: whose law applies when the client sits in one place and the therapist in another, what has to be said and written down before and during a session, whether a California therapist may see a client who has crossed a state line, whether a therapist licensed elsewhere may see a client who has crossed into California, and whether associates and trainees follow the same rules. This guide covers the practice of telehealth. Supervision by videoconference is covered in the telehealth supervision guide, and counting telehealth hours toward licensure in the online practicum and hours guide.
Where Does a Telehealth Session Legally Take Place?
At the client's location. Section 2290.5 defines the "Originating site" as "a site where a patient is located at the time health care services are provided via a telecommunications system," and the "Distant site" as "a site where a health care provider who provides health care services is located while providing these services via a telecommunications system" (California Legislature, 2026a). The Board's regulation attaches the licensing consequence to the originating site: "all persons engaging in the practice of marriage and family therapy, educational psychology, clinical social work, or professional clinical counseling via telehealth, as defined in section 2290.5 of the Code, with a client who is physically located in this State must have a current and active license or registration issued by the Board" (16 CCR section 1815.5(a)). The regulation adds that telehealth changes nothing else about the Board's authority: "All psychotherapy services offered by board licensees and registrants via telehealth fall within the jurisdiction of the board just as traditional face-to-face services do. Therefore, all psychotherapy services offered via telehealth are subject to the board's statutes and regulations" (16 CCR section 1815.5(b)). Section 2290.5 says the same in statute: "All laws and regulations governing professional responsibility, unprofessional conduct, and standards of practice that apply to a health care provider under the health care provider's license shall apply to that health care provider while providing telehealth services" (California Legislature, 2026a).
The therapist's own location carries no licensing weight. The Board's telehealth FAQ answers the question directly: a California licensee who is out of state may provide telehealth to a client located in California when the case is appropriate for telehealth, the California license is current and active, and the licensee follows section 1815.5; and "a California Associate whose registration number is current and active can continue to practice with clients located in California while the associate is out-of-state if their supervisor permits it" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2026a). The reverse question, a California therapist treating a client who is outside California, is governed by the other state and is taken up below. Because the client's location decides which law applies, the Board's guidance on online therapy platforms lists first among a practitioner's duties "Determining the location of the client to ensure they can legally provide telehealth services in the jurisdiction where the client is located" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2024a).
What Must Happen Before the First Telehealth Session?
Four things, and all four are documented. First, consent to the mode of care. Section 2290.5(b) provides: "Before the delivery of health care via telehealth, the health care provider initiating the use of telehealth shall inform the patient about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth as an acceptable mode of delivering health care services and public health. The consent shall be documented" (California Legislature, 2026a). The regulation restates the duty as the first item a licensee or registrant completes "Upon initiation of telehealth services": "Obtain informed consent from the client consistent with section 2290.5 of the Code" (16 CCR section 1815.5(c)(1)). Consent to telehealth is separate from consent to treatment; a client who has signed a general informed consent has not yet consented to telehealth unless the document says so. Second, the therapist must "Inform the client of the potential risks and limitations of receiving treatment via telehealth" (16 CCR section 1815.5(c)(2)). Third, the therapist must "Provide the client with their license or registration number and the type of license or registration" (16 CCR section 1815.5(c)(3)). Fourth, the therapist must "Document reasonable efforts made to ascertain the contact information of relevant resources, including emergency services, in the patient's geographic area" (16 CCR section 1815.5(c)(4)); for a client two hundred miles away, that means the client's local crisis line, nearest emergency department, and a local contact, written into the record before the work begins.
Two other California requirements sit alongside these. The written Notice to Clients required by section 4980.32, with the Board's complaint language and, for clients who began on or after July 1, 2025, the therapist's name, license or registration number, type, and expiration date, applies to telehealth clients exactly as to office clients, and its delivery is documented (California Legislature, 2026b). And every applicant for licensure and every licensee must have completed "a minimum of three hours of training or coursework in the provision of mental health services via telehealth, which must include law and ethics related to telehealth," a one-time requirement in force since July 1, 2023, met through graduate coursework or a continuing education course (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2023). The consequence of skipping the consent step is written into the statute: "The failure of a health care provider to comply with this section shall constitute unprofessional conduct" (California Legislature, 2026a), and the Marriage and Family Therapist Act repeats it as its own ground for discipline, "Failure to comply with the procedures set forth in Section 2290.5 when delivering health care via telehealth" (California Legislature, 2026c).
