Rules of the Tennessee Board for Professional Counselors, Marital and Family Therapists and, Clinical Pastoral Therapists — Introduction

RULES OF TENNESSEE BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, AND CLINICAL PASTORAL THERAPISTS 665 Mainstream Drive Nashville, TN 37243 Chapter Title

0450-01 …………………………………………………..General Rules Governing Professional Counselors

0450-02 …………………………………………….General Rules Governing Marital and Family Therapists

0450-03 ……………………………………………….General Rules Governing Clinical Pastoral Therapists

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY Original chapter 0450-01 filed October 9, 1986; effective November 23, 1986. Amendment to rule 0450-01-.06 filed March 1, 1990; effective April 15, 1990. Amendment to rule 0450-01-.06 filed September 20, 1990; effective November 4, 1990. Original rule 0450-01-.09 filed October 19, 1990; effective December 3, 1990. Amendment to rule 0450-01-.06 filed December 10, 1990; effective January 24, 1991. Repeal and new chapter 0450-01 and original chapter 0450-02 filed April 29, 1992; effective June 13, 1992. Amendment to rule 0450-01-.10 filed June 10, 1994; effective October 28, 1994. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.10, 0450-02-.04, and 0450-02-.10 filed October 18, 1995; effective January 1, 1996. Amendment to rules 0450-01-1-.01, 0450-01-.04 through 0450-01-.06, and 0450-01-.10 filed April 16, 1996; effective June 30, 1996. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.08 and 0450-01-.09 filed June 18, 1996; effective September 4, 1996. Amendment to rules 0450-02-.01, 0450-02-.04, 0450-02-.05, 0450-02-.06, 0450-02-.08, and 0450-02-.09 filed August 20, 1996; effective November 2, 1996. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.06 and 0450-02-.05 filed January 29, 1998; effective April 14, 1998. Amendment to rules 0450-02-.05 and 0450-02-.06 filed December 7, 1998; effective February 20, 1999. Original Chapter 0450-03 filed December 30, 1998; effective March 15, 1999. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.19, 0450-02-.19 and 0450-03-.19 filed August 13, 1999; effective October 27, 1999. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.07, and 0450-02-.07 filed January 31, 2000; effective April 15, 2000. Original rules 0450-01-.20, 0450-02-.20, and 0450-03-.20 filed February 10, 2000; effective April 25, 2000. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.06, 0450-01-.07, 0450-01-.12, 0450-02-.06, 0450-02-.07, 0450-02-.12,

0450-03-.06, 0450-03-.07, and 0450-03-.12 filed July 31, 2000; effective October 14, 2000. Amendment to rule 0450-01-.01 filed December 13, 2000; effective February 26, 2001. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-02-.04, and 0450-02-.10 filed November 21, 2001; effective February 4, 2002. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.03, 0450-02-.05, 0450-02-.06, 0450-02-.08, and 0450-02-.13 filed April 10, 2002; effective June 24, 2002. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.09, 0450-01-.12, 0450-02-.01, 0450-02-.05, 0450-02-.09,

0450-02-.10, 0450-02-.12, 0450-03-.01, 0450-03-.09, and 0450-03-.12 filed April 30, 2002; effective July 14, 2002. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.06, 0450-01-.10, 0450-01-.13, 0450-02-.06,

0450-02-.13, 0450-03-.06, and 0450-03-.13 filed August 16, 2002; effective October 30, 2002. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.05, and 0450-01-.10 filed October 30, 2002; effective January 13, 2003. Amendment filed 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.06, 0450-01-.07, 0450-01-.12, 0450-02-.05, 0450-02-.06, 0450- 02-.07, 0450-02-.12, 0450-03-.08, and 0450-03-.12 filed July 16, 2003; effective September 29, 2003. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.12, 0450-01-.13, 0450-02-.12, 0450-02-.13, and 0450-03-.12 filed July 30, 2003; effective October 13, 2003. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.07, 0450-01-.08, 0450-02-.08, and 0450-03-.08 filed September 4, 2003; effective November 18, 2003. Stay of effective date filed November 7, 2003 by the Board for Professional Counselors, Marital and Family Therapists, and Clinical Pastoral Therapists for rules 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.07, and 0450-01-.08. The new effective date for these rules is January 17, 2004. Amendment to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.02, 0450-01-.10, 0450-01-.12, 0450-02-.12, 0450-03-.01,

0450-03-.03, 0450-03-.04, 0450-03-.05, 0450-03-.06, 0450-03-.07, 0450-03-.08, 0450-03-.09, 0450-03- .11, 0450-03-.12, 0450-03-.13, 0450-03-.15, 0450-03-.16, 0450-03-.17, and 0450-03-.19 filed July 21, 2004; effective October 4, 2004. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.15, 0450-02-.15, and 0450-013-.15 filed August 25, 2004; effective November 8, 2004. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.07, 0450-02-.06, 0450-02-.07, 0450-03-.07, and 0450-03-.08 filed October 6, 2004; effective December 20, 2004. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.12, 0450-02-.12, and 0450-03-.12 filed October 18, 2004; effective January 1, 2005. Amendments to rules 0450-02-.01 and 0450-02-.10 filed December 28, 2004; effective March 13, 2005. Amendment to rule 0450-02-.04 filed January 26, 2006; effective April 11, 2006. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.05, 0450-02-.05, and 0450-03-.05 filed March 17, 2006; effective May 31, 2006. Amendments to rule 0450-03-.08 filed July 27, 2006; effective October 10, 2006. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.06, 0450-01-.12, 0450-01-.15, 0450-02-.06, 0450-01-.12, 0450-01-.15,

0450-03-.12, and 0450-03-.15 filed March 23, 2007; effective June 6, 2007. Original rules 0450-01-.21, 0450-02-.21, and 0450-03-.21 and amendments to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450- 01-.03, 0450-01-.19, 0450-02-.01, 0450-02-.03, 0450-02-.19, 0450-03-.03, and 0450-03-.19 filed April 17, 2007; effective July 1, 2007. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.03, 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.05, 0450-01-.10, 0450-01-.12, and 0450-01-.15 filed November 26, 2008; effective February 9, 2009. Amendments to rules 0450-02-.03, 0450-02-.12, and 0450-02-.15 filed November 26, 2008; effective February 9, 2009. Amendments to rules 0450-03-.03, 0450-03-.12, and 0450-03-.15 filed November 26, 2008; effective February 9, 2009. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.01, 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.07, 0450-01-.08, and 0450-01-.10 filed October 25, 2012; effective January 23, 2013. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.04, 0450-01-.05, and 0450-01-.12 filed January 7, 2014; effective April 7, 2014. Amendments to rules 0450-01-.12, 0450-01-.13, 0450-02-.12, 0450-02-.13, 0450-03-.12, and 0450-03- .13 filed May 14, 2019; effective August 12, 2019. Amendments expired pursuant to Chapter 653, § 1 of the 2020 Public Acts, effective April 2, 2020, and the rules reverted to their previous statuses.