Section 4757.24 | License as art therapist or music therapist.
(A) The art therapy professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license as an art therapist to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and meets the requirements established under division (B) of this section.
The music therapy professional standards committee of the board shall issue a license as a music therapist to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and meets the requirements established under division (C) of this section.
(B) To be eligible for a license to practice art therapy under this chapter, an applicant shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Be at least eighteen years of age;
(2) Have attained a master's degree or higher degree from a graduate program in art therapy that one of the following applies to at the time the degree was conferred:
(a) The program is approved by the American art therapy association or its successor organization;
(b) The program is accredited by the commission on accreditation of allied health education programs or its successor organization;
(c) The board considers the program to be substantially equivalent to a program approved or accredited under division (B)(2)(a) or (b) of this section.
(3) Have completed at least two years of postgraduate supervised clinical experience in the experience requirements that the art therapy credentials board, its successor organization, or an equivalent organization recognized by the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board required for an individual to become a registered art therapist at the time the experience was completed;
(4) Have a board certification in good standing with the art therapy credentials board, its successor organization, or an equivalent organization recognized by the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board;
(5) Have satisfied any other requirements established by the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board.
(C) To be eligible for a license to practice music therapy under this chapter, an applicant shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Be at least eighteen years of age;
(2) Have successfully completed an academic program with a bachelor's or higher degree in music therapy approved by the American music therapy association or its successor organization;
(3) Have passed the examination for board certification by the certification board for music therapists or its successor organization or obtained certification as a music therapist by that board on January 1, 1985;
(4) Be currently certified as a music therapist by the certification board for music therapists or its successor organization.
(5) Have successfully completed a minimum of one thousand two hundred hours of clinical training, with at least one hundred eighty hours in preinternship experience and at least nine hundred hours in internship experience, if the internship is approved by the American music therapy association or its successor organization, an academic institution, or both.
(D) Within sixty days after receiving the information described in division (B) or (C) of this section and receipt of proof of compliance with section 4757.101 of the Revised Code, the appropriate professional standards committee of the board shall issue a license to practice as an art therapist or music therapist as required under division (A) of this section.
(E) This section does not apply to members of other professions licensed, certified, or registered by this state while performing services within the recognized scope, standards, and ethics of their respective professions.
Last updated October 4, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Available Versions of this Section
- October 3, 2023 – Enacted by House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly [ View October 3, 2023 Version ]