What Must Happen in Every Session?
Three things, every time. The regulation lists them under the heading "Each time a licensee or registrant provides services via telehealth." First: "Verbally obtain from the client and document the client's full name and address of present location, at the beginning of each telehealth session" (16 CCR section 1815.5(d)(1)). The requirement is verbal and it is every session, not a checkbox on an intake form; a client who has moved to a hotel, a parent's house, or another state since the last session has changed the legal setting of the work, and the address in the note is what shows the therapist knew it. Second: "Assess whether the client is appropriate for telehealth, including, but not limited to, consideration of the client's psychosocial situation" (16 CCR section 1815.5(d)(2)); a client in acute crisis, without privacy, or intoxicated may not be appropriate for a video session that day, and section 2290.5 preserves the alternative: telehealth consent "does not preclude a patient from receiving in-person health care delivery services during a specified course of health care and treatment" (California Legislature, 2026a). Third: comply with "all applicable federal and state privacy, confidentiality, and security laws and regulations governing the use and disclosure of a client's medical information or protected health information," which the regulation names as the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (Civil Code section 56 and following) and HIPAA's security standards at 45 CFR sections 164.302 through 164.318 (16 CCR section 1815.5(d)(3)). Section 2290.5 adds that "All laws regarding the confidentiality of health care information and a patient's rights to the patient's medical information shall apply to telehealth interactions" (California Legislature, 2026a).
The Board's guidance on online-only therapy platforms translates these duties for therapists employed by app-based companies, whose licensees "are still required to follow the telehealth laws established by the Board." Its list adds "Ensuring that there is an emergency response plan in place in case of a client emergency," "Being familiar with the therapy platform's policies regarding custodian of records, and practitioner access to client records," "Ensuring sessions and client records are secure and confidential, in alignment with their professions' code of ethics," and "Verifying the client's identity in order to protect confidentiality" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2024a). The Board's regulatory authority "does not extend directly to businesses or companies," so the duties rest on the licensee, and the guidance advises a licensee considering a platform to "determine whether the online platform will provide them with the necessary tools to uphold their legal obligations" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2024a).
Can a California Therapist See a Client Who Is in Another State?
Only if the other state allows it. The regulation states the rule in one sentence: "A licensee or registrant of this state may provide telehealth services to clients located in another jurisdiction only if the California licensee or registrant meets the requirements to lawfully provide services in that jurisdiction, and delivery of services via telehealth is allowed by that jurisdiction" (16 CCR section 1815.5(e)). The Board's FAQ answers the question "Can a licensee of the Board of Behavioral Sciences provide telehealth services to a client located in another state?" with "It depends," restates section 1815.5(e), and adds: "It is the licensee's or registrant's responsibility to check with the other jurisdiction to determine if they would be allowed to provide telehealth services in that state" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2026a). The California license itself confers nothing across the state line. Some states license out-of-state therapists by endorsement, some allow a limited number of days of practice with an existing client, and some require full licensure before any session; the answer comes from that state's licensing board, and it has to be found before the client's first session from the new location, not after. The licensure by state guide collects the requirements state by state.
The practical situations are the common ones: a college student client who goes home to Oregon for the summer, a client who takes a job in Texas and wants to continue, a client on a two-week trip to Arizona. In each case the question is the same, and the therapist's own record must show the answer. The one certainty is procedural: the session-opening address check in section 1815.5(d)(1) is what tells the therapist the client has crossed a line, which is why the regulation requires it every time.
Can an Out-of-State Therapist See a Client Who Is in California?
Not without California authorization. Section 1815.5(a) requires a current and active California license or registration for telehealth with a client physically located in California, and section 4980.30 provides that "a person shall not practice, or advertise the performance of, marriage and family therapy services unless the person has applied to the board for a license, paid the license fee required by this chapter, and obtained a license from the board" (California Legislature, 2026d). The Board's FAQ tells a clinician who is licensed elsewhere and relocating to California that they may continue to see clients located in their state of licensure if that state permits it, but "in order to provide services to clients located in California, you must obtain a California license or practice under supervision with a California-issued Associate registration until you obtain California licensure" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2026a). The Board sponsored SB 679 in 2019 to create a streamlined out-of-state pathway to licensure for qualifying LMFT, LCSW, and LPCC licensees (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a).
