Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 309.133: Requirements for licensure -- Licensure without examination --

Reciprocity.
(1) The board shall issue a license as a licensed professional art therapist to any person
who files a completed application, accompanied by the required fees, and who
submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at least twenty -one (21) years of
age, demonstrates professional competency by satisfactorily passing the required
examination, is a registered art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy Credentials
Board, Inc., is a board certified art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy
Credentials Board, Inc., and has:
(a) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in art therapy that includes six
hundred (600) hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited
institution and has completed an additional one thousand (1,000) client
contact hours of postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision; or
(b) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in a related field, has a
minimum of twenty-one (21) semester hours of sequential course work in the
history, theory, and practice of art therapy, has completed seven hundred (700)
hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited institution, and
has completed an additional two thousand (2,000) client contact hours of
postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision.
(2) The board may approve on a case -by-case basis applicants who have a master's
degree or a doctoral degree from nonaccredited institutions.
(3) If an applicant has met all of the requirements for licensure except satisfactorily
passing the required examinatio n, the applicant shall be scheduled to take the next
examination following the approval of the application.
(4) The board may issue a license to an applicant without examination if the person
possesses a valid regulatory document issued by the appropriate examining board
under the laws of any other state or territory of the United States, the District of
Columbia, or any foreign nation that in the judgment of the board has requirements
substantially equivalent to or exceeding the requirements in this section.
(5) The board may set criteria for continuing education and supervisory experience.

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KRS Chapter 309

Reciprocity.

(1) The board shall issue a license as a licensed professional art therapist to any person

who files a completed application, accompanied by the required fees, and who

submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at least twenty -one (21) years of

age, demonstrates professional competency by satisfactorily passing the required

examination, is a registered art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy Credentials

Board, Inc., is a board certified art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy

Credentials Board, Inc., and has:

(a) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in art therapy that includes six

hundred (600) hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited

institution and has completed an additional one thousand (1,000) client

contact hours of postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision; or

(b) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in a related field, has a

minimum of twenty-one (21) semester hours of sequential course work in the

history, theory, and practice of art therapy, has completed seven hundred (700)

hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited institution, and

has completed an additional two thousand (2,000) client contact hours of

postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision.

(2) The board may approve on a case -by-case basis applicants who have a master's

degree or a doctoral degree from nonaccredited institutions.

(3) If an applicant has met all of the requirements for licensure except satisfactorily

passing the required examinatio n, the applicant shall be scheduled to take the next

examination following the approval of the application.

(4) The board may issue a license to an applicant without examination if the person

possesses a valid regulatory document issued by the appropriate examining board

under the laws of any other state or territory of the United States, the District of

Columbia, or any foreign nation that in the judgment of the board has requirements

substantially equivalent to or exceeding the requirements in this section.

(5) The board may set criteria for continuing education and supervisory experience.

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