California does provide one narrow exception for continuity of care. Section 4980.11 allows a person who holds an out-of-state marriage and family therapist license "at the highest level for independent clinical practice" that is "current, active, and unrestricted" to provide services in California "for a period not to exceed 30 consecutive days in any calendar year," provided that "The client is located in California during the time the person seeks to provide care in California" and "The client is a current client of the person and has an established, ongoing client-provider relationship with the person at the time the client became located in California" (California Legislature, 2026e). The therapist must tell the client of "the limited timeframe of the services and that the person is not licensed in California," give the client the Board's website address and the therapist's home-state license type and number, notify the Board in advance of the start date and identifying information, and, since January 1, 2026, "submit a signed statement, under penalty of perjury, acknowledging that they are subject to the jurisdiction of the board and agreeing to be bound by the laws of this state" (California Legislature, 2026e). The section expires on January 1, 2030, unless extended. The Board's FAQ on the allowance explains that it is requested through BreEZe, is free, is "valid for 30 consecutive days per calendar year," cannot be granted twice in a year, cannot have its start date changed once issued, and "is only available to persons fully licensed in other states or U.S. jurisdictions" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2024b). Its purpose, in the Board's words, is "to allow therapists licensed in other states to have continuity of care with their clients who may need to continue therapy sessions while they are in California," for example a client "vacationing or traveling for work in California" or "in the process of moving to California" who wants "to continue to see their old therapist for a short time while they are in the process of finding a new, California licensed therapist" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2024b).
Do the Same Rules Apply to Trainees and Associates?
Yes, with the school and the supervisor added. Section 2290.5 defines "Health care provider" to include "An associate marriage and family therapist or marriage and family therapist trainee functioning pursuant to Section 4980.43.3," so the consent requirement applies to registrants and trainees by its own terms (California Legislature, 2026a). Section 4980.43.3(i) confirms the authority: "An associate or a trainee may provide services via telehealth that are in the scope of practice outlined in this chapter" (California Legislature, 2026f). The regulation's licensing sentence begins "Except as provided in section 2290.5 of the Code for trainees," because a trainee holds no registration and practices under the school's jurisdiction and supervision; every other duty in section 1815.5, from consent to the session-opening address check, applies to associates as registrants and, in the Board's words, students "are permitted to provide mental health services via telehealth as long as they are under the supervision of their school and supervisor and are following applicable statutes and regulations pertaining to telehealth," with the Board recommending that students "also follow the Board's specific regulatory requirements pertaining to provision of telehealth" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2026a).
The Board's FAQ for associates and trainees answers the travel question for registrants. A trainee or associate who is traveling out of state may provide services to a client in California, and count the hours, if "The supervisor makes an assessment and deems it appropriate (for Trainees, at the discretion of the school program and supervisor)," "The standards of practice for telehealth are met," "Supervision is provided by the California supervisor via face-to-face videoconferencing," and "All other requirements pertaining to Trainees or Associates are met" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025b, question 31). The same FAQ states that "There is no limit on the number of telehealth hours that can be counted toward the supervised experience requirements" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025b, question 30); the online practicum and hours guide covers how those hours are documented. An associate's telehealth clients also receive the associate-specific disclosures, the registered status, registration number, employer, and supervisor's license type, described in the AMFT employment rules guide, and the telehealth position must be a W-2 or volunteer position with the employer, since the employment rules in section 4980.43.3 do not change with the delivery mode.
What Are Interstate Compacts Changing?
For California therapists, nothing yet. An interstate licensure compact is a statute adopted in identical form by member states that lets a professional licensed in one member state obtain a privilege to practice in the others without a second license. The Board described the model to the Legislature in its 2025 sunset response: a compact "represents a legally binding agreement between multiple states to facilitate cross-state practice for licensed professionals without requiring them to obtain full licensure in each participating state," and "To participate in such a compact, a state must adopt model statutory language provided by a compact organization" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a). The same document states the position of the state: "California currently does not participate in any health professional licensing compact" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a). The Board listed its reasons: "Compacts have proven to be problematic and challenging for California licensees and regulatory programs alike, in terms of compact governance, enforcement options, parity in licensure qualifications, and other aspects of compact pathways," including that "Many licensing priorities in California may not be reflected in compacts, such as the ability for individuals in California to become licensed using an individual taxpayer identification number, rather than only a social security number" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a).
The three compacts that touch the Board's professions are at different stages. The Counseling Compact, for licensed professional clinical counselors, is issuing privileges to practice: "The Counseling Compact is live for licensees in Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wyoming," with Wyoming and Tennessee going live on August 31 and September 1, 2026, and "29 additional states and the District of Columbia are actively completing the steps needed to begin issuing and receiving privileges under the Counseling Compact" (Counseling Compact Commission, 2026). California is not a member; AB 2566 (Wilson) of 2024, which "would have codified the entirety of the Counseling Compact" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a), passed the Assembly 72 to 0 and died in the Senate without a hearing (California Legislature, 2024). The Social Work Licensure Compact had 22 member states when the Board wrote in April 2025, and AB 427 (Jackson) of 2025, which "would require California to join the Social Work Compact" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a), was held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee and died on January 31, 2026 (California Legislature, 2026g). PSYPACT, the psychology compact, lists California among the states that "have not enacted PSYPACT legislation nor do they have active PSYPACT legislation" (PSYPACT Commission, 2026). For marriage and family therapists there is no compact at all. AAMFT's licensure portability page explains why: "Compacts are very expensive to establish, often in excess of a million dollars," and "AAMFT has traditionally viewed compacts as too expensive for the MFT profession to undertake"; the association instead released a license portability model law in 2019 under which a board issues a full license to an applicant who holds "a valid and unrestricted license to practice as a licensed marriage and family therapist in another state or territory" and completes an application, and it notes that "California and New York (two of the more MFT populated states) have not yet participated in ANY healthcare compacts" (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 2026).
The consequence for a California LMFT is that no compact privilege is available in either direction: a California license does not travel to any other state through a compact, and a therapist licensed in a compact state cannot use a compact privilege to see a client in California. What exists instead is the pair of California mechanisms described above, the section 4980.11 30-day allowance for an out-of-state licensee's existing client and the SB 679 out-of-state pathway to a California license, and, for the California therapist whose client leaves the state, whatever the destination state allows. The Board told the Legislature that the compact question deserved study "particularly given the new pathways available to out-of-state providers to legally engage with California patients and clients and the ability for existing provider-client relationships to continue through temporary practice authority the BBS allows" (California Board of Behavioral Sciences, 2025a). A student who expects to practice across state lines should treat compact membership as a state-by-state fact to check each year, and should expect California to remain outside the compacts for now.
What This Means for Your Practice
Build the regulation into the paperwork and the first minute of every session. The informed consent should contain a telehealth section that records consent to the mode of care, the risks and limitations, the license or registration number and type, and the emergency resources near the client's usual location, and the client file should show that the Notice to Clients was delivered. The session note should open with the client's stated full name and the address where they are sitting, and the therapist should stop and reconsider when that address is outside California. Keep a written emergency plan for each client's location, verify identity at the first video session, and know who holds the records if the work runs through a platform. Before any client travels or moves, find the destination state's rule on telehealth by an out-of-state licensee, and put the finding in the record. For the training requirement, confirm that the three hours of telehealth law and ethics are certified by your graduate program or completed as continuing education before the licensure application. And for the compacts, check the member lists once a year and expect to hold a separate license in any state where a client regularly sits.
A Closer Look at One Program: Sentio University's MFT Track
The following description of one specific MFT program is offered as a concrete example of how a program can teach telehealth practice, not as a recommendation against evaluating other programs. Students should research multiple options and ask each one direct questions about how clinical skill is built and measured.
Sentio University, a nonprofit graduate school based in Los Angeles with a hybrid delivery model that serves students throughout California, offers a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy that meets the Board of Behavioral Sciences educational requirements for the LMFT. The program runs 20 months across 60 units, with weekly online classes and one intensive in-person residency at the start of each semester, in cohorts capped at 24 students at a 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio. It is designed around deliberate practice methodology and is described in peer-reviewed work as the first graduate psychotherapy program to thoroughly integrate deliberate practice, with roughly half of nearly every class session dedicated to active skills training rather than lecture (Rousmaniere and Vaz, 2025, p. 2).
Telehealth practice is the practicum itself. The 2026-2027 Academic Catalog describes the Sentio Counseling Center as "a 100% online non-profit center that provides accessible, low-fee counseling to diverse California residents," where students complete "at least 400 hours of direct clinical contact hours, at least 100 of which involve working with couples" (Sentio University, 2026b). Every one of those sessions is a telehealth session with a client located in California, so the consent, disclosure, location, and emergency-planning requirements of section 1815.5 are practiced from the first client forward under supervision. The catalog's MFT542 Ethical and Legal Issues course "covers the laws, regulations, rules, and prominent issues regarding ethical practice and legal responsibilities in marriage and family therapy, such as informed consent, privacy, confidentiality, boundaries, dual relationships, therapist liability, and mandated reporting" (Sentio University, 2026b). Sentio also integrates AI literacy training through its AI certification program for therapists.
Sentio is a small, newer institution, admits only applicants who are California residents or willing to relocate to California and who intend to license in California, and its alumni network is still developing. Prospective students weighing Sentio alongside larger or older programs should factor that into their decision. Learn more at the Sentio MFT program overview, the tuition and fees page, and the Sentio FAQ page.
Making Your Decision
California's telehealth rules are few and specific: the client's location decides the law, consent to telehealth is documented before the first session, the client's name and address are taken at the start of every session, emergency resources near the client are on file, privacy law applies in full, and no compact carries a California license across a state line. A therapist who builds those steps into the consent form and the opening minute of each session has met the regulation. If you are still choosing a graduate program, ask how its practicum teaches telehealth practice and whether students learn the consent and location requirements with real clients under supervision. Program websites describe clinical training in similar language regardless of what is actually happening in classrooms and supervision rooms. Ask every program you are seriously considering whether you can attend a live or online class session before enrolling, and ask to speak with current students and recent graduates about how supervision and skill development function in practice. Reputable programs should welcome the request. Hesitation or refusal is informative on its own. Trust what you see in a classroom over what you read in promotional copy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does a telehealth session take place under California law?
At the client's location. Business and Professions Code section 2290.5 defines the originating site as the place where the patient is located, and 16 CCR section 1815.5 requires a current California license or registration for telehealth with any client physically located in California. The therapist's own location does not decide which law applies.
Does a therapist need a California license to see a client who is in California by video?
Yes. Anyone providing marriage and family therapy by telehealth to a client physically located in California must hold a current and active California license or registration. The one exception is section 4980.11, which lets a therapist licensed at the independent level in another state treat an existing client visiting California for one period of up to 30 consecutive days per calendar year after notifying the Board.
Can a California LMFT see a client who is traveling or living in another state?
Only if that state allows it. Under 16 CCR section 1815.5(e), a California licensee or registrant may provide telehealth to a client in another jurisdiction only if the therapist meets that jurisdiction's requirements and the jurisdiction permits telehealth delivery. The Board places the duty to check with the other state on the therapist, and California belongs to no compact that would supply the authority.
What consent does California require before telehealth?
Before the first telehealth session the provider must inform the client about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent to it as an acceptable mode of care, and the consent must be documented. The Board's regulation adds that the therapist must explain the risks and limitations of telehealth, give the client the license or registration number and type, and document efforts to identify emergency resources in the client's area.
What must a therapist do at the start of every telehealth session?
Verbally obtain and document the client's full name and the address of their present location, assess whether the client is appropriate for telehealth that day, including their psychosocial situation, and comply with the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act and HIPAA's security standards for the session and the records.
Can an AMFT or trainee provide telehealth in California?
Yes. Section 2290.5 counts associates and trainees functioning under section 4980.43.3 as health care providers, and section 4980.43.3(i) authorizes them to provide telehealth within the scope of practice. Associates follow every requirement of section 1815.5; trainees practice under their school's supervision, and the Board recommends that they follow the same requirements. A traveling associate or trainee may see California clients if the supervisor approves and supervision continues by videoconference.
Is California part of a counseling, social work, or psychology compact?
No. The Board reported to the Legislature in 2025 that California participates in no health professional licensing compact. The 2024 bill to join the Counseling Compact and the 2025 bill to join the Social Work Licensure Compact both died, California has no PSYPACT legislation, and no compact exists for marriage and family therapists.
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